05 Apr 2004
So the glorious Air America is off to a nice start. I managed to listen to the first few minutes of Al Franken‘s first broadcast before Real Player crapped out (I guess the servers weren’t quite up for the initial rush), and have so far only heard bits of various shows. For some reason it seems like I mostly hear Randi Rhodes whenever I tune in, and usually she’s griping about the same stuff over and over again. I mean, she’s a really good griper and all, but I’d like to hear a little more variation in the griping.
I’m not that happy with the schedule since I’m 6 hours ahead of New York which means that
The O’Franken Factor is splattered right across my early evening, the time of day when I’m busy with giving children dinner and baths and putting them to bed, but what the heck. I’m just totally jazzed to hear talk radio that is actually critical of the Bush-Cheney Axis of Fascism for a change.
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31 Mar 2004
Today is the first broadcast day for
Air America, a new radio network with a radical concept: Instead of loudmouth right-wingers commanding the airwaves, let’s showcase some loudmouth leftists! I can only welcome this. They only have a few broadcast stations now, but there will be a live internet feed as well, which means even us overseas people will be able to listen to the likes of
Al Franken and
Janeane Garafalo skewering the Bush administration, etc.
Hooray!
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18 Mar 2004
It looks like some congressmen are taking seriously the threat to American democracy that is posed by non-voter-verifiable electronic voting machines! The Verified Voting campaign backs a bill, soon coming up before congress, that will require electronic voting machines to be retrofitted with a voter-verifiable paper system by November of this year! Now might be a good time to go there, and write or call your congressman to promote this important legislation!
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18 Mar 2004
The Swedish word slut simply means “end” in English. This means that you see this word everywhere: Ends of movies, ends of stories, etc.
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18 Mar 2004
My fortune on orkut today:
You have an unusal equipment for success, use it propery.
I wouldn’t mention this if not for the fact that the short sentence contains two misspellings. Perhaps the ability to correctly spell words is my “unusal” equipment. I just hope I’m using it “propery” now!
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