I found this, part of an old public service comic book ad, on a blog called Polite Dissent which, despite the name, isn’t usually particularly political. More like the intersection of comic books and media with medicine.
The ad (you can see [...]
I found this, part of an old public service comic book ad, on a blog called Polite Dissent which, despite the name, isn’t usually particularly political. More like the intersection of comic books and media with medicine.
The ad (you can see [...]
As you probably already know, Republican State Senator Dave Schultheis shocked the public last week by accidentally saying something he really meant out loud.
He explained he could not vote in favor (a second time) of a bill that would require HIV testing for pregnant women, because it would help [...]
No, no one I know is getting married. I just ran across an interesting link to a page for some people who want to re-start the Whig party. Interesting stuff!
This could be an idea whose time has come. I’ve seen quite a few online laments in the past few [...]
The man can talk, you have to give him that.
Used to be I didn’t really care about watching political speeches. I figured I would get all the highlights online later. But Obama is actually making it interesting, giving people a reason to tune in and vicariously take part. With a [...]
I’m not that into sports, but I still like Tank McNamara. Strips like this one is why. (Width adjusted for your reading convenience.)
Past Posts (Personal, not Political): This week on The Neon Nurse’s Charting: One catch-up post, mostly complaints. Not exactly [...]
Wow, Betsy Markey, our new CD-4 rep, is really maximizing her Colorado time while Congress is on break. During her visit here to Lamar today, she said she’d been in La Junta the day before, and in Campo this morning. Next up were Eads, Kit Carson, and Fort either-Collins-or-Morgan…and that’s [...]
Before he left for the bus to school this morning, MrMike woke me to remind me that Obama was going to be in Denver today. He was almost as excited about it as if he was going to be there himself.
When I (eventually) got up and turned on my computer, [...]
The main purpose of county reorg meetings is to establish the party’s Central Committee for the next two years (or is it one? I think it’s two). Our group re-elected the whole slate by acclimation. We also added Mendi Choat, one of our up and comers, as Public Relations Director [...]
It’s 40%ing all over outside this morning, and a balmy 13 degrees as I write. Still, there is one sign of spring not smothered in snow, and that’s the re-organizational meetings for all county branches of the Colorado Dems coming up between Feb 1-15.
After kicking around potential dates and times [...]
Collecting action figures can be fun. Modifying them can be REALLY fun!
Because here’s some change I can seriously believe in!
Details, and more pics, can be found at the manufacturer’s site [...]
I saw this great chart in a diary from Meteor Blades at Daily Kos:
Colorado tops the nation (at 39%) for number of women legislators (state level)!
Yes, we can do better. But for now, yay us!
[...]Did you know that when you find someone you like to watch on YouTube, you can subscribe to their…YouTube thingie, and get an update when they put up something new?
Here are two guys I highly recommend. Roy Zimmerman writes great songs with scathingly funny, yet meaningful, lyrics. This one is [...]
Here’s an interesting project for the handyperson/renewable energy aficionado. The following links lead to two cool articles from The Mother Earth News Online, which were published in 1981. They tell how you can adapt a bike to produce pumping power (like for water) or even electricity!
The writer admits that you [...]
As a mom and grandma, I try to set a good example for our young people by aspiring to the Responsible Adult Way in most if not all things. (And sometimes not quite getting there lets one show the good example of trying, trying again.) But I have to admit, [...]
Personally slow. I admit that. Still, I AM starting up for the New Year finally, and that’s something.
Yesterday I was privileged to sit in on a phone-in conference call with SENATOR Mark Udall. He wanted to let everyone know he got sworn in okay and everything. Plus he is going [...]
*sneaks in like a certain other fat, jolly old personage*
Sharing these just for fun:
I made that ornament at a Christmas Craft event.
Last panel of today’s Derf-toon, but it says it all.
*sneaks away again*
[...]My current words: I’m still alive.
You’ve all been to those events where you introduce yourself by standing up and saying three words that illustrate why you’re there, who you are, and so on, right? I used to point to my hair and say, “Turning Colorado blue!” (And whaddaya know, it [...]
Les MisObamas!
This video was the capper on a really good day. I bought a new t-shirt:
I got a lot of organizing done for our local New Voter Reg/Switch to Vote By Mail project, and in the mail I got two BIG [...]
Wow, I really need to order some of those special days with the extra hours…I keep falling behind as new deadlines erupt!
Here’s a bit of cool news I ran across today. A rancher from the endangered Pinon Canyon region, Cathy Mullins, has donated an acre of land on her historic [...]
Not that I was there to see it. Keep reading, that event is today’s exciting ending.
As you may recall, on Wednesday I ended up sticking to The Big Tent rather than going out in search of excitement because I broke a wheel on the cart I was using to haul [...]
You know me, I hate mornings like McSame hates nosy reporters investigative journalists. But when sufficiently motivated I can grit my teeth and lurch out of bed, and that’s what I did at 5:45 am Tuesday, hoping to contact someone at the head office of the Daily Show and get [...]
It’s Friday again! Now that I have sorted out a few minor crises, and am feeling as close to normal as I ever get, I may be able to spend this weekend doing what I wanted to do LAST weekend — finish up my DNC report.
Looks like we’re up to [...]
Still trying to get my feet under me after the DNC extravaganza. I was getting around pretty well Sunday, but crashed a little yesterday. I hope I can finish off my retro posting in the next few days.
You may not know this about me, but I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. [...]
Just yesterday, I found out about a sort of contest where the public was invited to submit video questions for an upcoming debate between the candidates for the opening Senate seat here in Colorado, Mark Udall and Big Oil Bob Schaffer.
