Interesting and Helpful: 07/01/2005

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Helpful: Hackett for Congress

Shoulda put this up earlier. Drop some coin for an Paul Hackett, an Iraq War veteran running for Congress in Ohio. The election is Tuesday, so every dollar helps get out that vote!

Friday, July 29, 2005

Furry Friday

Too busy to post anything, so enjoy this picture from Flickr's Furry Friday. Maybe this weekend I'll get around to a Lolla wrap-up.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Big news

Big news
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

The Onion has the story.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

The pies of Texas

The pies of Texas
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Har dee har har.

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Sunday, July 24, 2005

Heat is a battle.

Heat is a battle.
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Guess who's losing?

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The Ponys

The Ponys
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

They were good.

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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Chicago skyline

Chicago skyline
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Ain't it purty?

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Lotsapaleople

Lotsapaleople
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

Cake is playing now. this is the closest we can get.

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We made it.

We made it.
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

M83 is first up.

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Liveblogging Lollapalooza

Indy, Cindy and I will be at Lollapalooza today. Look out for live audio and photo blog updates.

Interesting: New Texas Motto

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Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

We saw this at an outlet mall in Plano last weekend. At first I thought this was just another interpretation of the "Getting Things Done" personal productivity philosophies of David Allen.

Turns out it has much more blue collar roots.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Interesting beer

Interesting beer
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

In between Shiners, there was this.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Helpful: Texas has great Mexican food

So I did get some Shiner and Taco Cabana last weekend. Can't ask for anything more than that from the state of Texas.

Tomorrow, a conference for work, then some corporate team-building.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Audio Blogger test.

Do you hear anything?

Update: So it works. Audioblogger. It's free. You can call a number and have your recording pop up as a blog post in just 20 seconds or so. I think this will come in VERY handy this weekend.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Attention Shiner Bock

I'm going to be drinking you very soon. Look out Dallas!

Josh Marshall on Rove

Link.

And nothing was done amiss? If Rove et al. didn't do anything wrong, why have they spent two years lying about what they did? No law was broken? Then what is Fitzgerald looking at? Why is a grand jury investigating Rove? A prosecutor like Fitzgerald, a Republican appointee, wouldn't be throwing journalists in jail unless he thought he was investigating a serious crime.

What's their answer to that? They have none. Rove runs the Washington Republican party, owns it. So it's anything but hold him accountable.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Helpful: Geek out!!

Challenging.

Interesting: Service warriors in action

Tip your waiter, and don't mess with the bouncer.

On second thought

The Town Hall experiment is over. The first Ann Coulter column was so ridiculous, my monitor nearly fried. Sorry, buddy.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Victory!

Victory!
Originally uploaded by kuzmatt9.

The green feather has been captured! Well done, Benson.

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New feature: Town Hall summaries

At a political Meetup last night, a friend recommended I start reading Town Hall, a conservative site, so I can stay in touch with how conservatives are framing issues. This, theoretically, may help me make more compelling arguments that will resonate with conservatives too.

I will try it. I've signed up for the daily newsletter, and I look forward to some serious issue debate on this site. For now, though, I will instead do a quick summary of the first story I read.

From the most annoying 20/20 correspondent ever, libertarian John Stossel.

Summary: Liberals are not as tolerant as they claim to be, because they don't care about my crappy book.

Helpful: Inside the Plame case

Scott, here's my #1 progressive political blog these days.

Helpful: Christmas is coming

Hint, hint.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Helpful: Don't hold your breath

Looks like Rove ain't going anywhere.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Interesting: depends on how you define "nothing"

AP Link: For two years, the White House has insisted that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a CIA officer's identity. And President Bush said the leaker would be fired.

But Mr. Bush's spokesman wouldn't repeat any of those assertions Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer saying his client spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified in a newspaper column.

Scott, I know your friends at The Corner are going to say that Karl didn't say her actual name, just "Wilson's wife" or "Alerie-Vay Ame-Play" or some crap like that. Sorry. Federal prosecutors don't spend 2 years in investigation and send journalists to jail and then get distracted by such nonsense. Rove sold out an agent for political points during wartime. Time for him to collect his Presidential Medal of Freedom, then go directly to the grand jury box.