It’s August. 22 days until the start of fall semester. Groan … Those of you who have some free time around 2100 Eastern, I’d suggest tuning into WGTE on the Web; for a public radio station, their Sunday night lineup is pretty eclectic. At 2100 is the locally-run Electronic Currents, which features surprisingly good electronic music; at 2200 Music from the Hearts of Space comes on for two hours of great study-time music. There used to be a cool world music show at 2000 called…
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New on Backwash: “Recall This”. A little discussion of the California recall procedure and how something similar that was being proposed in Canada got proven to be farcical by one of my favourite comedians.
You know, there’s nothing quite like finding out that your local Millionaire broadcaster is going to rebroadcast the first woman ever to win the million, then having your VCR suddenly decide that it doesn’t want to record anymore. Thankfully I ran to another VCR in the house and got it taped, but that was not a fun experience. (Yes, I know this is completely trivial, but these are the things that happen in my life.) Anyway, I headed to campus after that, and before class…
Interesting thread in the .forum about modern political debate. Normally I don’t so brazenly try to drive traffic to the .forum like this, but given the length of the response I just typed to Ville’s post, I figure I should just link to it instead of repeating it here.
Can I sue Ann Coulter for libel for calling me a traitor? Okay, barring that, I think someone on the left needs to do a counter-book called Scoundrels. As Samuel Johnson once said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” and I think someone needs to do an in-depth analysis of how the entire right wing — from Dubya and his minions in the legislature, to the right-wing media outlets like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News — have tried to portray liberalism, or, indeed,…