December, 2005
December 13, 2005: Happy Solstice and other Holy Days. No, it's not war on Christmas, it's a BARBARian Christmas party.
December 9, 2005: Not Even to Save Our Lives. Mike Ferner, who has travelled with Christian Peacemaker Teams, writes about the members held hostage in Iraq.
December 8, 2005: Q.E.D. TownHall.com makes it official. The "War on Christmas" is a Jewish Conspiracy. Atrios is right. The right is ruining Christmas.
December 7, 2005: Out on a training mission last night, with the Freeway Blogger. Fun stuff, and any guy with Floyd's Animals in his CD player and whose hero is Brian Eno is good in my book.
December 3, 2005: A little break from the serious stuff to have a little fun. A Google Earth Tourism photo album.
December 2, 2005: Mike Ferner takes a less sanguine view of John Murtha's proposal in Beware Iraqization.
December 1, 2005: Subscribe to the Dr. Laniac's Laboratory Newsletter.
December 1, 2005: Support for Murtha. It's nice living where my representatives are progressives.

November, 2005
November 28, 2005: More on the weekend's memory hole relocation. A word of warning to the Bush folks, though. If you try to move the memory hole any closer, people won't even know what you said in the first place.
November 23, 2005: Casting the first stone. The pregnant teacher's story that shouldn't be one and the Catholic Church's problem with sex.
November 21, 2005: Protesting the Torture Taxi. A report from DLL's Senior Activism Correspondent, Mike Ferner.
November 21, 2005: TV recommendations from Dr. Laniac? Well yes. Homecoming from the Masters of Horror series on Showtime.
November 19, 2005: Reception at an SF gallery: snooty and bourgeois? Not if the exhibit is the Freeway Blogger.


"Arlington Midwest," a memorial of over 2,000 tombstones on display on the grounds
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary motherhouse, in Monroe, Michigan, November 18-19.
The IHM national headquarters building is in the background.  Inspired by VFP Santa
Barbara's "Arlington West," this memorial has been displayed three times in the Toledo
area since the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in March, 2005.  It is built and
maintained by the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition and members of Veterans For Peace

November 15, 2005: Parental Guidance Suggested. Another post from Mike Ferner, this one about military recruiters at Toledo Schools. You better watch out, Mike. If you're eventually successful, Bill O'Reilly's gonna sick al Qaeda on Toledo.
November 11, 2005: After taking a couple of days off the daily news round-up, I figure I owe the gods of blogging an offering. Thus, I present a first take at a proposed list of Republican House seats for Dems to target in 2006. And for the charts and graphs crowd, there's a map.
November 5, 2005: Prop 73, the parental notification amendment is polling strong. Gah! Are you kidding me? Proposition 73 is a stealth proposition to criminalize abortion by putting a definition of abortion as infanticide into the state constitution.
November 1, 2005: Chris Matthews: Liar or clueless twit? I can't bear to listen to Chris Matthews. He's an annoying twit, even if he sometimes gets it right. But yesterday, he was busy attacking Democrats with a talking point pushed by Drudge.

   In a 1955 issue of
Spaceway Science
Fiction, Criswell
predicted that Mae
West would be elected
U.S. President in
1960 on a pro-space
travel platform and fly
to the moon with
Criswell and friend
George Liberace five
years later!

October, 2005
October 31, 2005: Of interest to no one. Stats for the Laboratory's News Headline blogging for the year so far.
October 31, 2005: CNN Polling on Libby and the White House is out. Bad news for Bushie.
October 31, 2005: The media coverup.
October 28, 2005: Fitzgerald's Press Conference and Orrin the Pitiful. A brief overview and impressions of the day.
October 28, 2005: Orrin Hearts Ann. How sweet. How repulsive.
October 26, 2005: 2K Why? Today's freeway blogging-related program activities.
October 26, 2005: On the night of the vigils, a friend forwards a tribute. Bitter Fruit: a photo essay by Paul Fusco.
October 25, 2005: Fitzmas Eve Heartburn.
October 25, 2005: He's not Dick Cheney anymore. Now he's Richard Bruce Cheney.
October 24, 2005: A most important moment. The indictments may provide an opportunity to rescue the country from the neocons and theocrats.
October 24, 2005: No on Prop 76. (another cross-post from NorCalPolitics)
October 21, 2005: Arnold Inserts Foot Again. (cross-post from NorCalPolitics)
October 20, 2005: New logo, same old site.
October 15, 2005: "Miss Run Amok". Not only does that pretty much sum up Judy Judy Judy, they're her words.
October 12, 2005: Gah, another day, distracted from doing the news headlines. Responding to a complaint about the Indy Weblogs email list. Hint, registered Republicans don't generally enjoy listening to partisan Democrats discuss the day's political news.
October 10, 2005: Here's some ProgBlog Research Center stats for the last month: The top 50 recommended blogs. There were 2557 votes. Overall #1 spot goes to Main St. USA for most recommended and a close second on the number of recommended posts. Good job, all, and keep putting out the linky goodness.
October 10, 2005: We get letters. And submissions. This one comes from Joe Scarborough's personal watchdog group. That's kinda like an anti-stalker, I guess.
October 9, 2005: Introducing the latest addition to the Laboratory: the Congressional Rollcall Voting Analysis database. Blood, sweat, tears, caffeine.
October 5, 2005: I've just gotten some free time back. No need to research the background of Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers' views are irrelevant.
October 4, 2005: Always trying to justify my status as a mad scientist, I venture into being a mad political scientist. Presenting the latest entry in my Congressional voting analysis series, this time with charts and graphs: House Voting Solidarity, the graphical version.
October 3, 2005: Senate voting patterns. Follow-up on the House vote to weaken the Endangered Species Act. And a small preview of the coming web application.
October 3 2005: Mike Ferner sent me a followup to his Septmber 20th article about the anti-war march in DC. What Else Shall We Do?

