Albuquerque Join The Impact (with pics)
Over 1,000 people joined together in Albuquerque, NM this morning for Join The Impact. On the drive there, I figured there might be a few dozen people, but really had no idea what to expect. I've been to plenty of marriage equality events in San Fr...
Join the Impact - Seattle
Seattle has our back. Big time. This picture at right is of the huge march down Broadway in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood - the Emeral...
Join the Impact: San Francisco
I knew this protest was going to be big when I got to the MUNI station at Castro and it was overflowing with people. Being agoraphobic, I chose to walk to City Hall instead. Block by block, the crowd that I was walking with became bigger and bigger. ...
Join the Impact - Over 1,000 in Downtown Ventura
Yes, Ventura, there is a Progressive Left--and it came in force today for Join the Impact. It's a common joke here that we live in "Ventucky...
Join the Impact--Los Angeles
About thirty of us gathered in front of the closed Starbucks on the plaza in front of the LA courthouse to assemble our petition materials for the rally and march a few blocks away. MoveOn.org, Courage Campaign (full disclosure: I founded Courage) and Cre...
The Fires
Here in Southern California, if you sit outside for more than half a minute you're bound to see some pieces of ash falling on your head. The entire region is bathed in a film, the air quality is miserable, and the horizon is barely discernible. &nbs...
The Long Tail and CDP Elections
Looking east from San Francisco or LA or even Sacramento, with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see this cycle's high water mark, where the Obama tsunami peaked and crashed back towards Chicago.
Homages aside, the real lesson is what has happened...
Mormons Feal the Heat for Bigotry
The LA Times points out what everyone knows:
In June, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a fateful decision. They cal...
The thin blue line
I took another look at the excellent election result maps produced by Mark Newman at the University of Michigan. I was struck by the tremendous geographic range of counties where McCain-Pali...
Holy Cow! National Day of Protest vs. Prop 8
Wow wow wow. Andrew Sullivan's got photos from all over the world of the National Day of Protest against California's Prop 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal in California...
Myth of Poor Democratic Performance Demolished
Andrew Gelman: "The data demolish the idea that voters in 2008 were pulling the lever for Barack but not for the Dems overall (not for "Nancy Pelosi," if you will)." Click here for the stats.
Partners' pig-in-a-poke
You might think that if you pay the premium for the fancy downtown hospitals (under Partners HealthCare) that you'd be getting the tip-top quality you and your insurer are paying for. You'd be wrong about that.
Destructive Destruction
Back in 1986 we bought our first station wagon to serve our growing family. It was a Chevrolet Celebrity and ran well for more than 10 years. I didn't question the $200 "destination charge" on the invoice, but when we got the Chevy home, I noticed on the ...
