Author: Ruby Sinreich

Bwa ha ha ha! “Jeff Gannon’s” “blog” is back online. Anyone care to guess what about it makes it a blog? I can’t tell.

There is so much stuff on the web about this, and I already wrote about it last week. But here’s the latest tidbit: it turns out many of Talon News’ stories were plagiarized from the AP wire and Fox News.

Can there be any doubt at this point that someone in the West Wing was (is?) sleeping with Gannon and needed to keep it quiet? How else can you explain the daily press passes for two years to a man with a fake name and no journalistic credentials?

It’s just embarrassing that the media let this story slip through the cracks like so many other important issues. The blogs did the research and found the not-so-elusive facts. Where is the MSM? Asleep at the wheel, apparently.

Internationalist Books and Community Center will be holding a wake and reading in honor of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson tonight at 8 pm. Here’s their announcement:

Hunter Stockton Thompson committed suicide at his home in Colorado this past Sunday. On Thursday (2/24) we’ll spend an informal evening at the store with his writings, please join us in remembering the founder of Gonzo Journalism and a great American. Bring your favorite HST book to read from. His most recent title is Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness.

I don’t blame him for quitting while he was ahead, before his body and life was ruled by pain. We’re fortunate the left his gonzo legacy behind.

The Winner of the dailyKOS Phighting Photoshoppers II contest:

From the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction department (or is that the we-couldn’t-make-this-up department?) I found this fascinating organization through an errant google search and I just had to share: the Pink Pistols.

“Thirty-one states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. ”

–Jonathan Rauch, Salon Magazine, March 13, 2000

If you have no sympathy for my weakness for cheap, well-designed, mass-manufactured home furnishings, you may want to just skip this post…

Anyway, I was just thinking that there are so many IKEA products that are only available in the stores, I’ll bet someone could make a tidy sum as a runner. You would get folks’ shopping lists, buy the stuff in the store and deliver it to folks who live hours away. I think I would pay for this, but not very much.

Maybe I will post this on washingtondc.craigslist.org and see if anyone bites. If not, I may have to go into business myself. One weekend a month road tripping to NoVA/DC. I could handle that.

At Planned Parenthood we do these protests with signs that combine to form a message (like the ads of old for Burma Shave). Today we did one for our recently-retired President, Gloria Feldt.

Here’s a slideshow.

I saw this groovy truck on Rhode Island Avenue walking to work today.

World, meet my new WordPress blog! Ever since I converted Orange Politics to WP last summer, I’ve been wanting to do the same on this site. The new release of the stunning WP 1.5 got me off my butt. There are a number of things on the site that are still in transition, but I wanted to go ahead at start posting blog entries here instead of on my old heap-o-junk blogger blog. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a good way to import the old comments. I think we’re just going to have be zen about it and let them go.

Feel free to point out any errors you may find. I already know I need to fix the “randomness” in the sidebar, and I need to move my projects and portfolio onto static pages. Then I get to start making categories. A lot of the formatting and line breaks in old posts is funky, but I can’t fix all of that. And the permalinks are all kinda screwed up becuse my oldest blogger posts don’t have the post titles! 🙁 So, if you’re an astute reader (ha, as if!) you will probably see some stuff changing and maybe even breaking over the next few weeks as I put on the finishing touches.

Sorry for the very geeky (or maybe just dorky) nature of recent posts. My head is in developer mode so all I want to do is mess with PHP and CSS this week. It’s hard to be eloquent in English when I am immersed in these other “languages.” And when I am sleepy, which I am. Goodnight, blog.

Seriously! I’m staying at my favorite hotel in DC (Helix) and I scored a particularly good room. It makes me want to throw a party or something.

Helix is good, glam fun. It’s disturbing to be so effectively marketed to, but I’m just relaxing and enjoying it. They even nailed the music: Crowded House just came on in the bar. I’m such a sucker.

‘ll be back home Saturday after a pit stop at IKEA (I said I was a sucker). Need anything?

The rest of my posts from blogger will be coming over here soon and then this site will be rockin’ and rollin’.