Archive for January, 2007
We Love You Molly Ivins
If only Idaho had a voice as charming, insightful, thought-provoking as yours! Our thoughts are with you.
Another nifty geeky local page for your time wasting pleasure.
Just found BSU prof Murli Nagasundaram’s personal site. He’s got lots of time wasters here: links to pages on creativity, good design, personality tests. Nifty.
Idahoan chick-memoir author to visit area
Heard of The Year of Yes? It’s a chick-lit -memoir by Maria Dahvana Headley with a teriffic premise: a young woman, tired of the dating scene, decides to say yes to every man who asks her out for a year. Interesting twists: 1. She’s new to NYC. 2. She’s a playwright. 3. She’s from Caldwell, [...]
Input needed on 30th Street extension
Know that area between the Connector and State Streets around 27th Street and the river? Where the new Idaho River Sports is located, and the new whitewater park and Esther Simplot Park with will be (if the City can ever find the funding for it)? ACHD is proposing a new road connecting Main Street and State Street. The [...]
photos from the march on washington
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
ART
> bush and condi kiss | another view
> red sculpture puppet thing
> bush, cheney puppet [...]
craig, crapo: no minimum wage required
bob geiger has a roundup of senators who voted for the Wayne Allard (R-CO) amendment to COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE MINIMUM WAGE. it failed, but both Craig and Crapo signed it. now, i’m all for libertarian perspectives, but seriously, how can they justify billions of dollars of corporate tax subsidies, and billions of dollars [...]
friday: beat blogging
while others post pics of cats and other random goodies on friday . . . i’m kicking off “friday: beat blogging” with a submission from belgium, fresh from the other side of the world via the series of tubes, making late friday afternoon all sorts of urban sexy . . .
LISTEN: fhex {magnetik_bass} dubstep [...]
cheney is going down: i’m squishing your head
so, by way of Crooks And Liars, who got it from an inside source at Comedy Central . . . they heard that Cheney is going to step down and Condosleeza Rice is going to take his position. which, i have to confess, had secretly calculated in the back of my mind because of [...]
canyon county: anti-surge??
the mountain goat report has been watching an online poll from Idaho Press Tribune, asking whether or not readers support bush’s “surge” plan . . . and shockingly, the results speak to the state of the presidents approval numbers.
go idaho!! we’re starting to see thru the b.s. one neighborhood at a time!!
the sun gets in your eyes
the sun had several outbursts in the last few days, watch the most mind-blowing SOHO stop-frame animation cam HERE. (let it load fully once and then on the second time around . . . wa wa weee woo!)
also, there is a new “theory of the universe” which suggests that we live in a plasma-based, not [...]
McMansion denied? Eagle’s water issues may delay 10 developments
The Statesman reports today that
Eagle Water Co.’s system deficiencies could stall as many as 10 proposed developments in Eagle. Now city officials are considering a moratorium on new applications in the private water company’s service area until the issues are cleared up.
Could this be the beginning of the end, when the infrastructure and natural resources [...]
virgin birth, dragon style!
the baby komodo dragons hatched!! the baby komodo dragons hatched!! and their mom, flora, made them all by herself. now this is a miraculous feature of nature.
unlike mr sali, who also recently did something all by himself, which also involved features of nature, Bubblehead of The Stupid Shall Be Punished notes that [...]
otter: against wolves, for marijuana
google is great. in an article in Reason Magazine, circa 1978, butch muses:
“if a person, of his own free will, wants to use marijuana, I question whether the government has any propriety in telling him he can’t.†By limiting freedom, he said, “the government, in effect, is taking away the only real gift the [...]
Southwestern Idaho: Land of Creative Joyriders?
Remember how back in November, some kids got canned from the Idaho Ice World for taking a zamboni to the local fast-food drive-thru? Then there were the reports of a January 11 drunken joyride on a fire truck in Canyon County. The following week came the case of two dudes who hotwired six [...]
cheney is going down
political wager: the revelations that are coming out in the “Scooter” Libby CIA Leak Investigation trial will force Cheney to resign.
watch today’s report from MSNBC (click launch under the pic of Cheney on the MSN page), revealing that the identity of Valerie Plame was first disclosed to Libby by Cheney and all the back-door political [...]
Branden Durst marches with extremists
Newly minted representative Branden Durst (D-18) was at the so-called March for Life this month. Yet Rep Durst chose not to mention that on his website, blog or newsletter (I picked it up from a right-to-lifer’s poorly formatted blatherings). Could it be because he recognizes that his constituency would howl if they found out? Okay, I’ll [...]
automatons read news : bronco football, bigger ‘n jesus
Randy Stapilus, of Ridenbaugh Press, uncovers an interesting angle on the current state of Television News Anchors
“You can’t confuse reading the news with being a reporter.†-Channel 7’s General Manager, Doug Armstrong
You can read the full backstory in this Statesman report from Heath Druzin.
We have our own question about the current state of local news: [...]
“It also didn’t hurt that I married Mr. Simplot’s daughter”
Betsy Russell, of Eye on Boise, caught this admission by Gov. Butchy-Boy Otter.
“I wouldn’t have been able to get into a college any place because I didn’t have very good grades,” Otter said. “But at Boise Junior College they had to take me.” Boise Junior College is now Boise State University.
Otter said the chance to [...]
o’reilly : colbert
Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor) and Steven Colbert (The Colbert Report) go on each others shows . . . and the results are hillarious.
WATCH: The O’Reilly Factor hosts Steven Colbert
WATCH: The Colbert Report hosts Bill O’Reilly
Warming, Schwarming! Uh…wait! Where’s my framed certificate?!?!?!
The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several [...]
