Uneasy Rhetoric

Very few people read this blog; nevertheless, I’ve been hit by auto-spammers. Ironically, all of the articles to which this person hocking the blue pill tried to comment were way back in the archive.
So far, Wordpress’ comment moderating with the spam words sent all 25-30 messages to me for moderation. This [...]

Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) has a blog. This should be interesting to watch unfold, as she tries to keep the discussion on “one topic at a time.” If you live in her district (Assembly District 14), you should check it out.
For the rest of us, we should see how this political blog works [...]

In a recent post on Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin talks about the fact that the military is using blimps to help pinpoint targets on the ground. Apparently, these aerostats, “worked so well at detecting and identifying enemy forces and objects that Defense Department officials want to buy more of them” (from a Federal Computer [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law two important bills. One requires paper trails for electronic voting and the other resets California’s primary election back to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June.
California becomes one of 17 states requiring a paper trail, but is too late for this election, which, at least for the [...]

Kevin Drum is a brave soul. In a post that is one part regret and three parts common sense, he indicates that he is probably voting against Proposition 71, the stem-cell research measure. This is not an easy position for a progressive to take.
His reason is straightforward:
…it’s lousy public policy for the electorate to [...]