2008–2026
1,460 posts
2026 23
October 2026
- Looking back at the first decade of the Canadian Digital Service.
- Repetition Builds Mastery
- Incremental versus iterative.
September 2026
- Canada has a chance to rethink government technology.
- NYC can improve service delivery through better software procurement.
- On the types of vendor capture.
August 2026
July 2026
- I made a new bot (feat. Super Cat).
- Going beyond plug-in solar.
- The iPhone is the best webcam for the Mac.
- A “public interest test” for government insourcing.
- “I don’t want the government working efficiently, because that’s how you get to a dictatorship.”
June 2026
May 2026
April 2026
- Independent government cost estimates are essential.
- A standing disclaimer about my Agile procurement writing.
- Delivery deadlines are a mistake.
- Detailed deliverables are a mistake.
March 2026
- Capital funding poisons software projects.
- The Intergovernmental Software Collaborative has a forever home.
- How to foster better collaboration.
- Why government software is so expensive.
February 2026
2025 19
November 2025
October 2025
September 2025
June 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
- An RFI is not a substitute for market research.
- A systemic fix for terrible specialized agency software.
- Embracing Agile implicitly means a major shift in project control.
- Avoiding the “past performance” trap.
January 2025
- Don’t ask for references—seize them.
- Agile and IGs don’t have to be opposed.
- What if IV&V was actually useful?
- “Customized COTS”: When government demands to be lied to.
- The Frankenstein of Theseus.
- Why government software costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Explaining the risk of major software projects.
2024 4
June 2024
March 2024
January 2024
2023 8
December 2023
August 2023
May 2023
March 2023
February 2023
2022 3
December 2022
January 2022
2021 4
June 2021
May 2021
- The disconnect between software development and government contracting.
- Never contract for story points.
April 2021
2020 4
December 2020
September 2020
August 2020
February 2020
2017 1
June 2017
2016 4
November 2016
July 2016
2015 4
October 2015
September 2015
June 2015
2014 7
June 2014
- Dynamic electrical pricing demands dynamic price data.
- What’s wrong with Puckett’s resignation?
- Ethics and tobacco meet again in Richmond.
- Opening up Virginia corporate data.
February 2014
January 2014
2013 21
November 2013
September 2013
July 2013
June 2013
- Kluge subpoenaed.
- Bullshittery and bad candidates.
- Randy “Duke” Cunningham has been released from prison.
May 2013
- Ethics training in the governor’s office.
- A Virginia campaign finance API.
- Cuccinelli’s self-inflicted FOIA gunshot wound.
- Make money from home! (Even if your home is the governor’s mansion.)
- New site, new datasets.
March 2013
- I am one dog old.
- $500 speech transcription bounty claimed.
- $500 bounty for a speech transcription program.
February 2013
- Why fresh-squeezed orange juice turns bitter.
- Everything you want to know about gun violence in the United States.
- That “fresh squeezed” orange juice is anything but.
January 2013
2012 125
December 2012
- Turn-of-phrase inflation.
- “Opening Up State Legal Data.”
- Neither Cuccinelli nor McAuliffe can win. And yet one of them must.
- Michigan’s filmmaker tax break boondoggle.
November 2012
- Top Florida Republicans admit that “voter fraud” laws are about suppressing turnout.
- Just a coincidence, one assumes.
- Obama’s secret UN-led mind-control plot revealed.
- Government can’t create jobs. Except when McDonnell does it.
- George Allen says he’s done running for office.
- What’s next for the Republican Party after last night’s many defeats?
- On the proposed constitutional amendments.
- The New York Times is looking at Virgil Goode.
October 2012
- A conservative Virginia activist has been sending anti-Obama SMSes.
- You say Missouruh, I say Missouree.
- “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America.”
September 2012
- The politics of beer or the beer of politics.
- Feda Morton has been barred by a court from campaigning.
- Don’t average voters deserve a little representation?
- “TV News Search & Borrow.”
- Sweet land of liberty.
- Bush White House actively ignored September 11 warnings.
