Monthly Archives: October 2006

Underdogs With A Bite

The thought occurred to me last week as I was watching the pre election commercials on the local news for candidates that in our excitement to cover Federal and certain state and local races there are a lot of candidates … Continue reading

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What He Said

My friend SteveAudio has a post over at Corrente today that is well worth reading and then some. He discusses the recent Worldwide Press Freedom report issued by Reporters Without Borders and a separate article from Amnesty International about bloggers … Continue reading

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Donita’s Debut Podcast

I’ve been editing the column Donita Sparks does called The Spin I’m In on Firedoglake.com every Friday since it began in June and just yesterday we finally launched her first podcast. We had been planning to launch this for a … Continue reading

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Friday Night Videos

So this second installment of Friday Night Videos I figured I would expand the post a little and give you more than one video to make this a worthwhile time spent on ye olde blog here. There is no real … Continue reading

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Students for a Free Tibet

I had an opportunity to have a conversation with my friend Matt Browner-Hamlin about the work he does as an organizer for Students for a Free Tibet, one of the leading organizations in the Tibet independence movement. Matt just got … Continue reading

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Sean Hannity’s Gay Dating Service

Conservative Fox News and Fox Radio talk show host Sean Hannity has a dating site on the Internet named HANNIDATE which has been the subject of much comedy for several months on many blogs and talk shows. One gay journalist … Continue reading

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“…and margaritas on the portal at sunset, a must!”

I am up very late at night as is my usual custom, and sometimes, even in our hundreds of channels universe, there just isn’t anything to watch on TV that will guarantee a drowsy effect for me. This inevitably leads … Continue reading

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Lying 101

The first lesson of lying is to never tell a lie that is so obvious as to be a farce upon it leaving your lips. The Preznit today went on This Week on ABC and gave the worst performance yet … Continue reading

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What If?

I read a lot of blogs and have been seeing a triumphant strain of blogging taking place lately that has not been seen…well, ever. Blogs came into their own as an overwhelmingly Democratic-leaning medium during the darkest days for the … Continue reading

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Strange Bedfellows

What do the ACLU, People For the American Way, John Birch Society and right wing ideologue Pat Buchanan have in common? They’ve all publicly condemned the Military Commisions Act of 2006, aka the Constitution Killer. Political Cortex has a post … Continue reading

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