Thursday, September 8th: Citizen Academy Workshop DC VOTING RIGHTS “Taxation Without Representation!â€? We all know this as one of the rallying cries for advocates of American independence from Great Britain in the eighteenth century, but what is it still doing on the license plates of DC vehicles today? Some tourists may think that as the […]
D.C. Neighborhood Listservs
I didn’t note last week, but I was quoted by the Post in an article about neighborhood listservs: Many Neighborhoods Find a Voice Online. … A few sites seek a broader view of the city, including DCist, a Web site that features a daily news and sports roundup and reviews of rock bands, trendy restaurants […]
Anti-War Activists Get their Act Together
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 […]