Monthly Archives: February 2008

TARC unveils a rap

In case you don’t know how to use the sweet bike racks on the fronts of a number of TARC buses, dig this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoFFg0W9UME&rel=1]

Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results

“If you can’t trust your shadowy overlords to keep a secret, what is the purpose, really, of voting in a puppet democracy?” Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early (JW)

The Nader candidacy

So here we are again: Ralph Nader, longtime consumer-rights advocate and lawyer, is running for president. While his candidacy was largely unnoticed by the mainstream in 2004, his run in 2000 is still foisted by Democrats as an excuse for Al Gore’s loss (or whatever) to George W. Bush, the Republican who would come to [...]

Bitch is the new black

Tina Fey on SNL (JW)

Churches can show Super Bowl

The NFL decided today that it will allow churches to broadcast the Super Bowl, reversing a prior policy that disallowed religious institutions from licensing the Big Game. Southeast Christian Church is pretty stoked. (SG)

KDP files complaint against Hawkins

The Kentucky Democratic Party today filed an ethics complaint against Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins, R-25, who is running for state Senate. The complaint contends that the mention of Hawkins’ Senate website, www.doughawkins.com, on his official council website constitutes a violation of the Metro Ethics Ordinance. It’s among the most basic of campaign rules: A candidate [...]

Photos from mountaintop rally last week

Ward Wilson provided these photos. They’re telling of the difference of opinion among legislators on the issue of MTR and the Stream Saver Bill. Here’s my story about “I Love Mountains” day. The photos below were taken after the major part of the rally, when several hundred people gathered below the Capitol in the tunnel, [...]

Barack, the hip-hop candidate?

“My raps ignite the people like Obama” – Common, ‘The People’ I briefly wrote about Barack & Hip-Hop on my blog today and found this on a friends facebook page. I could not see it with Hillary or McCain, could you? (pb)

L.I.F.E. Lessons

The 143 million lbs. of beef recalled Sunday is another example that Americans need to pay closer attention to what’s on our plates. Short of thousands of dying suddenly from contamination, food security seems destined to be one of the issues we comfortably ignore. Food justice and food security in L’ville (JCPS dumped 1,200 lbs. [...]

Where’s the beef?

143 million pounds of ground beef? Sweet Jesus! That’s what a California meat company recalled on Sunday, and it’s the biggest beef recall in the history of, well, everything. Much of the beef was shipped for school lunch programs. Mmmm. So today, JCPS announced it’s dumping over 1,200 pounds of beef. The recall comes after [...]