Not My Mother’s Blog

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes, says the New York Times. Not surprisingly to those of us who know small-town politics well, there was plenty of dirt to be dug up once reporters got a chance to talk with people. Some interesting facts that turned up: – about the book banning rumor: The [...]

On one “social commenting” site that I frequent, the question of the $20 million Wasilla debt was was raised by one of the commenters. He linked to the official web site of Wasilla where they’ve posted recently requested documents related to Palin’s terms as mayor, including the financial reports from 1994 through 2004. Those reports [...]

In the words of Bill Engvall, “Here’s your sign.” Clinton had the intelligence and the wit to hang it on the wall of his campaign headquarters, and we could use a little bit of ‘Here’s your sign’ in the Obama campaign right about now. With the economy tanking, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being bailed [...]

As a web content writer, one of the things that I try to keep up with is the search terms people use when looking for something on the internet. It’s pretty important when you’re publishing web content because when you know the words that people enter into that little search box, you can try to [...]

Community Organizers Fight Back against the dismissive and disparaging remarks made from the RNC stage over the last few days. As a long term community organizer and supporter, I am far more than offended by the outrageous sense of privilege and disdain shown by the politicians that graced that stage. They want me to vote [...]

Not a lot to say about this other than that the idea totally tickles me: Even though Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites that inspired A-Space are predominately the domain of young people, there apparently is no such generational divide on A-Space. “We have found that participation in A Space crosses every conceivable age line [...]

Wednesday night, the GOP brought out Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle to drum up support for soon to accept VP candidate Sarah Palin. First of all, she is a terrible speaker and it was a terrible speech. I could feel her fingernails clawing into my skin in desperation for her party. You can get the full [...]

…that we’re going to see more comments like this one in response to a post by Matt Springer over at BlogCritics: My “knee jerk” reaction, from what I’ve learned so far, is that this woman breaks the mold in almost every conceivable way. I like women the way they are, and think they should continue [...]

I’ve found it interesting that so many commentators use Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy as a “McCain should have vetted her better” talking point. As far as I can see, it’s actually a major plus for the campaign in a lot of ways. They needed someone to counterbalance McCain’s perceived softness on reproductive issues – and Palin [...]

Well, Palin definitely has her talking points down… to wit: we need to free ourselves from the tyranny of oil by drilling more oil wells – and since I’m from Alaska I know that we’ve got PLENTY of it. Soundbyte: Some politicians promote their careers with change. Some promote change with their careers. We chose [...]

Google claims that their new Chrome browser was designed with users in mind – but Thomas Claburn’s article over at Information Week makes me seriously question that assertion. Quite a few of the browser’s features seem tailor-made to advance Google’s business interests rather than those of their users. For instance: Rather than blocking popup ads, [...]