I was sad that when I was near Winthrop, WA this past weekend I was not able to break away to check out the Fairy & Human Relations Congress 2008 that was going on. I’m glad I remembered the website address so I could read more about it.

Hat tip to Moveon.org

It is infuriating me that the spineless Democrats are not taking a stand on FISA and are actually putting their own political spin on how it’s a “compromise” (read: “capitulation”, as noted elsewhere in the blogosphere) and a good thing. Here are several key questions I had been thinking myself, but not in such clear terms:

In response to a moveon.org phone campaign, this is the message that I communicated to Obama’s campaign staff.

Got this link via a colleague and it has some of the most detailed, up-to-date data and analysis on the polling data and cruft coming from the punditrocracy about who’s going to win what and how they can win it. One to keep an eye on this election season. These will be some long months ahead! Right now it shows that Obama has an 88.6% chance of winning the election if it were held today.

I had watched one episode of NCIS early on in its life and just thought that the writing was _horrible_. I knew then that I didn’t need to watch any more episodes.

Here’s a handy bash script that I use to quickly batch transcode flash audio-only files into ogg/vorbis for playing on my Cowon D2:

IMEEM - what’s on your playlist?

This points out how the Democrats aren’t capitalizing on this issue which is working against the Republicans. Show how the Democratic party is about freedom and the Republicans are about unitary executive and a police state.

A running family joke, but I laugh every time I hear this.