Rosa Parks

October 25, 2005 – 12:14 am

Rosa Parks, hero, died in her sleep last night. She was 92. If I had an eighth of the courage she did when confronting injustice, I would die a righteous person.

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Fitzmas Bingo

October 19, 2005 – 7:41 pm

Fitzmas Bingo cards! Thank you Dori! If you don’t know what Fitzmas is, go read dKos.

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Go Maureen!

October 12, 2005 – 11:45 pm

My friend Maureen represents Liberal Dems in Thursday’s council elections for Folkestone (UK). Good luck!

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GUBU

October 11, 2005 – 11:23 pm

GUBU is an acronym standing for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. Surprisingly, this came about to describe an infamous event in Ireland, and not the current state of play in American politics.

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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

October 9, 2005 – 6:28 pm

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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

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I just read
Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a graphic memoir of the two months the French-Canadian animator spent in the North Korean capitol, supervising a team of animators at the [...]

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Defining Expendible

October 8, 2005 – 3:00 pm

[via Charlie Stross] Lunchtime conversation: Being #3 in Al-queda is like being a “creative vice president” at a Hollywood studio.

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Late September 2005 Zeitgeist

September 28, 2005 – 10:53 pm

Over in the comments at Making Light, writer Elizabeth Lynn wins the trifecta:
I want to sit on Trent Lott’s porch and watch Tom DeLay being devoured by a giant squid.

Annotating links added.

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Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate

September 14, 2005 – 10:53 pm

The Guardian interviews writer Kim Stanley Robinson. His current books are about a near future America still refusing to deal with climate change. In the climax of Forty Signs of Rain, the tidal surge from a hurricane floods the Nation’s Capital.
It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the [...]

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Lt Ken Ballard

August 17, 2005 – 9:46 pm

Before tonight’s vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan (q.v.), Karen Meredith, who also lost a son in Iraq, thanked us for coming.
She leaves for Camp Casey this weekend, where Sheehan and supporters wait for President Bush to speak with her and other bereaved parents.

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Red Sweaters

August 17, 2005 – 9:14 pm

Nina Rosenberg’s looking for people to help knit small red sweaters, one for each American solider who has died in Iraq, for an art project.
One of the people at the MoveOn vigil for Cindy Sheehan in Mountain View held a placard advertising the site. She said that the sweaters are easy to knit and an [...]

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Billable Hours

August 4, 2005 – 8:51 pm

Some friends who are rasing kids in California are tired of the status quo.
The schools lack nurses, psychologists, gym teachers, art teachers, administrative assistants, custodians, music teachers, librarians, and so many more positions. It’s all been cut, and the parents have filled in. In June, we will present a bill to you, Governor Schwartzenegger.

And, if [...]

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You got something against Jimmy Stewart, Senator?

May 2, 2005 – 12:00 am

Scott Reynen considers a Frank Capra movie, and wonders what Senator Frist has against Senator Smith.

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Respect and Represent

March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am

Katha Pollitt gives props to Avedon Carol in her column in The Nation.

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Broken House Email

March 15, 2005 – 12:00 am

Last week I sent a note to my Representative, Anna Eshoo, asking her to support a bill to update how the EPA computes gas milage estimates.
This morning I got a message back from her office.
Thank you for contacting me in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Huh?

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JavaScript Activism

February 17, 2005 – 12:00 am

The US Senate Democrats put together a web tool that’ll calculate what they think the effect of Bush’s Social Security plan would be on your benefits.
According to it, mine would fall 17%.
Now, modulo the question of privatizing Social Security, I think the tool’s a great example of web activism. Go to the page, enter your [...]

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