Month: October 2006

You probably got it, that email from the DNC on matching your money. It is different though that other appeals. Actually there is something about it that made it the most monied email from the DNC since 2004. Here is what Paul Loeb, of Soul of a Citizen, said: But it was more than the…

It isn’t that I’m not a big fan of Jonathan Raban, I’m sure he’s a very nice man and writer. His apparent concern for rural growth issues and septics is something that he and I have in common. That said I wish people would stop doing this: Jonathan Raban=Seattle. The Stranger did it (in my…

Crazy like a fox, and he makes the most ironic statement of the night. At least for me. I was only able to catch the first few minutes of the debate before I actually had to work on something today, but I was able to catch responses to the first question: Who did you vote…

Oh, ha ha ha: …Johnson entered my classroom and stated the following: When asked by a student, what would you change about, Washington? His reply: “I’d get rid of all the Democrats.” What’s the hardest thing about, your job? “Having to work with Democrats.” ‘He went on to disparage two of the Democratic congressmen from…

In 2002 Tim Sheldon gives $10,000 to a Republican campaign committee that tosses the state senate to the GOP. In 2004 he votes for and supports the Republican candidate for governor. In 2004 he heads up the local chapter of Democrats for Bush. This year he fails to get the endorsement of any local Democratic…

Here are some fact type thingies: 1. Libraries are among the most valued and trusted of public institutions. I don’t have any citation to back this up, but they have to be up there, way above elected officials or 2. Conservatives have tapped the social structures at mega-churches, recognizing that social conections are the most…

Out and about today, I was able to squeeze in the last 20 or so minutes of Podcasting Liberally, which covered the cerfuffle this week about a handful of newspapers across the region writing checks to the Initiative 920 campaign (here and here). Goldy and crew were worried that because all of these papers were…

Democratic candidate for the WA 8 is coming to Olympia: On October 28th we have an opportunity to take a direct action to change the direction of our country. Darcy Burner will be in Olympia for a fundraiser at the Home of Paul and Beth Berendt in conjunction with a swing through the southern end…

Up until about May I was involved in my neighborhood association, that had come together to try to stop the upsurge in development in south-east Olympia. This part of Oly had been pretty rural up until recently, and a lot of long time residents had a hard time understanding why this muddy wet part of…

From the PDF: …that is because it shifts power away from the center of organizations out to the edges. Millions of us now can speak on a much more level playing field than anything that has ever existed before. By definition that is bad for elites and insiders. Which can’t be good news for the…