Andymatic

Category: Politics

  • Raging Infomaniac

    Sunday. Lots to do. While journaling yesterday I made a realization that my entire life right now revolves around three locations: At the gym With Ron At the computer With the third location as the default. My default action has become working. Or rather ‘at the computer’ which may or may not include working. I’ve […]

  • 364 Days Left

    364 days left. Creatine fizzing in a bottle. Caffeine entering bloodstream. Kitty chomping Meow Mix (I didn’t have time to get him his usual Sciene Diet so he has to deal with the travesty of food from White Hen). How much time each year do you spend in virtual worlds? If you add up the […]

  • Federal DNA Database Advances in Senate

    With the title Violence Against Women Act, legislation is moving through the Senate that would: [C]reate a national registry of DNA taken from any person who has been detained by the police, even if the person is not arrested or convicted. The database is an amendment to the original legislation.

  • Action Required: Fight Media Consolidation

    Tell FCC to issue a big ‘suck it’ to big media: Comcast and Time Warner are trying to further consolidate their regional monopolies.  If this deal goes through, Big Cable Company #1 (Comcast) and Big Cable Company #2 (Time-Warner) will gobble up Big Cable Company #3 (Adelphia), and the two remaining cable giants will control […]

  • Sneaking a Goodman

    Totally forgot to chronicle Madge and I sneaking into the AFL-CIO’s Labor Communications convention to see Amy Goodman speak. I wasn’t sure we’d get in, but Madge had her video camera and I carried a tripod and nobody said anything. We set up in the back of the room just after they finished dessert and […]

  • Civil Rights Documents Purged from Government Site

    As of 7 January 2005, the website of the US Commission on Civil Rights has been purged of 20 reports that didn’t meet the approval of the agency’s Republican majority. The site says that you may still order copies of these reports, but, tellingly, they require that you give them a physical mailing address. In […]

  • Behind the Green Door Revealed

    (Coming from Steve Gillard’s blog? My apologies – I mistargeted a trackback. I’d mentioned him in this entry.) Oh sorry. You know ‘Deep Throat’ and all that. Sometimes I my loathe to blog stuff that is all over the news but want a little ‘tick’ in the blog of an event. WaPo confirmed.

  • No Child Left Behind

    Think you’ve heard it all about NCLB? Let’s hear from a teacher. 11.4MB, MP3 audio.

  • Evangelical Doctor May Have Swayed FDA

    Soon after the Food and Drug Administration overruled its advisory panel last year and rejected an application to make an emergency contraceptive more easily available, critics of the agency said it had ignored scientific evidence and yielded to pressure from social conservatives. … He said he believes his memo played a central role in the […]

  • Social Security Debate

    One of the best parts of the weekend was actually going through the social security debate by the numbers – grabbing the stats off the SSA site and walking through them together with both a conservative mathematician and a liberal one. There’s so many nuances to the debate that go so far past Am I […]