Sea of Pink
I just heard from KarenInDC and she is at the Code Pink rally in DC and completely unable to make a crowd estimate but CNN has helicopters overhead. Karen is in a sea of pink - pink balloons, pink...
View ArticleRuss Feingold Gets Backbone Award!!
Yesterday I attended a most interesting event. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin was stumping for Maria Cantwell of Washington. Many who came to see Russ have mixed feelings about Cantwell who has been weak...
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Solstice at the Center of the Universe
The Solstice Parade was held 24 hours after The President left our airspace. The paper mache puppets (Condi, Rumsfeld) are part of the latest series by Backbone Campaign, of Vashon Island, WA. They...
View ArticleSeattle Pride
Seattle celebrated the last four days with Pride Events, both on Capital Hill and at the Seattle Center. This was the first year for the parade to go from Westlake Mall downtown to the Seattle Center....
View ArticleThe Google Sweepstakes of Posterity: James Brown v Saddam v Ford
I have been tracking the world's media coverage of the three most media-hyped deaths, as well as the size of the crowds, the type of funeral or ceremony, and in fact, the number of funerals (3 for...
View ArticleChildren Know More Than Adults
There seems to be a sea of bitterness on the internet, and rightly so. If it's not the Republicans, it's the Democrats and it's been this way for years.For short-term sanity, I suggest the...
View ArticleWho is the Real AntiChrist?
I was so shocked by this video that I can't even remember how I discovered it. It's made by Max Blumenthal, who made the Young Republicans "Generation Chickenhawk" video that people were watching last...
View ArticleCheney Statue Toppled by his Neighbors~!
Yesterday the Cheney video du jour was the 1994 one where he warned against invading and occupying Iraq.Today he's in the YouTube universe again, and this may go viral too!Amazingly, a rowdy group of...
View ArticleEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Blackwater (But Were Afraid to Ask)
I first heard of Blackwater, like many people, when four of their members were ambushed in Fallujah and their corpses were dragged through the streets, then hung from a bridge over the Euphrates. I...
View ArticleClinton Obama and McCain ALL Show Up In Seattle In One 24 Hour Period
I couldn't get out of work today so am gradually reconstructing what happened in Seattle today prior to our caucusses tomorrow. I had my car radio on, checked the internet when I could, and grilled my...
View ArticleObama is speaking live at Wesleyan
He will be speaking in place of Senator Kennedy, who was unable to give the address at this time.Commencement addresses are a historic event because young people are on the threshold of the rest of...
View ArticleHow Many Dead (don't ask the media)
I was coming home from a regional blogger conference and was still mentally processing and mulling over alot of things in my head when I saw these symbolic grave markers at Green Lake in Seattle. I...
View ArticleLIVE from Denver: I told a New York Times reporter what I think of the media
I was in the Big Tent (for bloggers) and had scored a couch with a nice AC adaptor plug-in and wasn't about to move. I had pictures to upload, email to check and blogging to do and wasn't about to...
View ArticleMarkos Just Kicked Over My Beer
Now that I have your attention, I just want to say that the Big Tent experience is primo and I want to personally thank DailyKos, Google and Digg and the City of Denver and the DNC (even if the latter...
View ArticleObama Visibility in Seattle - Westlake Mall & Pike Place Market
I am having trouble figuring out how to embed pictures, so I will link to them on another blog. I want to give a shoutout to Josh Castle, one of the most amazing grassroots community organizers I have...
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