I went to the neighborhood post office today to mail off some tax forms. The wait was only about ten minutes. Not bad for a Saturday morning. Oh, I heard a clip of Bush’s radio address today in which he said, “Somewhere in the world, at this very moment, terrorists are planning the next attack …
Senator McCain’s anti-lobbyist screeds notwithstanding, he sure seems to take their advice. . . .when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every one was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, co-founded a …
Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, producers of that miserably addictive and confusing program called “Lost.” Tidbits: “By the end of the seventh episode, the audience will now know who the Oceanic 6 are.” “that was one of the first things we talked about when we got back to work …
It’s called “Eggtown,” for reasons subtle and unknowable in advance. Here’s Ryan’s post. You do know that he and Jen have started their weekly “Lost” podcast up again, don’t you? After each week’s post, the following one is a podcast of their thoughts about it. They did this for season 2, I think, but life …
Last night (5:36pm HST) the USS Lake Erie supposedly shot down that oh-so-threatening hydrazine-laden satellite (I’ve seen no physical evidence that it really did, which is why I use the word “supposedly”). I still wonder about the actual motives behind this action. In an online chat yesterday at the Washington Post, Ivan Oelrich, the Vice …
Via Kevin Drum comes this interesting blog post about Castro and his legacy. However much the aging revolutionary has done for his people, he refused ever to trust them ? to openly debate political questions, and to choose wisely in a genuinely competitive political system. Instead, it was Father knows best, on an epic scale. …
It was no surprise that Obama won the Hawai’i caucus; that was expected. What was not expected was the high number of people who showed up to vote. Excitement about Obama, who graduated from Punahou School and represents Illinois, raised interest in last night’s caucuses to record levels. Party officials had expected a larger-than-normal turnout …
The political class in this town is positively giddy. Hawai’i’ is actually having a nationally meaningful election (ok, caucus) this evening. Usually we’re an afterthought; in fact, in 1980 Carter conceded to Reagan before our polls had even closed, which may have driven down our already anemic turnout. Not this time. Caucus turnout has never …
Via Making Light’s Particles comes this astonishing list: A Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions (I’d have called it Imaginations), from weightlessness in 1638 (Francis Godwin) to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (in 2000 — Larry Niven, and under development even now). It’s damned amazing. Heinlein thought of a cellphone in 1953 in Assignment in Eternity. “How …
If I were a speechwriter for either Democratic candidate tasked with writing a short text to be delivered on this President’s Day, I’d give a few bullet points about Bush’s depradations (wiretapping, signing statements, the destruction of habeas corpus, the national security state), and then I would be sure to work in something along these …
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