September, 2005
September 30: 2005: Distracted from doing the daily news headlines by the daily news headlines. A few items required extended venting: My apology to Bill Bennett. Judy. That Genral's a lyin' SOB.
September 26, 2005: It was a techfest weekend project. Load the House rollcall vote stats and grade the Democrats. Most Republican Democrats vs. True Blue, not Blue Dog. And I still got to see Green Day.
September 23, 2005: BARBARians!
September 22, 2005: A couple of email responses. First, Senator Feinstein's response to my request that she lead in opposing the Roberts nomination. So, if Diane Feinstein can get it right, so could Leahy.
September 22, 2005: And then this one I got yesterday. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson organized an anti-war rally when Bush came to town last month to BS the VFW. I wrote a thank you. In resposne, he sent out a general reply to all those who wrote him.
September 20, 2005: Another guest post by Mike Ferner. Will we use the power we have on September 24?
September 20, 2005: Murder Most Foul Redux. I covered this story yesterday. Then I saw this on CNN last night. Dr. Perlmutter was interviewed by Aaron Brown. It's even worse than it initially sounded. The part about the people being left to die, when many of them only needed water. Utterly outrageous. Video of the interview. [update: commenter over at C&L links to the NPR interview with historian Douglas Brinkley, witness to FEMA negligence.]
September 20, 2005: An open letter to Senator Schumer. "Keeping the powder dry" by voting for Roberts. Oh, please!
September 19, 2005: GWB ain't no LBJ. Reasonable people aren't fooled by his words. Look to his actions. And to the goals of his pals at the Heritage Foundation.

September 16, 2005: As if: Bush pledges to make it all better. Is it unfair to compare Bush to a drunken gambler? I don't think so.
September 12, 2005: David Brooks. Back on script. Big surprise.
September 11, 2005: Help a blogger out. Arthur Silber could really use some help.
September 9, 2005: In a wild departure from my normally PG-rated site, the lyrics to a song I'll be working on this weekend: Hey, Mr. Cheney. Inspired by that doctor in Mississippi who suggested (on national TV) a certain vulgar act the Vice President should perform.
September 6, 2005: Just wanted to share. Some pictures from Erik at The Generik Brand.
September 5, 2005: Compare and Contrast. You may ask yourself - well...how did we get here? (Hat tip to B. Abell Jurus of Aggravated and PBRC Senior Editor for the inspiration.)
September 4, 2005: The worst thing I've ever seen. I'm depressed and outraged by the tragedies that have occurred in the wake of hurricane Katrina.
September 1, 2005: Preventing the third catastrophe in New Orleans. Time is running out.
September 1, 2005: Donate through the liberal blogosphere hurricane effort. Legit and backed by the big liberal bloggers.

August, 2005
August 31, 2005: New Orlean's TV news live and online. If you're looking for news on what's happening in New Orleans, here's the place.
August 28, 2005: Continuing investigations into far-right disinformation. The series continues, film at eleven.
August 23, 2005: Maybe everyone will finally stop listening to crazy extremist mullah Robertson. But don't count on it. And, am I the first one to notice he's said this before?
August 23, 2005: Back of the envelope: where's the floor in Bush's poll numbers?
August 22, 2005: Ted Rall and the disinformation campaign. A sidebar to the TBR/Dandelion Books story. An interview with Ted Rall about getting fooled by the lies of TBRNews.
August 20, 2005: An investigative report: Conspiracy Theories and Far-Right Disinformation. The rabbit hole goes much deeper than you would ever believe. Or so the conspiracy theorists of the world would have you believe. But dig behind the scenes of the conspiracy crowd, and you'll find another conspiracy.
August 13, 2005: I just gave NARAL $50. I encourage you to do the same.
August 13, 2005: The Roberts nominiation is also a sellout of the religious right. Bush has his own reasons, which are something both right and left should fear.
August 13, 2005: Cindy Sheehan is asking the right question. And there's a follow-up question that needs to be asked.
August 13, 2005: Playing catch-up. Busy, away, sick, busy and now back.
August 1, 2005: Being away from the lab hasn't stopped me from shopping from shopping for my traditional new summer t-shirts. 

July, 2005
July 19, 2005: Blocking the release of the torture photos: The emporer attempts to hide his nakedness.
July 18, 2005: Fascism Cola. The family behind Rock Star Energy Drink. I've been explaining who Russell Weiner and his father Michael Savage are to shopkeepers. I decided a little hand-out might be in order.
July 16, 2005: Why do Republicans hate America? No, seriously. It's more than just Rove/Traitor-gate. It's every single thing.
July 16, 2005: July music downloads. A shout out to fans in Turkey and the UK.
July 15, 2005: Oh, Poor Karl! He was just a pawn of the undead journalist, Bob Novak. Uh, huh. Sure.
July 13, 2005: Rove spin. It's making me dizzy, and more than slightly nauseous.
July 11, 2005: Frogmarching to, um, victory... or something. Yes, it really is possible we might get to see Rove in handcuffs. Will the White House ask him to spend more time with his family before it comes to that?
July 4, 2005: Börk Börk Börk. Ruminations on a four letter word. Bork (verb).
July 1, 2005: C. Boyden Gray, a news analyst with a dog in the fight.



Sorry dude, your nomination borked cuz yer a loon.