Eerie

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Sep 302004
 

As some of you may know, my father-in-law works for Morning Edition. He’s been part of the production staff almost since the show’s inception and sometimes reads the voiceover translations for the stories that air. This morning, he was the voice of an Iraqi kidnapped at gunpoint (it’s the first story listed on the linked page). In the past, I’ve heard him as a Chinese AIDS activist. I’m almost always on the way to work in my car and a little bit groggy when I hear him. It’s just a little surreal to be half-listening to a story on the radio and suddenly realize that it’s your father-in-law talking about having a gun to his head while being kidnapped in Baghdad.

 Posted by on September 30, 2004 at 5:14 pm

GOP roundup

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Sep 302004
 

Daily Kos has an interesting dissection of the presidential wink. Watch for it tonight.

Burnt Orange Report points out that after being linked by several blogs earlier this week, Alan Keyes staff has removed campaign pictures that include his daughter, Maya. The word is that she’s a lesbian, which, of course, doesn’t quite fit with her father’s world view. I don’t know their motivations, but I’d question what the hell she was doing stumping for him. I suppose supporting your father is a priority even if he is Alan Keyes, but I wonder what she thinks of being removed. The miracle of the browser disk cache allows me to keep hope alive. Look out, it’s nearly 3MB.

Finally, the house passed a bill on to the Senate yesterday that makes it easier to prosecute file sharing as a federal crime. Thanks to redistricting, the sponsor of the bill was none other than our own Lamar Smith. Those in his district who have an opinion might want to write him about it.

 Posted by on September 30, 2004 at 4:27 pm

How low will they go?

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Sep 302004
 

This is the kind of shit that the GOP is sending out in states like West Virginia and Arkansas. It’s not even worth dignifying with a response, but you know that there are plenty of people who will see the inflammatory (and completely false) graphic, read the issues, of which they probably disagree with at least one, and decide right then and there that they’ve got to go out and vote for Shrub. Nevermind all of the other evil shit the GOP is responsible for, those damn liberals want to ban the bible!

 Posted by on September 30, 2004 at 2:55 pm