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Entries from August 2004

Cow Decapitation

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Demands unmet, Swedish militants decapitate fiberglass cow: “A shadowy group of militant Stockholmers carried out their threat to ‘execute’ a fiberglass life-size cow after their demand that ‘Cow Parade,’ an outdoor art exhibit, be dismantled was not met, organizers said. “‘We have received the cow cut into pieces in a bag. It’s really sad. There’s […]

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Tags: the world

Attack Ads

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 · 2 Comments

ABCNews.com: “Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry picked New York City, host to next week’s Republican National Convention, to urge the GOP to abandon negative attacks and debate solutions to problems facing voters.” Now there’s a novel concept. The fact that Bush and Co. (along with the media) have spent so much time focusing on this […]

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Tags: politics

SF Trip

Thursday, August 19th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Jen and I returned Tuesday night from our first trip back to San Francisco since we moved cross-country at the end of last year. It felt really good to be back in my home away from home to help Jane and Sarah celebrate their wedding, to see all our kick-ass friends, party pretty much every […]

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Tags: photos

Trustworthiness

Thursday, August 19th, 2004 · Comments Off on Trustworthiness

In response to Cal Thomas‘ editorial in today’s Saratogian, I just sent the following letter to the editor (unfortunately, I can’t find the original piece online): To the Editor: How ironic that Cal Thomas declares the following in his editorial criticizing Kerry (“Where is Kerry’s evidence of trustworthiness?”): “A president must always put America’s interests […]

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Tags: politics

Fundrace.org

Wednesday, August 11th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Fundrace.org puts your political contributions into the public domain. It’s really interesting to look at the Money Maps, browse the city donation maps (to see that individuals at 101 California represent the biggest Republican contributors in San Francisco), and even search by name for your friends and family. I donate often to MoveOn.org and the […]

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Tags: politics

1000

Saturday, August 7th, 2004 · 1 Comment

This post marks a momentous occasion for my blog. It is entry number 1000 in my database. Not all those entries are currently live and shown in my archives (this will be 938 in that list) — a number represent posts that I started to write and never published or entries that I’ve pulled down […]

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Tags: blogging

Kumar, Bars, Bush

Friday, August 6th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is the funniest movie ever. I laughed so hard it hurt. Probably not since Rat Race have I seen a movie that made me laugh as much. I wasn’t expecting much — I was thinking along the lines of American Pie 2 — but it blew me away. […]

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Tags: anecdotes

Party Time

Monday, August 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Party Time

Lately I’ve not blogged much. In fact, in the history of my blog, it may be the dryest stretch I’ve had without regular posts. I want to be better about that. Things have been so busy lately. I took off a few days at the end of last week to party first with Megan, who […]

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Tags: photos