One of the reasons I love Mark Warner’s campaign for Senate is that he’s not just content to simply defeat Jim Gilmore this November, which even Republicans know will be the case. Nope, Mark Warner is going to do to Jim Gilmore what Jim Gilmore did to Virginia from 1998-2002. It almost makes you feel sorry for […]

Presentation Files: OSCON 2008 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 21 – 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon –
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right –

Looks like it’s time for me to join the conspiracy theorists (CNET):
The whopping housing bill that President Bush signed into law last week does far more than merely address the nation’s real estate woes. Some sections have raised serious privacy concerns.
Tucked in near the end of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act is a requirement […]

Antivaxxers and the media | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – Is there any conservative interest group that I haven't pissed off yet today by linking to something offensive to them?
The Meming of Life » the mix Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wonders – Why do generally good and ethical religious […]

2008 Beijing Olympics | Olympics blog | For starters, it’s not ‘Ping Pong’ | Los Angeles Times – Olympian Gary Hall Jr. is now the latest Inspired by Diabetes global ambassador. Hall is currently writing for a blog on the L.A. Times website called "Olympics: Ticket to Beijing". It has updates, opinions, and […]

Finding Aid to the Transportation Library Menu Collection List of Contents, Finding Aids, Northwestern University Library – Collection of old airline menus. Believe it or not, they used to actually serve food on flights.
Building a Software Company: How to hire an idiot –

February 15th [1863] Another letter from Papa of the 29th December [1862]. He is rejoicing over our Fredericksburg victory, has just received the first Yankee accounts of it and even they admit [crossed out: that they have sustained] a grea…

It’s been a
hot and humid July with promises of more for August, but the artists have been
busy creating new works for all to see.

We have a
special artist showing this month at the Griffin Gallery, Larry Southworth from
Fredericksburg, who wil…

International Herald Tribune:
In an effort to cast himself as independent of the influence of money on politics, Senator Barack Obama often highlights the campaign contributions of $200 or less that have amounted to fully half of the $340 million he has collected so far.
But records show that a third of his record-breaking haul has come from […]