Twitter: georgemaschke- Blue Mountain Gold coffee (a Jamaican variety) grown in Papua New Guinea. It is dark roasted and very good. :-) http://twitpic.com/2jcluj
- The rain on my windshield painted an impressionist landscape this morning. http://twitpic.com/2iae4n
- Rain in Holland is hardly news, but it has rained unusually hard in the past 24 hours, with water in the streets. http://twitpic.com/2iaa8u
- The unthinkable has happened: I have utterly and completely run out of coffee. Not a single precious bean left in the house!
- I have given up on Ubuntu One file synchronization. Too many glitches--including data loss--in particular with Tomboy Notes.
- If you would deny Muslims freedom to build #Park51 community center, then don't you dare call One World Trade Center "Freedom Tower."
- NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's excellent defense of the so-called "Ground Zero" Islamic center project : http://huff.to/aNRwu5
- How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025): http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html
- Interesting commentary by @nickpatrick: "Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?" http://bit.ly/9buYtj
- This is the first coin dated 2010 that I've encountered. It's a Dutch 5 euro cent coin. http://twitpic.com/270jl6
Category Archives: politics
Marcy Winograd Leads Jane Harman on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
On Tuesday, 8 June 2010, progressive Democrat Marcy Winograd is challenging blue dog incumbent Jane Harman for the party’s nomination for California’s 36th district congressional seat. I support Winograd because of her firm antiwar position. (Harman backed the invasion of Iraq.) I also appreciate Winograd’s denunciation of Israel’s recent commando raid on volunteers bringing humanitarian [...]
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Election Advertising in The Hague
Elections for The Hague’s city council are to be held on 3 March 2010, and around the city, the municipality has erected temporary billboards on which each party fielding candidates in the election can place a poster putting its case to the voters. I’ve never seen anything like this done in an American election. It’s [...]
Social Media Site Standings a Poor Predictor of Electoral Outcome in California’s 36th Congressional District