Nevada Politics - We need to care now?

A curious things has occurred in the political landscape recently. Nevada has become an important player in national politics. First, Harry Reid, D-NV, became Majority Leader when the Dems spanked the Repubs in the mid-term elections. Then the DNC, led by Howard Dean moved the Nevada Caucus into an early slot next year, thus giving Western Dems more say in the whole primary thing.
So it's no surprise now that this has become a big deal. The Nevada Democratic Party (which doesn't do anything without Sen. Reid's blessing) arranged a televised debate for Dems prior to the scheduled Caucus. This debate will be carried by... Fox News. Always to friendly to Democrats. (check out these stories - here.) This has set off a firestorm in "left blogistan" and has gotten lots of folks involved (moveon.org, etc) in pressuring the Nevada Democratic Party to cancel the debate.
Robert Greenwald, director of "OutFoxed", "Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price" and "Iraq For Sale", has created a short film (~2 min) on Fox News' attacks on Barack Obama - here.
FoxAttacks.com

Crazy. Wild and wacky stuff.

Takei loves Timmy Hardaway

As if anyone doubted that.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

The future of the Dallas Cowboys, Mr. Tony Romo. NSFW

Al Franken for US Senate

Like or hate him (I happen to like him), you can't ignore the powerful force he will be during the campaign...



http://www.alfranken.com/

For you Windows Vista fans...

the Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard upgrade charts.

Here

Peyton Manning - Super Bowl MVP

Ladies and gentlemen, your Super Bowl LXI MVP - Peyton Manning.

Horowitz and Rachmaninoff #3

Thanks, YouTube!

Vladimir Samoylovych Horowitz
New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta conducting

1st Movement


2nd Movement


3rd Movement

It's snow-bumper cars!

Check out this video of slipping and sliding near SW20th and Salmon this morning (that's just south of PGE Park).

KGW video

Why do they hate America?

Turns out our President has succeeded so well in making Government so inept that they are selling military surplus to Iran.
Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Surplus Sale - ABC NEWS

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where are our modern-day heroes?




Here is a link to his speech "Beyond Vietnam", hosted by The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

Jake Gyllenhaal

If you weren't already in love with Jake, here's the definitive reason...

Non-inductive charging

This is from the Consumer Electronics Show via the boys and girls at Gizmodo. This looks really cool. Non-inductive charging of devices via a charging strip. Totally wireless (well, for the devices, anyway). Small device charging strips in March and a laptop version in June. Cool.

Amy v Martha

I love Amy Sedaris. She is brilliantly wicked. Here she is on Martha Stewart's show.

Why I Am A Liberal And A Progressive And A Democrat

by digby

I am a liberal because it is the political philosophy of freedom and equality. And I am a progressive because it is the political path to a better future. And I am a Democrat because it is the political party that believes in freedom, equality and progress.

I lifted this directly from Digby because he said it better than I ever could. Thanks, Digby!
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Support the Troops! Support the Troops! Support...

the troops. Oh, wait. If that were true, things would be a lot different. Check out this poll conducted by that liberal rag, "The Military Times". It appears that there are more troops now who disapprove of W's conduct of this war that who approve. Only 41% said that the US should have gone to war with Iraq. That's compared to 65% in 2003. Let's see what the rightwing nut-o-sphere says about that.

Back to work, I guess

So, I've had an entire week off from work. I really enjoyed it. I genuinely like my job, but having the week off was so nice. I could so be a kept man. If only Steve would get rich quick. Or I could win the lottery. I'd be okay with that, too.

If art made money...

It would look like this...

McDavid

Zunetastic - not

ANDY IHNATKO over at the Chicago Sun-Times doesn't like the Zune. Not even a little bit. In fact, he says "I've spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face."

Ouch.

I need a picture

So I really like Bloglines, but...

it doesn't allow people to post comments, and readers must read posts on Bloglines. So, I'm going to start posting here again. Or, judging by how many posts I have so far on this blog, I'm going to really start posting here.

I'll get the hang of this, eventually.