Month: September 2006

Andrew’s post from today on “catty blogs” reminds me of something we should all be doing. Reading right wing blogs and keeping them honest. Maybe they’ll do the same thing to us. I started reading Thurston Pundits awhile back, and started righting writing about it when I noticed that my comments on the blog weren’t…

There should be no independent research in our state funded universities, especially when they touch upon topics that matter to some people. And, if a university happens to research something that politicians don’t like, they should be punished. Or so says Andy over at Thurston Pundits. He also thinks interrogatory sentences no longer need to…

I’ve been reading Applebee’s America the last few days, and I want to write down some thoughts. Here is one of the first. I was wrong about the exurbs, or at least the “community” part of the exurbs: These are people that seem to have a few major commitments. First of all, their family. I…

I like what the relish packet has to say. And, he is much better looking than Mr. McGavick.

First, they took out UCLA, now the Huskies are taking on another visitor from the south, property rights initiative 933. Back in 1995 the UW issued a killer study to a similar initiative, pointing out the millions it would cost taxpayers. OFM released a study pretty much saying the same thing about I-933 last week,…

Over at the 35th LD blog there is a lengthy and (it reads at least) angry post on open primaries and how a lot of Republicans must have jumped over to vote D to push Sheldon last week. I don’t doubt that, but I have a problem with the authors contentions. So, I left a…

Radio Open Source is putting together a wiki on which to base their coverage of the 2006 elections. They’ve already done a couple of shows so far, one on “Meaning of CT” and on the 2006 elections overall. Open Source airs on KUOW at 9p, and live on the internet at 4p. I’ve tried to…

I don’t write about foreign affairs all that much, although the topic probably takes up nearly a third of my reading list. My interest was rekindled by this book, and it carried along by an entire category of blogs, including this one and this one. My tepid nature toward expressing any opinion on foreign affairs…

Carl Ballard of Washington State Political Report has launched his new blog, and it looks to be a good one: Q: Do I know you from some other blog? A: It’s possible. I used to write here. And like everyone else, I write on Kos regularly. And elsewhere with less frequency. Q: What does EFFin’…

Back in 1995 when Dan Wood was shilling for R 48, the grandfather or I-933, the University of Washington came out with a study that pointed out how much that property rights referendum would cost. The 1995 study, which said the refendum similar to I-933 would cost between $3.8 to $11 billion a year, is…