Author: Ruby Sinreich

I am supposed to want to support Democrat Erskine Bowles, who’s running for the U.S. Senate seat so quickly vacated by John Edwards. I guess I’d rather meet Bowles in a dark alley than his likely opponent, Republican Richard Burr. But I haven’t seen much of Bowles to get excited about, and the more I read, the less I like. I’m glad someone’s into it, though.

It must be the End Times. Yahoo reports Bono Honored By Martin Luther King Jr.’s Widow In Atlanta.

Here’s one of the reasons I haven’t been posting lately: I have a real job. One of my recent accomplishments is launching this program, called Planned Parenthood All*Stars, to encourage our pro-choice activists to recruit their friends online for the March for Women’s Lives. Check it out yourself and sign-up with me.

I am loving this bit from the New York Times: Seeking Women’s Votes, Clark Changes His Style: “Gen. Wesley K. Clark has replaced his suit with an argyle sweater in an attempt to increase his support among women.”

I highly recommend you visit Cynthia Malaran Headquarters… full of good ideas and attitude.

The two things I like about Christmas:

1. It’s almost New Year’s.
2. I can look forward to 335 days of no-one asking me what I’m doing for Chistmas.

And those are the only two things.

According to an AP story on Single Women Gaining Political Clout, a recent study “showed that [single women] are the largest nonvoting group and also one of the most dissatisfied with the country’s direction.” Um, duh! How much do they pay the pollsters for this crap?

Now why would we be dissatisfied? “Economically, single women are not the most attractive group for politicians to court, with half earning less than $30,000 a year, compared with a quarter of married women.” Plus, we’re getting the distinct sense that our “President” would rather see us at home in burquas than in control of our country and our lives. Let’s make him sqeal like a pig!

Today on WUNC’s The State of Things, they will be discussing politics and the Internet (blogging, in particular). The guests will be Zephyr Teachout of Howard Dean’s Blog for America, Greensboro uber-blogger Ed Cone, and… me! Of OrangePolitics.org! Wooo!

You can listen at noon and 8 pm today on WUNC, 91.5 FM.

TRASHLOG.

Very Found-esque.

Wow. The Hello World Project allows you to send a message from the web or from a text-enabled cell phone, and projects the message in huge lit-up letters on a building in Mumbai, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, or New York. You can watch the buildings by web cam and see the messages going by. I don’t know why, but this gives me a deep and inspiring feeling of global connectedness. I sent the message: “Bush lies.”

Speaking of being connected, the New York Times ran a long story this weekend about how the Dean for President campaign’s use of the Internet is empowering and energizing grassroots supporters. In my opinion, this isn’t just neat-o from a techie perspective. The underlying philosophy of it is very (small D) democratic. This philosophy, combined with the many brilliant and open-minded technologists and strategists on the campign, are why I think he will win. In fact, I think he’s the only candidate who can beat Bush next year.