Measure A
I received five glossy full-color flyers in favor of Santa Clara County's Measure A, a land-use initiative that puts limits...
Archive for Politics
California bond measures
The San Francisco Chronicle recommends voting yes on all the bond measures. Excerpt: The governor backs the bonds, and so...
Video roundup, part 1
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a...
Don’t forget to vote
Several states are having primary elections today; some of the ballots also feature state and local measures, as usual. If...
Moderating journal comments?
Every two or three weeks, I get a comment on an old entry in this journal, from someone who's just...
Complexification
Not unexpectedly, I only made it to one panel yesterday, and only about 15 minutes of that. It was a...
Patriotic fiction
I am not a patriot in the usual sense of the term. Humanity and the world are generally more important...
Fighting words
Something Vardibidian said about this whole cartoon-inspired violence mess reminded me of something--although the below is at best a side...
Lockpick Pornography: The Novel
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first...
Curses
Luke H. just pointed to a New Yorker humor piece from mid-2004, "New Details Surface," by Paul Simms, that made...
Austrian political “porn” billboards
The Times Online reports that the Austrian government is sponsoring an art project featuring sexually explicit political posters: specifically, there's...
Torture
I'm having a hard time following all the recent developments in US politics surrounding Guantanamo Bay and torture. Maybe you...