With the air show, my micro-campaign for the new G.I. Bill, the discovery of the cooling-vest charity and Memorial Day, it’s been a strangely military May at the normally not-so-military Cohen household.
To learn how it came to be, you’ll have to read the posts to come this weekend, but for now, get warmed up:
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that will piss you off! Listen to this NPR interview to learn about the shadowy cabals known as hedge funds and how the Bush administration is assisting them in screwing the world. Yeah, that means you. (No better, the Dems regulatory response: huh? who, us? uh…) Warning: listening to this may make you want to […]

Despite Republican tactics that pulled the House of Representatives into a late-night secret session — only the third since 1825 — today the House said no to warrantless government wiretapping and no to immunizing telcos that participate in warrantless trolling of American citizens’ communications. Nicely, they also said yes to investigations of the whole Bush […]

Divide the $608 Billion spent on Operation Iraqi Freedom through FY 2008 [1] by the population of the U.S. and you’ll see that the war is costing every US man, woman and child about $2,400 — that’s just through the end of this fiscal year. Now, take note that public broadcasting costs about $1.53 per […]

Val e-mails from work to ask if I hear the black helicopters, because People for the American Way used my protest photo in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Val’s in there too. Check it out:

From the People for the American Way: The Senate passed a FISA reform bill last […]

Okay, dragging my ass home from Fluklahoma — as slow as the Greyhound local, stopping at every little bumfuck town from here to Wellville. I got a euro-postcard from M&M. Yeah, got to keep in touch. So here’s a little news from the road back to Normal (wherever the hell that is).
Listening to: Amy Winehouse. […]

Okay, need a test to see if you’re truly over the flu? Get dressed, drape yourself with a glittering and heavy collar of Mardi Gras beads and walk the 6 blocks to your polling place to cast your vote for your candidate for President. Shaky, clammy, icky? Crap!
No! It’s not because I voted for Barack! […]

At the nexus of history geeks, graphics geeks and politico-geeks there are things like these HistoryShots’ posters, “History of the [American] Political Parties I and II”. Fascinating. Whiggy. See them at historyshots.com.

TPM: GOP Bid to Block Amendments on Surveillance Bill Fails.
Louisiana readers note: Mary Landrieu was one of only four Dems to cross the line to vote in favor of administration secrecy and telcom immunity.

Tomorrow — Monday, January 28 — the Senate will take up the question of cloture on the FISA Amendments Act (S. 2248). Now before your eyes glaze, this is important! Ever say anything on the phone or in an e-mail that you would rather not share with loyal Bushie operatchiks? Believe Bush administration should keep […]

The Onion says, for a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008. See the video report here. Reason Magazine online asks: Is the Onion our most intelligent newspaper?

1) I did not win a date with Bill Clinton. Boo. But Hillary’s Campaign Manager, Patti Solis Doyle writes to say she’ll send me an e-mail reminder of the debate and that I can console myself with a live blog from the debate watching party. Sigh. [original post]
2) I am getting less junk mail. It […]

It didn’t take Val and me long to become water-conscious when we moved to California — we came from the swamplands to the desert, so it was a pretty obvious transition; you could actually see that water was scarce here. So it was natural to turn off the water while we brushed our teeth, hand-water […]

I made this hat today. And other stuff too!

Watching the Republican debate tonight, I find it hard to believe that Americans can get behind any of these guys. But then I remember the party’s last candidate, and the sad reality sets in.