Dean easily wins MoveOn.org primary

Not only does this give the Dean campaign a huge publicity boost and major media attention, I think it also makes him the frontrunner.

DEAN          139360  43.87%
KUCINICH       76000  23.93%
KERRY          49973  15.73%

Everyone else
EDWARDS        10146   3.19%
BRAUN           7021   2.21%
GRAHAM          7113   2.24%
GEPHARDT        7755   2.44%
LIEBERMAN       6095   1.92%
SHARPTON        1677   0.53%
OTHER           6121   1.93%
UNDECIDED       6378   2.01% 

Total         317647   100.0

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Camblogging the Bush protest

I’m going to camblog the Bush protest in L.A. tonight!

Say what, you say? Let me explain.

My Nokia 3650 cellphone takes photos and has email. Thus I can take photos with the cell phone then email them to the PoliZeros Phonecam weblog, where they will be automatically posting - literally within seconds after I take the photo. I can include text also.

This is way cool. Maybe even a whole new way of blogging and of journalism. Cops smashing heads? Take a picture of it, and it’s on the Net within seconds. Not that I expect this to happen, I’m just using this as an example of what’s possible now.

I’ll start posting the photos about 5:30 pm PDT to the PoliZeros Phonecam weblog.

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Gay rights

Today the Supreme Court overturned the Texas anti-sodomy laws which, in effect, legalizes gay sex. Next month the Massachusetts Supreme Court is widely expected to legalize gay marriage. Vermont already permits gay unions, while Canada recently became the third nation to legalize marriage between gays.

This is an earthquake. Gays are on the verge of getting legally recognized civil rights, just as did Blacks did during the civil rights campaigns of the 1960’s.

The fundies are foaming at the mouth over this. Indeed, their anti-gay bigotry is a point of pride to them (go figure). They will no doubt be screaming at Bush to do something about this horrid Homosexual Menace.

The Bushies think this will play their way in campaign 2004, hoping to make it a central issue. I  disagree. Making gay rights a major campaign issue will fracture the right, and fracture it badly. And I expect gay rights will be an important issue in 2004.

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New L.A. alt newspaper

L.A. CityBeat

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Restitution Sought From Enron Officials

“Former Enron Corp. executives, including chairman Kenneth L. Lay, chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling and the company’s directors, failed to protect 20,000 workers’ and retirees’ savings, and should pay restitution, the Labor Department contended yesterday in a lawsuit.”

Restitution? How about prison?

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We’re torturing, and we’re proud of it

“Privately, the Americans admit that torture, or something very like it, is going on at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where they are holding an unknown number of suspected terrorists.

What is perhaps most disturbing about all this is that the US officials who have leaked the information have not done so out of a need to expose something that they see as shameful. On the contrary, they have made it clear that they wanted the world to know what is going on because they feel it is justified.”

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BBC and Blair at war

“The row between Downing Street and the BBC over the corporation’s Iraq coverage escalated to an unprecedentedly venomous level yesterday when Alastair Campbell, the government communications director, demanded but failed to secure a BBC apology by his deadline of yesterday.

The BBC said it was being put under an “unprecedented level of pressure” from Downing Street.”

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Kucinich v. Dean

Where it is demonstrated that Kucinich is way more progressive than Dean. Not that Dean ever said he was progressive…

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