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Thursday, May 31, 2001

cant these women relax?

"SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (AP) - Brenda Corrie Kuehn will be wearing men's golf shirts and carrying 25 extra pounds in the eighth month of her pregnancy. She still expects a normal golf experience this week at the U.S. Women's Open."

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double trouble

can you believe that the bush girls were busted again, this time for trying to use a fake id to buy alcohol at a restaurant? god bless those girls.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2001

public affairs

"For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns. Doing that means going far beyond anything dreamt of in the watered-down McCain-Feingold bill sloshing its way through Congress, which closes one loophole (soft money) while widening the hard-money pipeline. That's why a little-noticed storm going on right now in the state of Massachusetts is so important."

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tv land

is there anything more surreal than the idea of a cleaned up cheech marin doing a knock off clips show called funny flubs and screwups using bush campaign speech malaprops alongside outtakes from becker?

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Tuesday, May 29, 2001

blame canada

Canada Moves Toward Legalizing Pot

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buzz lightyear

Could McCain Make The Jump As Well?

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x-ray specs

i guess glen jones is having his 15 minutes except its taking him a little longer.

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no class

i just started getting my alumni magazine after about ten years. it took me a while to get them my fowarding address. in between all the notices for marriages babies and promotions is a notification for jane swift, class of 1987, which coincides with my days at trinity. so whats she doing? shes the govenor of freakin' massachusetts. i guess i can take umbrage in the fact that she wasnt elected to that post. yeah right.

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golf clubbed

"WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case sure to be argued again and again in country clubs and saloons across the land, that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can ride in a golf cart rather than walk the course during PGA Tour events."

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Monday, May 28, 2001

e-voter

Online campaigns - why the've been so poorly done, and how to run them right

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