August 2012
- OpenCourt Wins Legal Battle Over Streaming Proceedings
- Request for Awesome.
- Hurt is failing his campaign promise of beating Perriello’s accessibility record.
July 2012
- 63% of Republicans still think that Iraq had WMD in 2003 and that the president is not an American.
- Muller concludes that humans are behind climate change.
- New Virginia Decoded features.
- 43% of Philadelphia voters lack photo ID.
- There is no voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
- Unsurprisingly, Medicaid helps people.
- “Yeah, no.”
- Racial resentment correlates with support for voter ID laws.
- The NRA just keeps going too far.
- Sunlight Foundation “OpenGov Champion.”
- Wikipedia: South Asian numbering system
- UVA hijinx.
June 2012
- DNA analysis finds huge rate of wrong convictions in Virginia.
- Michigan representative barred from speaking on the floor for saying “vagina.”
- Finish VDOT contract work quickly, get laid off quickly.
- Tracy Thorne-Begland appointed to the bench.
- 2012 is the hottest year ever.
- PolitiFact fact-checks Bob Marshall. (Hint: He does poorly.)
May 2012
- Congress declines to let people download copies of bills.
- Scientific American: NC Makes Sea Level Rise Illegal
- Opening up Virginia campaign finance data with Saberva.
- Our new ladies.
- Gay sex, civil rights, and star-spangled axes.
- Answering legal questions with Google.
- Plus ashamed bigots makes 51.
- Who can account for the missing nineteen legislators?
- The ten delegates who knew better.
- Romney’s classmates recall his assault of a gay student.
- Greene County Republicans call for armed overthrow of the government.
- Why the USPS is running out of money.
- Don’t miss the Tribune’s exposé of the flame retardant industry.
- Everything is turning into iron.
- How to decode law histories.
- U.S. Route 58
- A big clue has been found in the mystery of the Lost Colony.
- Virginia enters the 21st century with online lobbyist registration.
- Rep. Pete Stark accused—then retracted—a charge against a journalist.
- Miami created a park to create a legal reason to banish homeless sex offenders.
- Blogging at State Decoded.
April 2012
- Revenge is a dish best served cold.
- Anonymous $10,000,000 donation funding Crossroads GPS.
- Belief in evolution graphed against per capita income.
- The trajectories of life-bearing meteorites from Earth.
- March was the warmest March ever.
- Unsurprising research finds that some homophobia is rooted in homosexuality.
- Reliability is the most important professional trait that you can cultivate.
- Why you can’t infer the content of a law from the legislation on which it is based.
- House Republicans are looking to bring back the earmark.
March 2012
- Finally, a link has been shown between pesticides and colony collapse disorder.
- This isn’t how medical privacy is supposed to work.
- There is no correlation between domestic drilling and fuel prices.
- Freshman House Republicans aren’t the voting bloc that they’re presented as.
- Why must we insist that Bales “snapped” before murdering Afghan civilians?
- Scotts Miracle-Gro has pleaded guilty to selling poisoned bird seed.
- This American Life has retracted their story about Apple.
- jQuery.dotdotdot.
- The White House’s Ethics.gov promo video.
- AP calls out White House officials for anonymized press conference.
- Introducing Virginia Decoded.
- Not with a bang, but a whimper.
- PPP’s survey of likely Republican voters in Mississippi and Alabama is really something.
- That little waving cat sculpture in Chinese restaurants is called a “Maneki Neko.”
- Announcing Ethics.gov.
- Peanut allergies are fantastically rare, even among people who ostensibly have peanut allergies.
- CBS News calling a spade a spade.
- The final vote on 2008’s budget bill (SB30).
- The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against Cuccinelli in climate case, with prejudice.
- An archive of reports issued to the General Assembly.
February 2012
- The other reason that the ultrasound bill crumbled.
- Clouds are getting lower.
- List of the most common U.S. place names.
- It turns out that AIDS/HIV deniers still exist.
- The notion that the Bible prohibits abortion is more recent than the invention of the Happy Meal.
- Sixty people coordinated the largest-ever organ exchange.
- A strikingly effective way to ensure the success of disadvantaged students in college.
- 5 perhaps unanticipated effects of declaring fetuses to be “persons” under Virginia law.
- Pew quantifies the rise of interracial marriage.
- The New York Times points out an untruth.
- Virgil Goode is running for president.
- Apple, Cisco, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- An admirably concise definition of “life.”
- Possible Neanderthal cave paintings have been discovered.
- How Del. Marshall’s “personhood” bill would render the Code of Virginia absurd.
- I’m speaking at tomorrow’s Jefferson Jackson event in Richmond.
- A private open data reference for medications.
- Congress has earmarks again, they just call them something different.
- The AP demonstrates how to point out an untruth.
- The USDA has mapped out food deserts.
January 2012
- Warren Olney is emblematic of what’s wrong with modern journalism.
- Records about those pardoned Mississippi killers have gone missing.
- VDOT tracking snowplows via GPS, sharing their position.
- The Chicago Sun-Times will no longer endorse candidates.
- Disqus research finds that “pseudonyms drive communities.”
- Scientific American: The Impracticality of a Cheeseburger
- I seem to have this website.
- New York Times: Inside the Fed in 2006—A Coming Crisis, and Banter
- The New York Times is wondering if they should provide the truth.
- ESPN: Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray
- The Lookout: The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence—‘Technically, we’re in the United States’
- ABC News: Expert—Wastewater Well in Ohio Triggered Quakes
- Wikipedia: Academi
2011 187
December 2011
- Links for December 25th
- Links for December 19th
- My new project, just out of beta.
- Links for December 5th
- On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
- Links for November 30th
November 2011
- Links for November 25th
- Links for November 23rd
- Links for November 15th
- My new job and its effect on my blogging.
- Links for November 13th
- Links for November 11th
- Links for November 10th
- The booming small wind industry.
- Let’s run party leaders in unopposed races.
October 2011
- Are we really the Saudi Arabia of coal?
- Links for October 31st
- Links for October 27th
- Links for October 24th
- Calculating my home’s energy inputs and outputs.
- Links for October 20th
- Links for October 19th
- Links for October 14th
- Links for October 11th
- Hurt: It takes 150 times longer to start a business now than in 1987.
- Links for October 6th
- Links for October 5th
- Links for October 3rd
September 2011
- Links for September 29th
- Adorable puppy available for adoption.
- Links for September 27th
- Links for September 27th
- Links for September 23rd
- Links for September 20th
- Did Connaughton lie to the CTB and Albemarle about the Western Bypass price tag?
- Some of the questions raised by the approval to toll I-95.
- “Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
- It only took Allen a week to prove himself a hypocrite.
- Links for September 15th
- Links for September 12th
- Links for September 9th
- Allen says it’s bad to leave Virginia.
- An independent has joined the 59th House race.
- Links for September 8th
- Links for September 6th
- Eastern Shore ticked off the Commonwealth Quest list.
- Links for September 5th
- Links for September 1st
August 2011
- Links for August 30th
- Links for August 29th
- Links for August 27th
- Links for August 25th
- Links for August 19th
- Links for August 17th
- Links for August 11th
- Links for August 10th
- Congressmen are upside-down in a new CNN poll.
- Links for August 6th
- Links for August 4th
- More on my White House adventure.
- The merits of government apps contests.
- Links for August 2nd
July 2011
- Links for July 28th
- Links for July 25th
- Links for July 24th
- Links for July 22nd
- Links for July 19th
- Links for July 16th
- Links for July 14th
- “Federal default might be what it takes to right the nation’s fiscal ship.”
- Links for July 12th
- Links for July 9th
- These geologists who support Virginia uranium mining are familiar.
- Links for July 8th
- Links for July 7th
- “The American people.”
- Links for July 6th
- Cuccinelli has found support for a UVA ban on firearms, but I’m not sure he’s got it right.
June 2011
- Links for June 27th
- My new adventure: The State Decoded.
- Links for June 16th
- Links for June 15th
- Creating an API for the commonwealth.
- Links for June 11th
- I got an award from the White House.
- 97° of global warming.
- Links for June 7th
- Jeff Frederick running for senate.
- Links for June 2nd
May 2011
- Links for May 30th
- Links for May 25th
- Links for May 22nd
- Claudia Tucker, Wilkins’ eavesdropper, is running for senate.
- Links for May 18th
- Links for May 16th
- Links for May 13th
- Links for May 13th
- On trying to buy American-made jeans: A success story.
- Links for May 11th
- Links for May 10th
- Most Virginians support gay marriage.
- Links for May 8th
- Links for May 6th
- Links for May 5th
- Links for May 5th
- Links for May 4th
- Links for May 2nd
April 2011
- Links for April 28th
- Links for April 27th
- Links for April 26th
- Links for April 22nd
- Links for April 19th
- Hurt is “on the same page” as the Tea Party.
- My 15th anniversary of blogging.
- Links for April 15th
- Muzzle Awards announced.
- Links for April 13th
- Links for April 12th
- Federal employees as a percentage of the population.
- Links for April 10th
- Links for April 7th
- Links for April 6th
- State Government Finances in the U.S.
- The background to the redistricting process is starting to emerge.
March 2011
- Links for March 31st
- First thoughts on redistricting.
- Links for March 29th
- Links for March 28th
- Links for March 25th
- Tea Party disappointed by Hurt’s inaccessibility.
- Links for March 24th
- Virginia Redistricting Competition winners announced.
- Links for March 21st
- Links for March 19th
- McDonnell on open government.
- Commenting bug fixed.
- Everything that’s wrong with publishing.
- Links for March 16th
- Links for March 15th
- Links for March 14th
- Links for March 11th
- Links for March 9th
- Links for March 8th
- Links for March 7th
- Links for March 3rd
- Links for March 2nd
- Links for March 1st
- Bigger textareas mean longer comments.
- The Virginian Pilot’s verified commenting system.
February 2011
- Links for February 28th
- Links for February 24th
- Links for February 22nd
- Links for February 21st
- Links for February 16th
- Links for February 16th
- links for 2011-02-15
- links for 2011-02-14
- links for 2011-02-11
- How I OCR hundreds of hours of video.
- links for 2011-02-10
- Good for Senator Webb.
- links for 2011-02-09
- links for 2011-02-08
- links for 2011-02-02
- links for 2011-02-01
- That went better than expected.
January 2011
- links for 2011-01-31
- Legislative video sponsorships.
- Both legal and dumb.
- links for 2011-01-26
- How Instapaper works.
- links for 2011-01-24
- links for 2011-01-21
- links for 2011-01-20
- CNS does it right.
- links for 2011-01-19
- Memo to Virginia journalists.
- links for 2011-01-18
- Beagle Puppies for Adoption
- links for 2011-01-12
- links for 2011-01-11
- McDonnell straps on his redistricting fig leaf.
- links for 2011-01-10
- links for 2011-01-07
- links for 2011-01-06
- links for 2011-01-05
- links for 2011-01-03
2010 229
December 2010
- links for 2010-12-30
- 2009 McDonnell vs. 2010 McDonnell.
- links for 2010-12-22
- I want to capture this moment.
- Photography is not a crime.
- links for 2010-12-21
- links for 2010-12-20
- AMBER Alert API?
- Richmond Sunlight’s JSON API.
- links for 2010-12-17
- McDonnell is attacking public broadcasting (again).
- links for 2010-12-15
- links for 2010-12-13
- links for 2010-12-10
- links for 2010-12-09
- links for 2010-12-08
- links for 2010-12-07
- links for 2010-12-03
- links for 2010-12-02
- links for 2010-12-01
November 2010
- links for 2010-11-30
- links for 2010-11-29
- The unstructured structure of the Code of Virginia.
- Gilmore’s Secretary of Finance has been convicted of defrauding the state.
- JLARC: McDonnell’s ABC privatization proposal is full of holes.
- links for 2010-11-23
- links for 2010-11-22
- How will we keep an eye on redistricting?
- links for 2010-11-18
- links for 2010-11-15
- links for 2010-11-10
- Redistricting considerations.
- links for 2010-11-05
- links for 2010-11-04
- Bachmann can’t name anything she’d cut from government.
- links for 2010-11-01
- Hurt has filed a $1M lawsuit over a campaign ad.
October 2010
- links for 2010-10-29
- Hurt says he’d be more accessible than Perriello.
- links for 2010-10-28
- About the three constitutional amendments on the ballot.
- Cuccinelli: Obama says Perriello is his favorite Congressman. Really?
- links for 2010-10-27
- links for 2010-10-26
- Pre-mortem on Hurt.
- links for 2010-10-22
- Robert Hurt, flaming liberal?
- links for 2010-10-19
- links for 2010-10-18
- links for 2010-10-15
- Can your tap water do this?
- That explains why Hurt didn’t want to debate.
- Well done, WSLS.
- links for 2010-10-13
- McDonnell faked the moon landing with Elvis.
- links for 2010-10-07
- Clark has abandoned his professed beliefs for his own ambitions.
- links for 2010-10-06
- links for 2010-10-04
- links for 2010-10-01
- The Waldo Jaquith approval committee unanimously endorses this blog entry.
September 2010
- links for 2010-09-29
- links for 2010-09-27
- links for 2010-09-23
- links for 2010-09-22
- Virginia Laws.
- Gone metaphorically fishin’.
August 2010
- Congressman Perriello’s got cojones.
- It’s a family affair.
- “Geographically Inclusive State Song of Virginia”
- Can you identify these Virginia locations?
- The year’s first corn.
- Conservative poll shows Hurt leading Perriello.
July 2010
- links for 2010-07-30
- links for 2010-07-29
- links for 2010-07-28
- links for 2010-07-27
- links for 2010-07-22
- links for 2010-07-20
- Poll: Voters are confused.
- links for 2010-07-16
- links for 2010-07-14
- links for 2010-07-13
- links for 2010-07-12
- links for 2010-07-09
- links for 2010-07-07
- links for 2010-07-05
- links for 2010-07-02
- links for 2010-07-01
June 2010
- links for 2010-06-30
- links for 2010-06-29
- links for 2010-06-28
- links for 2010-06-18
- Hurt will, won’t debate his opponents.
- links for 2010-06-17
- links for 2010-06-16
- links for 2010-06-14
- Laurence Verga’s got junk.
- How we got our mortgage. Or: Why so many people bought houses they couldn’t afford.
- links for 2010-06-11
- links for 2010-06-10
- links for 2010-06-09
- Learn about Cuccinelli v. UVA at this Tuesday night event.
- links for 2010-06-04
- links for 2010-06-03
- links for 2010-06-02
- links for 2010-06-01
May 2010
- The RPV, caught in a lie, won’t even admit it.
- links for 2010-05-28
- links for 2010-05-21
- links for 2010-05-20
- The RPV doesn’t dare speak badly of gay rights.
- links for 2010-05-14
- links for 2010-05-12
- links for 2010-05-11
- How to have a house built with your sanity intact.
- The house is nearly complete.
- links for 2010-05-06
- links for 2010-05-05
- Family Research Council founder goes a’twinking.
- links for 2010-05-04
- links for 2010-05-03
- The state seal used to have more nudity.
- The Attorney General is censoring the state seal. Srsly.
April 2010
- links for 2010-04-29
- links for 2010-04-28
- Is it worth the risk to drill off Virginia’s coast?
- links for 2010-04-26
- links for 2010-04-23
- links for 2010-04-22
- links for 2010-04-21
- links for 2010-04-14
- The Post profiles Creigh Deeds post-election.
- links for 2010-04-13
- links for 2010-04-12
- links for 2010-04-10
- Sheila Johnson just can’t be surprised by McDonnell.
- links for 2010-04-09
- links for 2010-04-08
- links for 2010-04-07
- links for 2010-04-06
- links for 2010-04-05
- links for 2010-04-03
- links for 2010-04-02
March 2010
- links for 2010-03-31
- links for 2010-03-30
- links for 2010-03-29
- Perriello Virginia’s most frugal congressman.
- links for 2010-03-27
- And I won’t take money from Millerites.
- links for 2010-03-26
- links for 2010-03-25
- “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!”
- Perriello threatened.
- links for 2010-03-24
- Gas line severed at Perriellos’ house.
- Teabaggers threaten congressman’s brother.
- “Proposal To Shoot, Stuff Long-Winded Legislators Beaten”
- links for 2010-03-23
- links for 2010-03-22
- links for 2010-03-21
- Teabaggers upset with Perriello for agreeing with them.
- links for 2010-03-18
- links for 2010-03-17
- links for 2010-03-16
- links for 2010-03-15
- links for 2010-03-12
- links for 2010-03-11
- links for 2010-03-08
- Our house is insulated with newspapers.
- The Senate killed a bill to put their own voting records online. So I did it for them.
- links for 2010-03-05
- Verga clarifies. Kind of.
- Orange County has sued a couple who xeriscaped their lawn.
- Scooby snacks are made out of fetuses.
- Video of Laurence Verga’s racist remarks about the president.
- links for 2010-03-03
- links for 2010-03-02
- links for 2010-03-01
- The status of our house.
February 2010
- Laurence Verga, racist.
- National Journal Agrees: Perriello’s a centrist.
- links for 2010-02-26
- links for 2010-02-25
- The fig leaf comes off.
- links for 2010-02-23
- Bob Marshall, alienating his base.
- links for 2010-02-22
- Tom Perriello, demonstrably centrist.
- General Assembly Twitter aggregator.
- links for 2010-02-19
- Sen. Hurt is, in fact, the most partisan member of the senate.
- links for 2010-02-18
- links for 2010-02-17
- links for 2010-02-16
- YA5DR declares candidacy.
- links for 2010-02-15
- Steele connects with the middle class.
- Somebody explain σ 2 to the RPV.
- links for 2010-02-04
- links for 2010-02-03
- links for 2010-02-02
- The bill cosponsorship matrix explains the SB714 crossover vote.
January 2010
- links for 2010-01-31
- Bob McDonnell on The Daily Show.
- links for 2010-01-29
- Perriello proposes prohibition on foreign corporate donations.
- links for 2010-01-28
- The Tea Party: Just like any other political party, only hopelessly naïve.
- links for 2010-01-27
- McPadden on “when the going gets tough.”
- links for 2010-01-26
- links for 2010-01-25
- A majority thinker.
- Seriously. Get some.
- Siting our house.
- links for 2010-01-13
- links for 2010-01-12
- links for 2010-01-11
- links for 2010-01-10
- 7 West has wrapped up.
- links for 2010-01-09
- links for 2010-01-08
- 5CD Republicans have started their debate debate.
- links for 2010-01-07
- links for 2010-01-02
- links for 2010-01-01
- A General Assembly pre-filed tag cloud.
- The RPV’s revisionist time-machine.
2009 437
December 2009
- links for 2009-12-31
- Never mind the Republican whinging about the cost of a primary.
- links for 2009-12-30
- Another 3rd party congressional candidate.
- links for 2009-12-26
- links for 2009-12-25
- links for 2009-12-22
- links for 2009-12-21
- Robert Hurt has signed on with the free-lunch crowd.
- links for 2009-12-20
- links for 2009-12-19
- Crouching beagle, hidden wienerdog.
- links for 2009-12-18
- What will McDonnell do to fund transportation (if anything)?
- links for 2009-12-17
- links for 2009-12-16
- links for 2009-12-15
- Ditch your voicemail. Get an answering machine.
- links for 2009-12-14
- links for 2009-12-13
- 5CD Republicans will hold a primary.
