Bin Laden endorses Kerry?
Sunday, October 31st, 2004Why is nobody saying it: The Bin Laden Tape has all the marks of a Karl Rove stunt. Fuck them.
Archive for October, 2004
Why is nobody saying it: The Bin Laden Tape has all the marks of a Karl Rove stunt. Fuck them.
Dark facts about the last four years
Saturday, October 23rd, 2004Very nice 100-item list from The Nation:100 Facts and 1 Opinion. The opinion is this: "If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United States and the world." Nice list, good references.
Bush spooge
Thursday, October 21st, 2004One of my favorite political bumper stickers: We're all Wearing the Blue Dress Now
Another patch of turbulence
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004Another burst of too-busy chaos. Ack. My online/hybrid course starts tomorrow, so the work of prepping is almost done. Actually doing it won't be so bad. After that, the talk I'm giving Thursday night ("Commander Data and the Possibility of Machines With Minds" - a pretty ...
Where’s the dis? I like lesbians
Friday, October 15th, 2004Lawyers, Guns and Money gets the whole media foam-up about Kerry's mention of Cheney's lesbian daughter (who'd already come up in the VP "debate") exactly right, in But the bigotry is real; here's the theme he goes with: How, might you ask, did Kerry "dis" Mary Cheney? Let's look at the ...
Maybe it was the spittle
Thursday, October 14th, 2004The talking heads were acting like Debate III was a draw, but the people knew better, it seems: Kerry the Decisive Victor in Third Debate Polls by CNN, CBS and ABC all gave Mr Kerry the edge in the encounter, which focused mainly on domestic policy.... A CNN poll taken immediately ...
What debate were they watching?
Thursday, October 14th, 2004All the media-heads said "both were good; kind of a draw" after the debate. Quick polls have Kerry very marginally winning, even with some oversampling of 'Publicans. My view was a little closer to The Poor Man's: Wow. I have a horrible track record in reading these things, but ...
Shit I’m old
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004I'm in the doctor's office this afternoon, and I realize that the muzik isn't so bad -- oldies, but Sam Cook and Percy Faith rather than Johnny Mathis and Perry Como. Then it dawns on me that I think it's "good" oldies because they're 40 rather than 50 years ...
“Derrida Dies” marks appear on many pages
Sunday, October 10th, 2004Jacques Derrida died night before last from pancreatic cancer; he was 74. Not to spit on anybody's grave, but Brian Leiter gets it right: Alas, he is being referred to as a philosopher. I am, needless to say, with the vast majority of philosophers in thinking Derrida's work of a ...
