I added some things to the sidebar. I changed the “Blogroll” to be more like my old sidebar blogroll with the flags. The new “Election Aught Seven” category is for candidates that I’m supporting in this upcoming election. Under links, I limited who I listed to elected officials who actually are in my area, plus […]
Further evidence that this humble blog is extending its tentacles and infesting all corners of our state’s mainstream media (as well as mixing metaphors whenever possible), the Tucson Weekly ran a short piece in its Skinny column about the changes here.
Last week, an issue of the insider Yellow Sheet also ran a bit quoting this blog about […]
Over the last few days of finalizing this blog’s new “do,” I have gotten advice from Eric Lybeck and Tony Cani. Eric has been a friend since high school; Tony is a more recent friend that I know through political life. Eric has been very good about steering me to “plug-ins” that make this blog […]
As you have no doubt seen, this site has changed. New address, new layout…same old me.
I decided I had outgrown Blogspot. This page looks nicer too, I think. I’ll have a bit more freedom to mess with this layout and make it “individual.” I will probably be changing the banner up above. I also hope […]
Yesterday’s Tucson Citizen carried an Anne Denogean column about Sen. Jack Harper’s bill to mandate that candidates for legislature must submit to a drug test upon filing. The column was inspired by my post last week about the bill, and it even quotes my witty and brilliant prose on the subject.
When I make the big […]
Last year, I published a top ten list of folks who had been mentioned on my blog. I’d be remiss if I didn’t do that for 2006 as well:
Rep.-elect Gabrielle Giffords - 92 mentions
Rep. Randy Graf - 85 mentions
Gov. Janet Napolitano - 67 mentions
Rep. Raúl Grijalva - 67 mentions
Sen. Jon Kyl - 65 mentions
Patty Weiss […]
The most popular posts this year, as determined by the number of responses:
Oops! - 62 comments
Pederson Retroactively Endorses Dean for President, I Guess - 57 comments
CD 8 Polling Numbers Straight from the Wick Newspaperin’ Empire - 56 comments
Dueling Press Releases - 51 comments
Howard Dean Endorses…? - 47 comments
I Don’t Know Albert, We Don’t Know Anyone […]
I disabled “Pop-up Politicians.” Many of you, particularly Firefox users, have complained about how slow the page is loading and these complaints seem to correspond to when I started using Pop-up Politicians. In retrospect, I don’t know how much using it brought to the page, since a link to the member’s home page would be […]
Greg Patterson flatters me too much over at Espresso Pundit by saying that newly elected congressman Gabrielle Giffords should hire me at her office. Well, thank you for the sentiment, Greg, but there are plenty of very well qualified people in line in front of me.
In fact, there has been a development on that point. […]
I came back from Portland just in time to run for Chair of the District 28 Democrats. I lost to Mohur Sidwa, who is a bit of a newcomer to the party but not new to organizing and campaign work. She’ll do a good job, and was actually gracious when she won and said nice […]
Well, I’ll be in the great Northwest for a few days of over-strong coffee and endless rain. I hear it’s hipper up there though.
I’ll be flying on US Airways. I usually bring my copy of the Benedictine Handbook with me, it’s got a psalter and prayers in it. I’d better be careful though. Apparently, prayer […]
In the Arizona Province of Blogistan, a few of us have formed a confederation of sorts and are using the ActBlue service to raise money for some of our candidates. You will see an easy way to contribute on the right hand column. Those of us participating are Wactivist, LoftyDonkey, AzNetroots, and Geo’s Precinct. Each […]
I was interviewed on Friday by the Boston-based PRI radio program Open Source. The also interviewed Daniel Patterson and Michael Marizco. They wanted our opinions about the CD 8 race and some thoughts in general about the politics and culture of Southeastern Arizona.
Here is the rub: the program is distibuted nationally to NPR stations, but […]
Those of you that post comments to this blog will find that I have added a “verification” to the comments section. When you comment, you will now be asked to type a word (really random letters)
I know this will be inconvienient for you, but it seems to be the only practical way to cut down […]
For some reason, three advertisements got posted as comments to my last entry. I have deleted them. They were all posted anonymously. I like y’all being able to do that, since it seems to maximize the number of you out there that can post. I hope I can continue to do this. I can easily […]
I have resisted the urge to say anything on here about my brother’s troubles. Unfortunately, the Arizona Republic decided to run a smart alecky piece about them. Not only was it expressly an off the record conversation between my brother and the reporter, Mr. Sherwood (Sherwood saying “this is off the record” I guess is […]
In my entry entitled “Johnny’s Last Christmas,” I neglected to include the best speech ever at a YDA convention. Since I no longer will be able to go to conventions (unless I am very pathetic…), here it is.
We met in Charleston, West Virginia in 1995. We had a female president then, Jody Buckley, and it […]
Being that I am an old man, I am “aging out” of the Young Democrats of America. This week’s convention in San Francisco will be my last.
My first convention was in Merrillville, Indiana in 1993. I have not attended all the meetings since, but I have only missed one convention in that time.
Here is a […]
The Arizona Daily Star, in its further quest to avoid any consequential coverage of this year’s city council race, has been running a “Know Your City Council Candidates” feature.
This is somehow supposed to be helpful. Never mind that your typical Greg Hansen story on some high schooler who may or may not play for the […]
Jeff Simpson asks about the title of this blog, so here is a bit of a history lesson for y’all.
In 1884, New York Democratic Governor Grover “Grover the Good” Cleveland was running against Maine Republican Senator James “Blaine from Maine” Blaine. The race was supposed to be tight in New York state, where the Tammany […]
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