“As the country’s most trafficked Web site, MySpace will play a powerful role in the upcoming election,” Chris DeWolfe, MySpace’s chief executive said in a statement.
MySpace now has presidential hopefuls with profiles! Like, that’s so totally cool because now we can totally ask Barak and Hillary to, like, be our friends and then we can [...]
03.19.07 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
[Reuters on Yahoo!]
Washington Post: U.S. Attorney Firings Investigation
03.16.07 | Uncategorized | admin
After the Senate shot down Sen. Patrick’s attempt to destroy the 2/3ds rule at the beginning of session, will Dewhurst say “f*ck the senators” and bypass the rule to allow a vote on the voter ID bill?
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/03/16/16vote.html
Sen. Ellis and the 10 other Ds have enough votes to prevent the bill from being heard on the [...]
03.15.07 | Uncategorized | admin
This photo was taken last Friday on bill deadline day. The photographer says:
Apparently Rep. Bohac is either A) too whored out already or B) unwilling to file bills that will help his district.
Note: The small bit above the “WE MEAN IT!!!” says, “Unless you are from Leg Council”. If you were wondering.
03.14.07 | Uncategorized | admin
Or so he said in his interview with Texas Monthly Talks. He says that he loves McCain (brotherly love, I’m sure), and that he would tell Mitt Romney “you need to find somebody who has a passion to be your vice president. I don’t.”
Instead, he plans to run again for Governor. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo . [...]
03.14.07 | Uncategorized | admin
The SXSW Festival is underway here in Austin. The swarm comes in threes. First the city fills with techno-geeks for the ‘Interactive’ portion, then the skeevy film people breeze into town and fill up the Hotel San Jose and bombard Craigslist with ‘casual encounters’ posts, and finally the too hip to breathe music industry gets [...]
03.14.07 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Look closely.
[via AMERICAblog]
03.13.07 | Uncategorized | admin
HHSC announced earlier today that they’re canceling their $899 million contract with Accenture. The company was hired in an effort to privatize the eligibility and enrollment services for public benefits but ended doing a piss poor job, resulting in tens of millions of wasted tax payer dollars and tens of thousands of children without [...]
03.13.07 | Uncategorized | admin
Christopher Knight’s campaign commercial for Rockingham County School Board is bewildering. Christopher was an Eagle Scout (I researched him) cementing my firm opinion that Eagle Scouts are f’ing freaks.
03.13.07 | Uncategorized | pinkdome