We’ll be at the Doug Fir with Steve Novick, DJs Gregarious and Flight Risk, and special guests like Mayor-elect Sam Adams. The TVs switch on at 6 pm.
Election 2008
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Krumping You Can Believe In
Hat tip to David Schmader in Seattle. The best line is at the end…
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You Couldn’t Make This Up
A disturbing story was doing the rounds, most notably on the Drudge report yesterday, about a John McCain campaign staffer in Pittsburgh being attacked by a mysterious 6’4″ black man who allegedly carved a “B” in her cheek and told her “you’ll be a Barack supporter.” It turns out, she made the whole thing up. […]
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Democrats Who–Not Surprisingly–Don’t Support Republican Gordon Smith
Hat tip to Carla Axtman at BlueOregon, for fact checking Republican Senator Gordon Smith’s latest press release, touting the Democrats across Oregon who’ve lined up behind him, in the race against Jeff Merkley. Axtman, who worked for Merkley during the primary campaign, notes that several of the Democrats on Smith’s list don’t actually support him. […]
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Teachers Should Be Paid On Performance
Reluctant as I am to engage with the critics of our endorsement of Measure 60, which proposes performance-based-pay for teachers, I’ve been watching Amy’s defense of our endorsement with interest since last week, and felt the urge not to justify it per se, but to explain it a little more. My mother was a teacher, […]
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“As a white blues guitarist here in NY City I too have seen reversed racism.”
Johnny Lang, is that you? Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama yesterday. Wonkette has collected a smattering of the rational, educated responses to Powell’s decision, as offered by the anonymous conservative hordes at Free Republic. Definitely worth a read if you like things that are both funny (in a kind of depressing way) and creepy (in […]
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Brewhaha: Big Ballot Bash Edition
My ballot arrived in the mail yesterday. But as eager as I am to fill it out, I’m going to hold out until Thursday. That night at Backspace, the Mercury and the Bus Project’s monthly Brewhaha is a good old-fashioned ballot party. You’ll have a chance to mingle with other voters and compare notes on […]
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Dirty in District 35
The race in House District 35 has gotten dirty. First, there was the tonythephony.com site against Republican Tony Marino. Now, there’s a YouTube page with a video mocking incumbent Democrat Larry Galizio. I can only imagine it’s coming from his opponent, but there’s really no way to track a YouTube account.
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Breaking: John McCain Funny.
For example: “Maverick I can do, but Messiah is above my pay grade.” This week’s New Yorker also features a quiz asking who wrote a book relating an incident in which “Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, ‘You’re getting a little thin up there,’ and McCain shot back, ‘At least I don’t plaster on […]
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I Think I Am A Pro Abortion Extremist.
Wednesday’s debate raised several interesting theoretical questions that I haven’t had time to post about till now because, shortly after the debate, I was sucked into a seven-hour death spiral spent reading right-wing blogs (more on that later). Anyway, several interesting theoretical questions. Like: does clean coal even exist? And: What would more intimidate the […]
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For the Record: Mike Delman did NOT hit Matt Davis
In our endorsement of Mike Delman for County Commissioner, we alluded to his much-discussed temperamental nature (it’s not quite owing taxpayers $1.8 million, as his opponent does, but it’s also not something you tout on your campaign literature). But just to be clear, when we wrote that “Mike Delman… is a temperamental guy who nearly […]