Mike wanted to help, even though I arbitrarily vetoed anything [...]
I’m still working on pics I took in Denver. There is one mental image in particular that has stayed with me from the speech at Mile High Thursday night, but unfortunately it’s not a moment I also captured with my camera.
You’ll probably remember the one I mean, though, because it [...]
Seriously, I did. All that walking, I imagine, since the food was great everywhere I went up there in Denver. (Hi, Carol!)
I had the time of my life, but it’s still great to be home. Sure, it means sleeping with a dog practically in my EAR all night, and getting [...]
These are pictures I took Monday, to show everyone more of The Big Tent and various sights nearby.
Both the DNC and the Big Tent folks are trying really hard to keep everything as green as possible. Here’s one of the stations where you can check out a bicycle to zoom [...]
I’m back here in the tent right now. After my last post Monday, I thought I would get a chance to write more during my volunteer stint in the Battery Recharge Room. But things got weird — more on that later.
Yesterday was an extra special event, taping of the Jon [...]
Continuing from The Big Tent:
I had just a little trouble figuring out how to get online here. There seems to be a general filter of some sort, courtesy the DNC. Once I logged in to that, things worked fine, and I have a nice fast connection.
So far I have been [...]
Wow. This is me, typing from inside The Big Tent.
Here are some notes I made this morning, just to get us up to speed.
7:01: Woke up before alarm went off. This Never Happens. Decided I might as well go with it.
8:15: Got 2nd to last parking spot at the LightRail [...]
I spent the day down at The Big Tent helping out. Even though almost everything I did was a sitting down job, I am totally squished flat right now. So this is mostly going to be a photo post.
They had the second volunteer training today. I’m glad I attended, because [...]
I promised a new fox pic for people who came here from links I posted around today, so here she is, napping in my friends’ backyard!
The only stuff I did today that was even VAGUELY DNC blogging related was touch some online bases and [...]
I thought I would write a little clarifying post about what exactly I am doing up here in Denver during the DNC.
I’m not an actual Delegate — I don’t even play one on TV. I’m not one of the Official Credentialed State Bloggers, either. (For Colorado, that would be [...]
My good friend Carol K has been house-sitting for my good friend Carol A. It is because of both of these super women that I did not have to scrounge for a $500 a night hotel room in order to be up here in Denver.
Yesterday Carol K and I ran [...]
Let’s do the good parts first.
It turns out to only be about a 10 minute drive from my friend’s house to the closest Lightrail Park n’ Ride. I was able to persuade the ticket machine to take my two dollars (and I got a quarter in change!) and a train [...]
What I have mostly done so far today is try to catch up on tasks I wanted to do before I left Lamar. Turns out there is a way cool benefit to sitting here in Carol K’s kitchen tapping away at my laptop — the VIEW!
[...]
I had planned from the first to go up to Denver a little early for the DNC, in order to spend some time with older friends before getting into the deep end of politics with newer ones. So when the state Dem HQ announced that Mike Weissman was giving an [...]
The drive up was great; quick and uneventful. A couple of times I was tempted to stop and take a picture, because the view was so huge, unusually green in spots, with cloud pattern shadows dotting miles of the rolling terrain. I knew most of the beauty was in the [...]
Not THAT much of an emergency, happily. I just have to hit the road in half an hour, as I have a meeting in Denver at 5:30. But I wanted to make sure my laptop is going to work okay for posting while I am up there for ten days [...]
…to fill the time available? And maybe a LEEETLE bit more?
Yeah, that’s been me.
Thursday I spent pretty much my whole day trying to turn THIS:
into THIS:
with the idea of printing it on royal blue t-shirts for the parade. This [...]
Turnout was huge here in Lamar for the “T. Boone Town Hall". The doors were to open at 11:30, but when I arrived at 11:40 I found disappointed townsfolk trudging away. The Elks Lodge was already full!
Knowing there is no such thing as no room for the media, I went [...]
I was just driving by the high school yesterday, on my way home from checking to see if the booths were set up yet at the fair, so I could measure them (Answer: no) and flashed back to February, when we were making preparations for precinct caucuses. August seemed so [...]
I know I am not keeping up well with life in general just now. Being in the part of the year where the overnight low is in the 70s doesn’t help. Bear with me and I will try to get back on the ball. Meanwhile, here are some great LOLz [...]
(Cross-posted copiously, because it’s just that good.)
I adjusted this Candorville comic to better fit on blog pages so I could share it as widely as it deserves.
If you don’t get it in your local dead tree news venue, Candorville can be [...]
I heard from several sources today that the Colorado Sec of State office has released the most current totals about registered voters as of June. The Dems have made something like a 30,000 person jump, which is good news. But the big change is that Independents are now the LARGEST [...]
Spotted on DemocracyForNewMexico.com:
The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund bought a racing Prius Hybrid and tricked it out with this great paintjob.
On July 3rd, a prime recreation night for car racing fans, they entered it in a race at Albuquerque Dragway! (No word yet [...]
Part of our reason for getting this trike was for exercise. I hadn’t quite realized I would get so much of the exercise just doing the assembly. Like so many other things, bike mechanic-ing is a young person’s game. If I ever have to get a job doing this, I [...]
This is turning into another Project Week, which is good for us here at the House of Unruly Fish (aka The House of 1,000 Unfinished Projects), but generally bad for blogging.
My project is an adult tricycle, bought on eBay, which in theory ‘needs some assembly’ but in reality is pretty [...]
