Month August 2003

Diebold voting machines in Georgia From Bev Harris’ newsletter “Georgia, perhaps hardest hit by the growing Diebold scandal, is now facing renewed questions about missing memory cards and other irregularities. On election night during the 2002 general election, 67 memory…

The past is a foreign country From The Guardian “America is a great country. But, ever since independence, <historian Douglas> Hofstadter demonstrated, sections of its political class have repeatedly viewed “conspiracy as the motive force in historical events”. At different…

Arianna will announce candidacy Wednesday From Arianna Huffington’s newsletter “I’ve received many wonderful e-mails from so many of you urging me to run.  Well, tomorrow morning at 10:30 am at A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles (a…

Howard Dean and the Net From Dan Gillmor  “I’m spending several days at the Vermont headquarters of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, studying a breakthrough in American politics. These folks are the first to truly grasp how to use the…

Sign on I-5 near San Diego The more I look at this sign, the more it bothers me. Immigrants are not cattle. There must have been any number of better ways to signal to motorists that people might be running…