Only 2 weeks to win one of our biggest 2014 fights
One of our best chances to flip a House seat from crazy red to moderate blue is coming up March 11th. That is only 2 weeks to win one of our biggest races of the year.Alex Sink, former CFO of Florida...
View ArticleSaving Indie Cinemas that Saved Me
When I was a teenager, one of the things that saved me from doing all the wrong things (drugs, crime, whatever) were the local indie cinemas. My friends and I would go to the Fox Venice or the Nuart...
View ArticleWhy Am I Here? Speaking METAphorically...
The Talmud recounts that a Gentile once approached Hillel with the request that Hillel convert him to Judaism. This Gentile did not want to go through a lengthy regimen of learning, so he told Hillel;...
View Article2014 Elections: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
A while back I posted a more optimistic version of this diary that did manage to get some fundraising accomplished for some important House races. I was hoping that we would win the FL-13 special...
View ArticleThe RNC emailed me this morning...help me respond
Somehow I got on the RNC email list. Which is kind of creepy...I mean I feel somewhat contaminated every time I get an email from them. On the other hand, it is an insight into their goals and...
View ArticleRNC pulls out their lamest guns
I am somehow on the RNC mailing list, so I get their secret strategy bulletins and their desperate pleas for money.Today's plea for money strikes me as particularly lame. See below the googly moogly...
View ArticleLetterman rocked...
I was in college when Letterman started. He was funny. He wasn't a big part of my life at the time, but he was funny.But stupid pet tricks and the like aren't what I remember most about Letterman. What...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup
I used to do a weekly newsletter that had quite a following. But it got too much for me to juggle, so I let it slip. But now, as possibly a step towards re-establishing it, I want to start a Cool News...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup (Midweek Update)
This is a repeat/update of my Sunday News Roundup both for those who missed it and to add a few new items.I used to do a weekly newsletter that had quite a following. But it got too much for me to...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup 2
I used to do a weekly newsletter that had quite a following. But it got too much for me to juggle, so I let it slip. But now, as possibly a step towards re-establishing it, I want to start a Cool News...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup 3
I used to do a weekly newsletter that had quite a following. But it got too much for me to juggle, so I let it slip. But now, as possibly a step towards re-establishing it, I want to start a Cool News...
View ArticleMy son's comments to Nintendo about gays
I noticed an article on BBC News that Nintendo is refusing to allow gay characters in their Tomodachi life game(which is supposed to simulate real life, I guess similar to the Sims). I showed it to my...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup 4
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.A PERSONAL SUCCESS:What can one person do? Sometimes,...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 5
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.But first, to us cat lovers (l like dogs too, but not...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 6
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.Results from last week's poll: no one who responded...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 7
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.Results from last week's poll: no one who responded...
View ArticleMole's Cool New Roundup 8
Below is a roundup of news, politics science, and humor. I plan on doing this about once a week as long as people seem interested. I hope you enjoy.But first, elections are 6 months away. We all know...
View ArticleMole's Cool News Roundup 9
The big news this week is Eric Cantor's epic defeat. We are now going to see the Greedy Oil Party get even more insane in its panic to please the teabaggers. Now there is not one single Jewish...
View ArticleHillary Clinton did something bad
Hillary Clinton did something badSo did Barack ObamaSo did Al GoreSo did Bill ClintonSo did Jimmy CarterSo did LBJ (oh boy!)So did JFKSo did HSTSo did FDR...well you get the point. But they all also...
View ArticlePrisoner Exchanges as Political Hot Potatoes
Prisoner exchanges have been common throughout history. It became a very common aspect of, for example, the Muslim-Byzantine conflicts in the Middle Ages. It is not something President Obama invented....
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