PINKO DAILY BRIEFS. Grrrr. My therapist wants me work on expressing anger more freely. Accordingly: The Economist wrote this piece about President Bush and his efforts to gain a “green halo” by declaring massive ocean preserves in the Pacific. Fine. I know you’re The Economist, but are you really going to give it up that easy? [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: By afternoon today we should be back up to regular blogging speed. Hopefully everyone had a really great weekend like we did and you didn’t mind the lax posting. There are a few big themes for this week and stories we’ll be following. In brief, what’s up for the next few days:
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PINKO DAILY BRIEFS. So the guitarist Slash and his wife support gay marriage. How, then, could No on Prop 8 fail! We have been getting some interesting comments and reactions to this. It’s crazy “on the ground” here in California too, where the Chronicle yesterday ran a map of the zip codes in San Francisco [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Headed to the airport (so limited blogging today) but quickly … we’re heartened to hear that convicted felon and Republican bad guy Ted Stevens in Alaska is now losing his Senate race, as they continue to count votes. This could be one more Democratic seat, so blue “up there” in Alaska, as [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Remember how Starbucks used to be inevitable? The poster child for globalization and homogenous living and it couldn’t be stopped? Also how I couldn’t stop having those peppermint mochas at Christmas I’m sorry! Yesterday the released an earnings report and profits fell 97% last quarter! That’s a shitload. Partly it’s because of the [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: What could a really serious environmental agenda look like in a new administration? It depends who is running the show. This super Grist feature indulges in wild speculation on the people who could be the top environmental advisors in an Obama administration. A scary thought from John Heilemann, who wonders if Obama will [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: I realize my posts the last couple of days have been very serious, but Barack Obama and everyone keeps telling us that these are serious times and that we need to buckle down and sacrifice or whatevs, instead of talking about how, say, Sarah Palin thought that Africa was just one big country. [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Everyone is devouring every word of this Newsweek insider series on the election, right? It’s so good. A colleague noted this piece by Andrew Gelman as his favorite to date explaining “how Obama won.” Warning, it’s not inspiring at all — just some solid, hard numbers and the story they tell. Speaking [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: So much champagne! We will have a lot more for you today, and a little bit on where Pinko is headed now that our traffic gravy train has pulled into the station the election is over. 349 electoral votes for Obama (how great was it to see him take Indiana at 3AM?) [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Not much to say. I’m scared. I’m excited. Stirling and I (and the Pinko team) will be blogging all day. Since we’ll be blogging all day, I’ll say this in place of “daily briefs:” If you vote and something fucked up happens, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Or use this crazy twitter thing, but if [...]
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