How to take your next party to the bank. The blood bank.

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A random collection of pics from the 2008 Community Festival weekend in Columbus, Ohio. [Read more →]

A new piece of legislation introduced in the Senate Thursday would remove potential loopholes that lobbyists often use when working overseas or with foreign clients.

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A bill introduced on Monday in the Senate would prohibit the Defense Department from continuing its recently-exposed use of government funds to spread propaganda.

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So, it’s official. Obama’s 60+ delegate surge on Tuesday has now given him enough votes to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. It’s a historic day, one that until a few months ago not many of us thought possible. I mean, everyone was so convinced Hillary Clinton was going to grab the Dem. ticket. Remember all the frightful talk regarding Obama’s lack of experience? What happened?

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It didn’t surprise me that the confessions from former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan included a few telling (albeit mild) insights into the Bush Administration’s aggressive “political propaganda campaign” to sell the war in Iraq. Dude needs to eat too, and admissions like these are the stuff book sales are made of. He really added insult to injury, though, when he said the press — our so called “liberal media” — should have been more tenacious in getting the truth from the administration regarding the existence of weapons of mass destruction and ultimately our justifications to go to war.

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The Senate in May passed an almost unanimous vote to nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempts to change U.S. media ownership laws.

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Leatherface is my favorite band, ever. They don’t get out of their hometown of Sunderland, England very often, and as a result I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing them live. They haven’t played a show in the U.S. in nearly a decade, and as fate would have it I missed them the last time they came around. In the years since I’ve waited patiently for their return, and as time passed those hopes turned into something of a pipe-dream: they aren’t popular enough in this country to financially warrant a months-long sojourn (and God knows singer/guitarist/ band leader Frankie Stubbs is getting old). So you can imagine my surprise when I found out a few months ago they were scheduled to play a few U.S. dates as part of a special mini-tour. Then came word of the inevitable complications: the band was only scheduled to play four stateside gigs, all of them on the west coast. To make matters worse, the only date that fit with my schedule was the show in Los Angeles, on a Monday night. Not that I was going to let that stop me.

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All good things must come to an end. Trite, yes, but I really don’t feel like pontificating on this anymore, and that goes both for the book and my dietary curriculum. The long and the short of it is I’ve had diarrhea all day and I’m really not in the mood. So let’s get right down to it, shall we?

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Falling off the wagon never tasted so good.

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