The Green[e]house Effect: On the Side

February 26, 2004

• Fred Clark: "Perhaps next week the president will come out in favor of a compromise — say that a same-sex couple counts as three-fifths of a marriage."  (0)

February 24, 2004

• Welcome to the Grey Tuesday protest, mounted to raise awareness about the need to guard against misuse of our copyright laws. Learn more about the protest here. Download the Grey Album through Illegal Art, Six Foot 6, A Whole Lotta Nothing, Eclecticism, or — until the night ends — my site.  (0)

February 23, 2004

• Prove that Bush served in Alabama — and win $10,000 cash!   (0)
• The new Disney Hall in Los Angeles: some call it blindingly beautiful ... and some call it blinding  (0)
• A vending machine that bakes pizza? Ew.  (0)
• The Shins go gonzo Buddhist: "Om is the all-beef patty ..."   (0)

February 19, 2004

• Quoth Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Are we going to have a revolution led by mayors?"  (0)
• My thought on this protest? It'll be a grey Tuesday in hell before the record industry lets the Grey Album see the light of day.  (0)
• Ed Cone sings a requiem for Howard Dean: "Internet politics, release 1.0, still has some bugs in it."  (0)
• "The force is very powerful in this pinot noir, sire."  (0)

February 17, 2004

• Conservatives love themselves a man in uniform! See, e.g., Mark Steyn: "[Former Senator Max Cleland] wasn't [injured] in combat. He was working on a radio relay station. He saw a grenade dropped by one of his colleagues and bent down to pick it up. It's impossible for most of us to imagine what that must be like — to be flown home, with your body shattered, not because of some firefight, but because you made a stupid mistake."  (0)
• ... also see Ann Coulter: "Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields ... Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix."  (0)
• "What, me slander?" say Steyn and Coulter. Yep — check the facts at the Center for American Progress [1] [2].  (0)
• Melanie Goux on the decline of Dean: "If I had to point fingers, I’d point one squarely at former campaign manager Joe Trippi. The guy was over his head and out of his league from day one."  (0)
• City-blogging galore: New Yorkish ...  (0)
• ... Friscosity ...  (0)
• ... Swamp City  (0)

February 16, 2004

• Sez Polaroid™: "Hey, quit shaking our pictures!"  (0)
• George Kennan, the pseudonymous 'X' who developed the doctrine of containment, turns 100  (0)
• Billionaires for Bush: Because every man deserves a voice in government  (0)
• What about bloggers who go into political consulting?  (0)
• Politicians starting to blog might seem old hat — but how about bloggers going into politics?  (0)

February 11, 2004

• Former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi has a new blog ...  (0)
• Fox News and Wal-Mart have struck a joint-venture agreement. Just peachy — I mean, one conservative, exploitative company with no discernible ethics deserves another, right?  (0)
• Have you had a late-term abortion? The Justice Department may want to know more about you.  (0)
• Too late to help Matthew Yglesias, Harvard College gets a nudie magazine  (0)
• Note to self: do not get into an argument with this woman  (0)
• Coming soon to the aisles of a British supermarket: aphrodisiac pizza. [Insert a punchline about sausage or banana peppers here.]  (0)
• Shorter James Lileks: Vote Bush — and annoy al-Qaeda!  (0)
• Quelle f–––ing surprise: Bush ready to make marriage a constitutional issue. [Say — will the amendment apply on Mars?]  (0)

February 10, 2004

• Gentlemen, start your headphones: Time for Village Voice Pazz ’n Jop 2003  (0)
• Silence never sounded so ... expensive.  (0)
• Fig and pear salad?! Oh man, that looks good ...  (0)
• New York Times: A Putin Election Challenger Disappears. [I get the sense we should send out a search party for Russian democracy as well.]  (0)
• How to write good.  (0)

February 06, 2004

• Jason Zada explains how Steve Jobs saved Apple  (0)
• Paul Craig Roberts, a columnist, opens his mouth and inserts a foot: "Compare an American taxpayer's situation today with that of a 19th-century American slave ..." [Link courtesy of Prof. Eugene Volokh.]  (0)
• "You say you want 'evolution' / Well, you know / Guess I won't change the word ..."  (0)
• Allons enfants et bicyclettes: Lance Armstrong throws his hat in for the Tour de Georgia  (0)

February 04, 2004

• Backin’ black: Republican operatives luuuuv Al Sharpton   (0)
• Dear G-d, people — put your shirts back on!!! [Not safe for work; link courtesy of the Black Table.]  (0)
• Kristy MacNichol and Christopher Atkins singing? How could anyone say no? [Link courtesy of Chuck Taggart.]  (0)
• Tina of Eat Your Vegetables tees off at CBS about the teat tempest: "This is the same NFL in which every team pays the salaries of the bouncing cleavage on the sidelines that pass for cheerleaders."  (0)