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Today documentary filmmakers Robin Chin and John Grimes dropped by Pixar to show their film and to answer questions about their documentary film There’s Something About W, which you can now view in its entirety from their website. In addition, we also screened a showing of Stolen Honor, the film which the Sinclair Broadcast Group […]

Enjoy carving those large wintertime vegetables!

Contributed by Tom Duff: Q: What’s the difference between Iraq and Viet Nam? A: GWB had a plan to get out of Viet Nam.

Damn, I just got the opportunity to watch Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire and boy, did he totally, brutally dominate Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. Whatever the two hosts thought Stewart was going to do on the show, it was clear who was calling the shots and directing the debate. Stewart was actually very articulate […]

Excellent!

Wherein your skeptical Democratic host rambles for 25+ minutes on the outcome of last night’s (for lack of a better word) “debate”. Warning: fans of the President may be offended. Actually, there are better words. Perhaps “farce” or “camera op”.

Try reading this chilling report of one reporters experience during the RNC: 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC. Maybe we should start spelling Amerika with a K.

It’s great to see a truly great man tear Zell Miller a new one.

Stuff by Samuel Clemens, a good antidote to watching the RNC.

I’m sitting in my living room on a Sunday morning, and the urge to yap about something political has just become too strong to ignore. This week has given me another political realization: the realization that I’m really not proud to be a Democrat. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not going to go all Zell […]

BoingBoing reports that Joshua Kingberg was arrested at the RNC in New York for operating his bicycle mounted dot matrix printer. It’s an enormously cool hack: you basically ride the bike and it leaves a message in its trail in the same way a dot matrix printer works. The message is written in a water […]

Bush TV ad targets Kerry on intelligence issues Boy, if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black.

While driving in this morning, the airwaves were abuzz with the news that the California Supreme Court had ruled to annul 4000 same sex marriages that were performed in San Francisco. The court chose not to rule on the constitutionality of the law which defines marriage as a union between man and women, but instead […]

Except for my occasional bleats about intellectual property rights, I try not to write very much about politics in my blog. It’s not that I don’t have political opinions: I do, and many of them quite strongly held. It’s simply that I write this blog mostly for my own amusement, and talking about politics and […]

In the discussion on metafilter regarding the Brown Equals Terrorist, someone posted a nice link to a summary of the rights of photographers. It’s not clear that this document is up to date with respect to the recent Supreme Court decision in Hiibel v. Nevada. In trying to determine what the actual rule of law […]