Here is an excerpt from WhyWeHateBush.com:
Commentary ~ December 19, 2004: George Bush has been named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine, joining such historical similarities as Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Adolf Hitler (1938) and Joseph Stalin (1939).
Time’s managing editor Jim Kelly said the president was chosen for “sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for [...]

I’m up late due to a nap gone horribly wrong. nothing to drink/smoke. gotta do something before i can go to sleep. I know, I’ll push my opinion on others with some unfounded end-of-the-year music reviews! that always seems to please! This is the first in a three part series.
some of these albums came [...]

Tomorrow is the San Diego Bloggers meetup at 1 p.m. at the Lamplighter bar in Mission Hills. It looks like there’s going to be a pretty good showing. If you blog and you’re in the San Diego area, please come by.
Raman tells me he no longer reads this blog because nobody writes anything interesting anymore. [...]

So i’ve finally gotten me a job where i dont feel like a wretch coming home after work. Its not a temp job either. this is real work.
that’s right, I’ve joined the ranks of Thom Yorke and Ken Kesey, for now I too am an artist working at a mental home to fund his artistic [...]

Those of you whom have traveled in the developing world know that most tourist cities have two kinds of bars. There are the tourists bars where the locals go to meet (and sometimes scam) foreigners and their are the local bars where tourists go to prove to themselves that they are adventurous and multicultural. But [...]

Note: Read to the bottom to find out how to get your non-xmas present.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me
If you were a woman, who would you be?
It’s a question I had never really thought about and that’s what I told my friend. But now I realize exactly who I would [...]

The conservative Black Pundit and the liberal Latino Pundit have an interesting exchange going on about language in American society. Check out both of their positions and the comments below. This is what I commented on Latino Pundit’s post. Unfortunately he has HTML deactivated, so the links didn’t show up.
First of all, I seriously hope [...]

In my pre-Thanksgiving post, I wrote about my new-found desire to transcend individualism. Not losing my indentity, but working on cultivating the commons more than just myself. Joi Ito brought up a great online example this weekend comparing blogs and wikipedia. Blogs are very individualistic and egocentric. They can’t not be. Blogs are your thoughts, [...]

I’m going to start translating blog posts written in Spanish into English. This comes from Periodistas 21, a Spain-based blog which examines trends in journalism and the media. It recently won a BOB for best journalistic blog in Spanish.
Policy 3.0: The influence of social media
The Harvard Law School and Berkman Center for Internet and Society [...]

My thoughts about the conference are still forming …

The sheer magnitude of the data is staggering. As I write this, I am on a jet flying from my father’s house on Long Island to my home in Washington D.C., working on my laptop and listening to the Rachimaninov Vespers through a headset. If I were [...]