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« September 2004 | HOME | November 2004 » October 2004 Wow Read this.... October 31, 2004 Mosh Here are some images from the Eminem "Mosh" video. October 30, 2004 Well, he's only the governor When I ran against the man, it took me awhile to learn how to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger's name correctly, too. But you'd think the L.A. Times would have learned it by now.... October 29, 2004 Blatant Here's how the scam works: Let's say I want to reduce votes from Republicans in my state in the next election. So I choose a heavily Republican region with a lot of new voter registrations. Using the public voter registration... October 29, 2004 Watching the watchers From Common Cause: WASHINGTON – Common Cause, the national non-partisan advocacy organization, announced today that it will provide information, updated throughout Election Day, on voting trouble spots in key states, based on its voter alert line, 1-866-MYVOTE1 and on-the-ground monitoring.... October 29, 2004 Videotaping voter suppression Vidvote.org has the right idea. It's much, much harder to be a rat bastard in public nowadays, and some old-school Republican thugs could be in for a rude awakening. It may not just be rumors and text reports about their... October 28, 2004 The party of Lincoln The Rove M.O. GOP Voter Suppression in Ohio Anyone headed from L.A. to a swing state this weekend?... October 28, 2004 Values Every dramatist knows it: If you want to reveal who a character really is, you make him desperate. A person will claim to have all sorts of values, but when extreme pressure forces a decision, that's when his real values... October 27, 2004 "The Beast": The Industry The opportunism commences.... October 25, 2004 GOTV efforts From the mailbag: MyPollingSite.com "The website's goal is to help voters find their polling place. Our database of online poll locators has been slowly growing. We now can get 63% of the US population the exact location of their polling... October 25, 2004 Wired: Bush fired; Tired: Bush wired What Dan Gillmor said: If he was wired and is lying about it now, then he flat-out broke the rules to which he agreed, and that would be shameful. Again, however, I'm totally unconvinced -- and remain unconvinced even after... October 23, 2004 P2P Politics "We built this peer-to-peer site to enable people to send personalized messages with links to video clips about this election."... October 23, 2004 Saint Paul Paul, who invented Christianity, wrote 80,000 words about worshipping Jesus but seems not to have any idea that Jesus was a real person who walked the Earth. He did, however, have ideas about how a good Christian should live. Some... October 23, 2004 Confidence man An example of faith's wonder-working power: In the Oval Office in December 2002, the president met with a few ranking senators and members of the House, both Republicans and Democrats. In those days, there were high hopes that the United... October 17, 2004 The Beast of Foolishness Guess who the Beast of Foolishness is? Dr. Terry Watkins of Dial-the-Truth Ministries has the answer.... October 16, 2004 Pressure on Sinclair working A Maine TV station loses three advertisers. Josh Marshall says sources tell him Sinclair has been surprised by the extent of the backlash. Here's the list. The easy way: Take thirty seconds and pressure all of Sinclair's advertisers right now.... October 15, 2004 Mystery solved It's an iBulge: (via Cult of Mac)... October 15, 2004 The Regular New Slashdot-style site from the Downhill Battle folks.... October 14, 2004 Bush vs. Bush From the final debate: KERRY: Six months after [Bush] said Osama bin Laden must be caught dead or alive, this president was asked, "Where's Osama bin Laden." He said, "I don't know. I don't really think about him very much.... October 13, 2004 Andrea Mackris sues Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment Andrea Mackris sues Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment. October 13, 2004 Does this heresy make me look gay? My favorite quote from the Free Republic thread on The Beast: Brian Flemming appears to be another vile gay maggot who hates Christians and pushes the gay agenda constantly: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Brian%20Flemming%20Gay Mary!... October 12, 2004 The carrot: Reverse boycott If punishing advertisers for supporting Sinclair Broadcast Group is a good idea--and it is--then doesn't it make sense to reward advertisers for pulling out of Sinclair? How to reward these businesses of conscience? Free advertising. I use the Google AdWords... October 12, 2004 Sinclair Broadcast Group advertiser boycott See here and here for why it's important to pressure Sinclair Broadcast Group right now and very hard. If you are not in one of their regional markets (I'm not), you can go here to send a polite email to... October 12, 2004 WorldNetDaily on "The Beast" Hoo-boy. Popular arch-conservative site WorldNetDaily (home to the lovely Ann Coulter, among other pleasant folks) leads off today with a "WorldNetDaily Exclusive" story on The Beast: A movie whose purpose is to prove that Jesus Christ never existed and that... October 12, 2004 "Will the highways on the internet become more few?” Yes, but there will be more internets, so it will all balance out. Bushisms is now on DVD. (Also at Amazon.)... October 12, 2004 Audiogate builds steam It's almost certainly false, but the theory just won't go away. New sites: MysteryBulge.com Bush Wired Both sites have links to the supposedly incriminating Fox News video of a press conference in France. Check it out. It's really, really obvious... October 12, 2004 L.A. area event plugs A couple things worth seeing in L.A.: Hollywood Hell House. Only three weekends left to catch this. It's a brilliant piece of theater--a Christian "hell house" done straight from the instruction book. Plus: Free donut holes. Read Nora Murphy's take... October 11, 2004 Your tax dollars at work I wonder what legitimate research projects did not get funded because the federal government is supporting crackpot studies like this: In 2001, two researchers and a Columbia University fertility expert published a startling finding in a respected medical journal: women... October 10, 2004 Rose-colored glasses A reader asks me about this: ST. LOUIS - John Kerry's campaign finally found a catchy symbol to counter the beach flip-flops that President Bush's campaign has used to great effect to mock the Massachusetts senator for shifting positions. In... October 09, 2004 The "mystery bulge" Salon's top story today? The "mystery bulge." Mystery? How about "kevlar vest"? Or a back brace. The Bush camp has issued a denial. UPDATE: The New York Times says the Bush campaign and the White House have ruled out the... October 08, 2004 Earpiece theory not going away Speaking of conspiracy theories flourishing on the internet. Personally, I think it's bullshit.... October 07, 2004 Conspiracy In "Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Internet ," Carol Morello discovers that the primary movers behind some conspiracy theories about the 9-11 attacks also lend credence to alien abductions, time travel and psychic phenomena. Oh, and other wacky ideas: David... October 07, 2004 Cheney checked Fact: I own the domain factcheck.info, for reasons I can't remember. I don't have time to do anything with it, or any ideas really. But if you do, and your idea is malicious, contact me and I'll give the factcheck.info domain to you. October 06, 2004 20,000 dead people... ...wish the New York Times had written this editorial when it mattered: Of all the justifications that President Bush gave for invading Iraq, the most terrifying was that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of developing a nuclear bomb that... October 05, 2004 President Bush wore an earpiece at the debate? Man, this story is almost as infuriating as that rumor about the President's nose job that some jerk on one of the internets started. For background, see the website Is Bush Wired? or the Salon article. My thoughts... Arguments against:... October 04, 2004 Arts Project Contest Now there's another way to get a free iPod. And lots more. An announcement from the Center for the Study of the Public Domain: You are invited to enter: The ARTS PROJECT CONTEST WHAT: A contest to create a 2-minute... October 01, 2004 And that's why he's smiling Before the debate, I was confused by this odd sentence in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Kerry and Bush campaigns: At the start of the debate, the moderator shall declare, "But they say it's really what you do with... October 01, 2004 Debate #1 I thought Kerry was prepared, confident and well-spoken. He looked like a commander in chief. On the other hand, Bush looked alternately scared out of his mind and irritated that he was being held accountable for his presidency. He came... October 01, 2004

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