Entries from February 2003

American Feudalism

Date February 26, 2003

I don’t want to abolish government, I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. [Grover Norquist]
Glen reacted rather strongly to Dennis Miller’s suggestion that protesters comparing Bush with Hitler should be physically beaten. And while I always cringe when someone [...] Read more »

Economist Shmonomist

Date February 26, 2003

Hah. The folks over at Tapped take a look at the 250 so-called economists who have signed on to the Bush economics plan.
I suppose we will be told economics departments are skewed terribly to the “left” (I also known as “biased in favor of reality”), so they couldn’t find enough economists “unbiased” enough to [...] Read more »

I used to be a designer.

Date February 25, 2003

You’ld never know it from the incredibly dull design on this weblog, but I used to be a designer. I’m actually pretty good with Photoshop (but not this good. (Dave, I could have done without that this morning.))
I learned most of my design on my own, so there’s a lot of history and theory I [...] Read more »

Infiltration

Date February 25, 2003

We’ve heard about Republican-fudged voter rolls in Florida and Republican-jammed Democrat phone banks elsewhere around the country during elections. Is it so far-fetched to think there might be closet Republicans (*coughliebermancough*) in the Democratic party? I certainly think so.
You may recall that Bush built a major portion of his campaign on Al Gore’s lies. How [...] Read more »

Tip Jar

Date February 24, 2003

Other people have wish lists; I’ve gone ahead and put in a tip jar (on the right) asking for cold hard cash. I figure it’s more honest than using Orbitz popup ads, really. So if you feel inclined, please toss some cash in the jar. The goal is $360; that’s my annual hosting costs.
Note: [...] Read more »