Month: May 2005

A diary over at dKos got me thinking about what it means to be a moderate, and what has happened to the whole idea of political moderation. In 1964, five years before I was born, Barry Goldwater made an infamous and damaging...

At a certain level, politics is more primal than most of us care to admit. I got an example of that this last campaign when in an attempt to win over my older sister to Johon Kerry. I listed my reasons she should vote against...

I was looking up some sites at the Wayback Machine and noticed that Fox News blocks the crawler that archives websites.  For those of you that aren’t familiar with the site, it’s a site that archives almost...

It’s been a long week. Seems like every time I turn around, some fool or another is getting into a new form of trouble, and dragging the good Lord’s name down into the mud with him. First it’s the Nuclear...

We know he blogs on Daily Kos but I didn’t know — maybe all of you did? — that he has his own blog too: ConyersBlog. Conyers links to his interview on the Stephanie Miller show today about the leaked memo and...