Daily Archives: November 8, 2006
A Picture of Interest Only to True Blog Dorks
Posted on November 8, 2006 43 Comments
I’ve noted before that I and Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo were in the same high school class together (Webb School of California, ’87), and here’s some documentary proof for you that I can’t believe I actually haven’t posted before: a picture of me and Josh from our high school days. Josh is the […]
Heckuva Job, Rummy.
Posted on November 8, 2006 83 Comments
Bye, now. Incidentally, what I find interesting is that when I went to Wikipedia just now to find out who this Robert Gates fellow is, the entry was already updated to note he’d been nominated by Bush to be Secretary of Defense. Welcome to the 21st century, where even reference materials update in real time. […]
Election Observations 2006
Posted on November 8, 2006 123 Comments
Some early morning, off-the-cuff observations about the elections: * What do I feel about the 2006 elections? Like my country has taken some kind of big goddamn sanity pill, that’s what. I don’t want to oversell the importance of this particular election, but at the moment I feel like it’s probably the most important election […]
Because I Haven’t Talked About Me Enough Recently
Posted on November 8, 2006 31 Comments
Allow me to take a moment in all this election dorkery to make mention a few things going on with, uh, me: 1. There’s a lovely review of The Android’s Dream over at Bookslut: The Android’s Dream is a galloping caper that is very funny and very satisfying. Often caper books fall apart at the […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying