This is just so rich. If it were a slice of cheesecake, I couldn’t take one more bite, really. “I have to say, the governor’s budget staff knows what’s going on with respect to the economy at any point in time. This was no surprise,” Gilmore told The Augusta Free Press. “For anyone to suggest …
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Miller wins VA House seat.
Though some recounting seems likely (and advised), it appears that Democrat Paula Miller has defeated Democrat Michael Ball in the 87th district special election, down in Norfolk. The gap? Just 92 votes out of 7,623 cast. That’s for the seat vacated by Republican Thelma Drake, after she replaced Republican Congressman Ed Schrock (VA-02) after he …
Christmasy.
It’s so freaking Christmasy out that I can hardly stand it. It’s 21°, the snow has been falling for three days, downtown Blacksburg (outside my window) is decked out in Christmas lights, and Dan the Automator’s remix of Dean Martin’s “Jingle Bells” is in heavy rotation on iTunes.
Tim Kaine’s got a website.
Lt. Governor Tim Kaine finally has a website for his campaign for governor — it just went live today. It’s not much to look at, but it’s something. It’s only six pages, and that’s generously counting the contact page and blank press page. Bafflingly, there’s no blog (how 1998 of him), the code isn’t valid, …
Rumsfeld isn’t going anywhere.
NBC Nightly News’ second story tonight is about the growing dissatisfaction with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld among the American public and Republican officials. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we just went through this earlier this year. Apparently, NBC lacks an institutional memory, because the 4-minute story (unusually long for network news shows) didn’t …
Provided we’re talking about WUVT, and not WTJU.
The wisdom of Strong Bad: College radio can pretty much be summed up in 5 words: Dead air, um, dead air.
Nothing but time.
My school transcript, as of today, makes it official: I have completed all requirements for graduation, save for the need for 18 more credit hours. I have jumped through all hoops that need jumping through, from the language requirement to the arcane legal courses, the remedial classes to the 400-level classes. (Much of the credit …
I’m done with exams.
Praise the Lord and pass the cornbread. Now I start packing. Saturday morning, we load the U-Haul, and Jill and I move back to Charlottesville.
Turnabout is fair play.
Great point by Jesse Taylor on Pandagon: If the GOP is going to be the party of ridiculous shit, we’ve got to be the party of “this shit is ridiculous”. Because, guess what? It’s what we actually believe. That’s some serious genius. I need to remember that.
Gilmore angling for Homeland Security?
Commonwealth Conservative thinks that former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore is angling for Director of Homeland Security. Let me explain to you exactly what Gilmore is trying to say, in laymans terms: Please, President Bush. I want to be appointed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. That about sums it up. I still don’t know …