With Cyndi Sheehan getting tons of media in Crawford and ANSWER and United for Peace playing nice for their little rally in D.C. at the end of the month (complete with a free concert I’m looking forward to), it seems things are finally coming together. This Post article from today’s paper seems like a good […]
Conservatives Planning March on Washington
The website RightMarch.com is planning a protest to support John Roberts in September, on the date when his hearing is scheduled to begin: RightMarch.com is now a leading sponsor of this HUGE counter-protest, which will take place on September 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2005 in our nation’s capital. … All of these hundreds of […]
i500 Update
Since I told you I purchased a Samsung i500 cell phone I’ve had a couple weeks to try it out. Here’s what I’ve discovered: It’s a tri-band phone, meaning it works on Sprint’s network, but also the other carriers when Sprint is not available – at least Verizon for sure, but possibly others as well, […]
ACLU of Michigan Planning Conference
The ACLU of Michigan, where I worked as an intern in 2001, is planning their first-ever statewide conference in Lansing next April. They held a couple highly successful student conferences, and I attended one, so I was excited to hear the news: The ACLU of Michigan and friends are planning our first statewide conference for […]
DCist: We Name Pandas
A Bloomberg news service article cites DCist (specifically, Catherine Andrews’ post) as the inventor of the nickname “Butterstick” for the National Zoo’s baby panda: Web logs, such as dcist.com, nicknamed the cub “Butterstick” because zookeepers described him at birth as being “about the size of a stick of butter.” According to Chinese tradition, the cub […]
More on Roberts
The Post has this today: Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. consistently opposed legal and legislative attempts to strengthen women’s rights during his years as a legal adviser in the Reagan White House, disparaging what he called “the purported gender gap” and, at one point, questioning “whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to […]
What Should Bush Read?
Dear readers: I need your help. I’ve been asked by the associate editor page editor of the Washington Examiner for a list of a few books I would suggest to George W. Bush to read during his summer vacation. What are your ideas? Drop em in the comments.