The Goodspeed Update

Petition Spot - Preserve AATA Bus Service to Ypsilanti
Ann Arbor area bus service considering cutting service to neighborhing city.
(tags: buses politics activism petition)

DC Voting Rights - Stamp Act Congress
DC group is trying to build support for voting rights for the District by stamping money.
(tags: DC politics)

Ok, I lied. I’m not going to try my hand at a review of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, mostly because Amazon.com already has 155 of them. Instead I thought I’d just note a couple thoughts on it. I was inspired to re-read it after I picked up a copy of a book […]

I finally hooked together my del.icio.us account with this blog so each day it will post any links I post to that service for the day. We’ll see how it goes. Scott tried this and stopped because it was taking over his blog. Since I’m a less habitual user of del.icio.us I’m not worried about […]

DCist is sponsoring another Unbuckled concert this Thursday. Unbuckled is an occasional concert series where we invite a couple local acts to perform, charge just enough to cover costs and a modest fee for the band, and generally have a good time. This time the bands are The Hard Tomorrows and Olivia Mancini and the […]

I just added a link to my profile on dodgeball.com to the “personal” section on the right hand side, bringing the number of social networking site profiles I have listed to 11. I’m not sure how many people I know who use the service in D.C., but if you are one by all means click […]

From Shaw Main Streets listserv:
Queen of Sheba Restaurant, offering Ethiopian and American food, will hold a grand opening event on Saturday, February 18, 2006, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 AM. Full bar service will be available, thanks to a special event ABC permit. Live music will be offered during evening hours, with vocals […]

The ACLU is sponsoring a live webcast on Monday, February 20th at 11 a.m. EST on the topic of presidential power. The presenters include:
* Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
* John W. Dean, former White House counsel
* Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard
* Jim […]