“A Touch of Wonder,” indeed.
Remember The Cosby Show episode with Stevie Wonder, “A Touch of Wonder”? Here’s the best scene from that episode, where the Cosbys are in the studio with him, and he’s sampling their voices to incorporate into a song. What a mind-blowing moment that was, though sort of a slow burn, my first exposure to the [...]
An extinct ibex brought back from the dead.
An extinct Ibex was brought back to life via cloning. The last one went extinct in 2000. The new one died from a lung disorder. Details, details—where’s my mammoth burger?
Our Democratic nation.
Gallup provides a sobering map of political affiliation, by state. I hate to spoil the punchline, but it’s a sea of blue. Republicans have just four states: Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska (barely), and Alaska. Not only could you travel across the country without once hitting a Republican state, I’m guessing folks do so routinely. This [...]
Motion to Quash in Garrett v. Better Publications.
Today I submitted a Motion to Quash the subpoena issued to me in Thomas L. Garrett, Jr. v. Better Publications, LLC. It took a couple of weeks of legal research to learn how to quash a subpoena, to study the subpoena to look for legal flaws, and then to manage to write this three-page document. [...]
1920s-1960s Richmond photo archives on Flickr.
Eighth and Broad, 1954.
Visiting the Library of Virginia today, I saw a big poster advertising that they’re participating in The Flickr Commons. And, lo, they are. They’ve uploaded 314 out-of-copyright photos from their collections. Some of my favorite photos are the most mundane: a pump being repaired in Byrd Park, an enormous IBM mainframe in [...]
Harvard’s CMLP has got my back.
Harvard’s Citizen Media Law Project, a part of the Berkman Center, is my new best friend:
In perhaps the most blatant misuse of the subpoena power we’ve seen since the subpoena served on Kathleen Seidel of Neurodiversity last March, a lawyer for Thomas Garrett of Virginia has served a patently overbroad subpoena on blogger Waldo Jaquith, [...]
Wyatt Durrette on House Republicans’ tone deafness.
Republican and former candidate for Virginia governor Wyatt Durrette is puzzling over the tone deafness of House Republicans, looking specifically at their deeply foolish move of holding a 7:00 AM subcommittee meeting on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to kill two “good government” bills that have broad public support. House Republicans might have wised up [...]
A new study says mercury is commonly found in corn syrup.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minnesota-based nonprofit, recently conducted a study of off-the-shelf corn syrup and found that almost half of the samples that they tested contain mercury. One third of the HFCS-bearing packaged food and drinks that they tested contained the poison. The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda is apparently common [...]
RPV “dysfunctional.” News at eleven.
Back in June, RPV chairman Jeff Frederick named wealthy businessman Walter Curt the party’s finance chair. You’ll remember Curt as the guy who bankrolled the campaign of far-far-right candidate Scott Sayre against incumbent far-right Republican Sen. Emmet Hanger. Curt’s way out there on the fringe of the party, which is just where I like my [...]
I got subpoenaed.
I got subpoenaed. An area fabulist got nailed by the local weekly for trading on an invented story of his life. I wrote about it on my blog about Charlottesville, siding with the weekly, since the guy’s clearly been living a lie. Presumably as a form of intimidation, the guy’s subpoenaed me, and the subpoena [...]
Joe Stanley’s policy blog.
For in-depth policy discussion from a Democratic perspective, I recommend Joe Stanley’s new blog. In the past few days he’s written extensively about Del. Terry Kilgore’s power company regulation bill and the results of his meeting about the bill with the Association of Electric Cooperatives. Joe is with the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy [...]
Sen. Obenshain’s miscarriage criminalization bill.
Sen. Mark Obenshain is trying to criminalize miscarriages. Old-timers in the Virginia political blogosphere may remember when Del. John Cosgrove tried this in 2005. That was hoot. Maura Keaney had him on Nightline within days. Cosgrove had some cock-and-bull story about how the bill didn’t do that at all, accusing bloggers of making it [...]
Democratic Central closing.
Lloyd Snook is closing up shop at Democratic Central. Democrats are on top of the world. For those of us who function best when we’re down four runs at the bottom of the ninth, it’s a bit hard to get fired up.
His shoes were made for walkin’?
Unable to get a taxi, Brian Moran walked the six miles from the Capitol to National Airport after the inauguration. That’s impressive.
Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency?
We’ve just wrapped up the most awful eight years in at least a generation—probably more, but I’m not old enough to know for sure. Everything that could go wrong, did. Everything that President Bush could mangle, he did. It was planned incompetence, a looting of government by corrupt contractors, a gleeful demolition of the public [...]
robots.txt you can believe in.
Yesterday whitehouse.gov prohibited search engines from indexing 2,400 pages on their site. Today 0 pages are prohibited.
That really says it all about this transition, doesn’t it?
The Onion’s spot-on forecast of the Bush presidency.
This, the final day of the Bush presidency, seems like the day to revisit The Onion’s often-revisited January 17, 2001 article about Bush, “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’”:
“My fellow Americans,” Bush said, “at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that [...]
Werkheiser challenging Albo again.
Greg Werkheiser has announced, as expected, that he’ll be challenging Del. Dave Albo again. He ran against Albo in 2005, losing 48/52. But Albo’s the last man standing upstate; it’s Democratic territory now. It seems inevitable that the House Democratic Caucus and DPVA will pick this as one of the races they’ll want to target [...]
Help me rename part of Richmond Sunlight.
Richmond Sunlight has a menu item entitled “Minutes.” This is a terrible word to use because a) a lot of people don’t know what it means and b) that section also contains video, audio, and some other goodies soon. “Minutes” is so dry and unfamiliar that nobody clicks on it.
What word (or two) can I [...]
Comparing Bowerbank and Wagner’s fundraising.
Lloyd Snook contrasts the campaign fundraising reports for two of the Democrats seeking the nomination for LG:
Jon Bowerbank’s campaign has taken in $604,403.64. Of that, $195,259.31 came as loans from himself. He gave his own campaign $170,500 in cash. He claimed in-kind contributions of $117,663.10 for himself, and $38,000.00 from his [...]
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