The planned launch of space shuttle Discovery is becoming controversial and the firing of an employee that expressed safety concerns is an example of how politics expands outside of what we talk about here every day into the ‘real world’. Martha at Musings has the inside scoop on the firing.
I stumbled across the ‘Working America’s’ [...]
06.27.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Funny what a lot of bad press will do to an elected officials position on, well, anything.
Remember how Rep. John Carter (R-TX) and other Texas Rs stalled the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, despite support from R leadership and the White House? Remember how Carter was quoted as saying, “I don’t think we [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
It’s Monday morning and I’ve already found someone with enough stupid to last me through the week. I present to you Don Goldwater, nephew of Barry Goldwater. Don’s running for governor out in Arizona, and he’s come up with an innovative way to build a wall on the border AND stop immigrants in [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
I’ll go ahead and join in the growing number of people saying how the Supreme Court could rule pretty soon on the Texas redistricting case.
Seeing how there’s 5 more days until July, I think it could happen that it would be safe to say that there’s a chance that there might be a ruling pretty [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
The 2006 Miss Texas USA was crowned last night. Magen Ellis of Houston was crowned at the event in Laredo. Magen’s platform for this year includes awareness and education about childhood obesity and screenings for ovarian cancer.
I have no idea what my platform for this year is going to be. Maby I’ll have some more [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Pic from LoneStarTimes via Robyn Hadley’s OutThere column (subscription req’d).
Y’all probably read already about how Rick Perry received campaign donations for pennies from angry Houston taxpayers, but I just had to post this pic of one of the checks. It was the brainchild of the DJs from Houston’s KSEV radio station. I gotta [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Some Nobel Prize dude in East Timor resigned his government post by sending the Prime Minister a text message. They then conversed via text message some more to talk about what went wrong. Those crazy East Timorians, LOL.
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Over the weekend the chancellor of UC Santa Cruz committed suicide. That is tragic and I don’t mean to make light of the situation, but this is the lead paragraph in the AP’s writeup, emphasis mine:
“Everybody’s stunned,” Santa Cruz Mayor Cynthia Mathews said of the death Saturday of Denice Dee Denton, 46. “It’s sad [...]
06.26.06 | Uncategorized | admin
And in other news, all of Hollywood is infected with communism. Rep. King (R-NY) wants the government to sue or imprison The New York Times for reporting on stories that show us our government is completely out-of-control. When the NYT reported that the government is snooping into our bank accounts, he said the Times [...]
06.25.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
The Village Voice is brutal! This is the cover of their ‘queer issue’ for Gay Pride Month. One word: Ew.
06.25.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome