Uneasy Rhetoric

Recently, I’ve started to get a fair amount of trackback spam on this blog. Thankfully, Spam Karma has been catching it, so it rarely shows up. However, unlike the other comment spam which is almost exclusively sexual/fetishistic with some pharmaceuticals thrown in, the trackback spam has been crossing the line into nauseatingly vulgar, [...]

Eyes Wide Open, an exhibit consisting of pairs of combat boots for each solider who died in Iraq (in some cases the soldier’s actual boots) and sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers) will be in Sacramento this coming week:
Sacramento, CA
March 29-31, 2005
Where:
State Capitol grounds
All Wars Memorial
13th & N Streets
Sacramento, CA

Full details.
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For a while I was getting tired of Wonkette. Who wouldn’t? Gossip about “famous for DC” people just gets dull after a while.
Then I read this about the GOP’s “hipster/young people” interview program Off the Record and laughed. This program is a fluff piece extraordinaire, with two white-bread young ladies looking for [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger and others are pushing hard on reforming the way California’s legislative districts are drawn. There are a number of proposals but most share some common characteristics. Even though it is clichéd, I am going to draw on the title of a non-Schwarzenegger tough-guy movie to discuss, briefly, my feelings on this [...]

Posts like this one get my ire up. The poster complains because Spam Karma, a very effective anti-spam plugin for WordPress, determined that he might be a spammer and made him jump through additional hoops.
I understand the frustration, and as a Spam Karma user who has had friends get stuck in SK limbo, [...]