Entries from December 2004

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

more on this fake Chistmas controversy

Liberals like Christmas too, at least most of us The problem isn’t that people celebrate Christmas, actually, most liberals do to. What many people, including me, object to is that Christians demand that Christmas be celebrated and that all other holidays are excluded. It isn’t that liberals hate Christmas, its that Christians hate Chanukah and [...]

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

The right war on the left and the ACLU

Flush with a stolen victory and a deeply divided America, the right has declared war on the left and specifically on the ACLU and non-Christians I’m not sure if the right is feeling galvanized and emboldened after the election, or if they are trying shore up support because they are feeling vulnerable. My guess is [...]

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Seriously, America, you are scaring me

A recent poll found that 44% of Americans were in favor of restricting the civil liberties of Muslims Salon.com had an article about the poll. I’m not 100% sure if I trust that Cornell students polling 715 people are accurately representing the feelings of the entire American populace, but even if that number is truly [...]

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

The Invisible

Portland’s next big thing? My band, transPacific, played a gig with Invisible from Portland, OR last week and I was pretty impressed. They have an excellent self produced set of videos that their songs are synchronized to. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill sync either, this is beat-break-beat kind of sync. They have a cute trick to [...]

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

A not very radical proposal

I’ve got an easy idea to build troop morale in Iraq. George Bush is going on vacation again. I can understand, since it takes so much energy to mismanage a country and cheat an electorate. Meanwhile, our troops overseas are having their tours of duty extended and being sent back repeatedly with only a few [...]

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

Philips GoGear Camcorder Review

I got this device which I mentioned previously on this blog for Chanukah, here is my review My wife got the many, many hints I dropped about the Philips GoGear Key019 Camcorder and got my one for Chanukah. She rules. Here is my review. This is a pretty cool device as long as you know [...]

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

George Bush doesn’t care about you

Just heard about yet another website soliciting donations to equip our troops in Iraq. Now how bullshit is it that tax paying citizens need to directly buy equipment for an unjust war to protect our soldiers while Haliburton is taking in record profits? Cheers to that soldier who stood up to Donald Rumsfeld in public [...]

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Milwaukee’s finest!

A leetle bit about Couch Flambeau So, I was home for thanksgiving talking to my sister and something she said reminded me of this great band I used to listen to called Couch Flambeau. They were a great punk band in the funny punk vein like The Dead Milkmen. She had two of their albums. [...]

Friday, December 10th, 2004

The Society for Handheld Hushing

I am now a fan of Aaron Draplin! Aaron Draplin of Draplindustries has created some handy cards that you can hand to that annoying cell phone user standing next to you talking loudly about something you don’t want to hear.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

Happy Chanukah!

It’s that time of year, the time for sorting through piles of red and green crap to get to the two blue and white things on the bottom of the pile. It’s tough to be a Jew in December. It’s got to be a lot tougher if you celebrate Kwanzaa or don’t celebrate during this [...]