Hominid Views

The University of Washington campus has its problems. You know, things like car thefts, the occasional pedal paraphiliac, and shrink-wrapped buildings.
But, between the hurricanes and campus wildlife at LSU, I think I’ll just shut-up and quit complaining!

I am late with this again, but the most recent edition of Podcasting Liberally is now available here. I was not on the panel this week, but Goldy assures me that I will return when VIPs (like Dwight Pelz) quit showing up at Drinking Liberally.
This podcast is very special because even [...]

I think the liberal blogosphere is making much too much out of California State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian’s photos. Howard is a Republican running for the 50th Congressional District near San Diego—the seat formerly held by Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
Howard has gotten into a little trouble over his statement (from his web site):

We took this photo [...]

Tuesdays can only mean one thing! There will be a meeting of the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally.
I be there, and there are rumors that Dwight Pelz will join us this evening.
At 9:00 pm there will be a panel of bloggers and political junkies recording another semi-drunken episode of Podcasting [...]

This morning President Bush announced that his longtime chief of staff Andrew Card is leaving. Bush replaced him with his budget director Joshua Bolten.
From Reuters comes these rather nautical quotes of the day:

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York called the shuffle “simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”
“If the White [...]

A Reuters report today cites Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez as supposedly saying on Sunday that any U.S. invading troops would be met with arrows laced with Indian poison.

The left-wing former soldier, who has ordered his military to train civilian reserves for a guerrilla war, including the use of bows and arrows, often accuses [...]

The Seattle PI has a piece coming out tomorrow (Monday) morning called, Democrats look across the lake to add seats in Olympia. A big focus of the article is the Washington Senate race in the 48th district. That’s were I reside.
Incumbent Luke Esser will have a challenge. It will come [...]

Will she or won’t she?
First she was going to put everything on the line of her $10 millian inheritance.

Rep. Katherine Harris said she “won’t have anything left” after spending $10 million of her personal inheritance to fund her U.S. Senate campaign.
Harris announced last week that she planned to spend money she inherited after her father’s [...]

I recently posted an example of how the liberal blogosphere can and has influenced the media.
There is another way that blogs are affecting the press. Some media are starting to carry political blogs on their web sites. On the 21st of March WashingtonPost.com made the announcement that:

We’ve launched Red America, a [...]

Have you heard the wingnut pundits on the TV news programs and talk radio lately? “True conservatives” seem to be crawling out of the woodwork, and pointing out just where the Bush administration has gone wrong.
Mark Fiore captures this hip new trend with a titillating new dance step: The Bush Bash!

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Oops…I am very late on this…I am listening to the podcast for the first time as I type, and it is definitely worth the listen. Here is the offical Podcasting Liberally write-up/source of the podcast. Here is Goldy’s write-up (Goldy is the host). Pannelists were Belltowner, The (liberal) Girl Next Door, [...]

George W. Bush said in his press conference earlier this week that it is his job to “remember the lessons of September the eleventh.” I can imagine that this might be a tough job. I’d recommend that the government make George’s job easier by creating a new cable channel—The 9/11 Channel. It [...]

Katherine Harris, who recently inherited $10 million dollars, is doing her party proud. How?
Well, first she is demonstrating her Republican-bred grap of fiscal responsibility. She vows to “spend it all” on her senatorial campaign. From the AP:

Rep. Katherine Harris said she “won’t have anything left” after spending $10 [...]

For three months in a row now, Gregoire’s approval ratings have held against her disapproval ratings. Currently she is at 47% approval to 46% disapproval. This is a remarkable comeback from the dark days of the election contest where her approval rating was 34% to a disapproval rate of 57%. Those [...]

I got word today that The General was on some type of secret mission to the French Quarter of the Norwegian Riviera. That gave me the perfect opportunity to pick the lock to the traile…er…the Command Compound and make myself at home. I hacked into the General’s TRS-…umm…I mean…the Information Center’s Beowulf Cluster [...]