Cyrus Farivar

Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker) and Jonathan Schell (The Nation) spoke tonight at a panel discussion moderated by Bruce Shapiro (The Nation, Salon.com, Yale University). Apparently there you were supposed to register, but I didn’t know that until I arrived with a guy from my RW2 class that I met on the subway, who had registered for himself and another one of his classmates that he was with. When we arrived at the door, the people at the ticket table…

Aaron, Vishal and I have started a new politics-focused blog. Come check us out here: http://thepartyline.blogspot.com/ Or add us as an LJ friend here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/partyline/ Comments/questions/discussion and guest-posts welcome!

[14:19] AaronSw> yeah, a minute ago or so someone said “the reason cyrus’s piece about podcasts was so good was because cyrus is a blogger” or something like that

It’s Friday afternoon. I’m here waiting for my number to come up at the Apple store in SoHo. My iPod is on the fritz, and my iBook crashes when I plug it in. Bad news. Meanwhile the new version of Thunderbird is not totally perfect yet and decided that it wanted to freeze when I would type an email to people. So most of the time here was spent trying to figure out why that was, checking the support forums,…

The simple fact is this: Kerry spent record amounts of money, collected the endorsements of basically everyone except Chuck Norris and still lost to a guy who talks like he’s giving a sixth grade report on something he didn’t study. “Mr. President, how do you feel about Indonesian President Yudhoyono’s recent actions in regard to International Monetary Fund lending policies?” “The thing about Indonesia is it’s got a land area of one point eight million square kilometers and its main…

I was going to do a story on this new art installation at JFK for Wired News, but a quick Google search revealed it was shut down a month ago. Damn.

Glenn Reynolds notes (via Bill Stuntz) : Which leads to a piece of conventional wisdom that’s actually pretty wise: America divides into red and blue because those are the colors the parties give us. Perhaps both sides need to see that the smart move is to paint with a different color. Purple beats red or blue, every time. In 2008, when Rudy Giuliani faces off against Barack Obama, those maps will look very different. Hellz yeah!

Courtesy Michael “Hagi” Gross: The Pastor’s Corner, May 6 2004 : She got baptized but she don’t know why All she can do is coo an’ cry ‘Cause when a girl gets elected inna bitta haste An’ don’t know His Saving Grace She gets sprinkled Inna shallow font No full immersion, just a front She’s not Jesus acceptin’ Ain’t nuttin’ but a baby wettin’ No, gotta axe Him be your Save-ya Your Faith professa’ Tha Bible tried to warn yall…

Bush wins the popular vote by 3 million and change. California approves $3 bil of stem cell money. Six red 11 states ban gay marriage, including Ohio. Cleveland Heights’ domestic partner registry, authorized by voters last November, will end. Five publicly supported colleges, including Cleveland State and Ohio State, will no longer offer benefits to unmarried couples gay or straight. For gays and lesbians, the impact is immediate, personal and painful. “I know of at least five families who are…

These early exit-poll numbers do not divine the name of the winner. Instead, regard these numbers as a sportswriter does the line scores from the fourth inning of a baseball game. The leading team might win the game, but then again it might not. But having the early data in front of him helps the sportswriter plot the story he thinks he’ll need to write at game’s end. – Jack Shafer, Slate November 2, 2004 That aside, Zogby says: Zogby…