- links for 2009-12-12
- links for 2009-12-11
- WSJ joins in questioning Goldman Sachs guns story.
- links for 2009-12-10
- Yet another 5th District Republican (YA5DR) running against Perriello.
- links for 2009-12-09
- Should voting histories be private?
- Gaming the frequent flier mile system via the U.S. Mint.
- links for 2009-12-08
- links for 2009-12-07
- links for 2009-12-05
- links for 2009-12-04
- links for 2009-12-03
- links for 2009-12-02
- Are Goldman execs arming themselves? (Hint: No.)
- Two political actions that I insist that you stop taking.
- links for 2009-12-01
November 2009
- links for 2009-11-30
- links for 2009-11-29
- High, Wide and Handsome.
- links for 2009-11-28
- links for 2009-11-26
- links for 2009-11-25
- links for 2009-11-24
- links for 2009-11-23
- links for 2009-11-21
- links for 2009-11-20
- links for 2009-11-19
- links for 2009-11-18
- The Hamilton case has gone federal.
- links for 2009-11-17
- The burning of Rep. Perriello has been cancelled.
- links for 2009-11-16
- links for 2009-11-15
- links for 2009-11-13
- links for 2009-11-11
- links for 2009-11-10
- links for 2009-11-09
- links for 2009-11-08
- With These Hands.
- links for 2009-11-06
- links for 2009-11-05
- Steve Shannon’s special IP addresses.
- links for 2009-11-04
- Campaign result apps blooming.
- links for 2009-11-02
- Share this precinct-finding widget.
- links for 2009-11-01
October 2009
- A prayer for Bradley Rees.
- links for 2009-10-30
- links for 2009-10-29
- “Jobs governor”?
- links for 2009-10-28
- Daily Progress: Cuccinelli uninterested in “agenda-driven change.”
- Groundbreaking.
- links for 2009-10-26
- links for 2009-10-25
- links for 2009-10-23
- links for 2009-10-22
- Bell accuses Perriello of negative campaigning.
- Profile of Eddie Cassidy, part 2.
- links for 2009-10-21
- Medical marijuana is legal in Virginia.
- links for 2009-10-20
- A profile of Eddie Cassidy.
- links for 2009-10-19
- McDonnell doubts global climate change exists at all.
- links for 2009-10-17
- The latest in a series of random guys is running against Perriello.
- links for 2009-10-15
- McDonnell loves, loathes gays.
- links for 2009-10-14
- VPAP is conducting their annual survey.
- links for 2009-10-13
- Norfolk vs. Vivian.
- FactCheck weighs in against McDonnell.
- links for 2009-10-12
- Giant puffball mushrooms.
- links for 2009-10-09
- With enemies like this, who needs friends?
- McDonnell caved on this business of a no-tax pledge.
- links for 2009-10-08
- Hurt jumps into the fray.
- links for 2009-10-07
- links for 2009-10-06
- links for 2009-10-05
- links for 2009-10-04
- links for 2009-10-02
- Limiting *nix program runtime.
- links for 2009-10-01
September 2009
- links for 2009-09-30
- A fifth Republican packs into the anti-Perriello clown car.
- links for 2009-09-29
- Cuccinelli: Shannon was once in the same room with a guy who knew a guy who was a communist.
- links for 2009-09-28
- Del. Bell is warping the minds of our children!
- More on McDonnell’s invented $500M from ABC privatization.
- The Post has highlighted McDonnell’s fuzzy transportation math.
- links for 2009-09-26
- links for 2009-09-25
- “Don’t be like that, baby. I’ll get you DMB.”
- links for 2009-09-18
- Cuccinelli logic fail.
- Sen. Deeds is pulling even with McDonnell.
- “Mass hysteria” at the Deeds/McDonnell debate.
- links for 2009-09-17
- Eliminating “waste, fraud, and abuse” won’t close our budget gap.
- links for 2009-09-16
- links for 2009-09-15
- Cordel Faulk will pass on challenging Perriello.
- links for 2009-09-14
- links for 2009-09-12
- McDonnell defends himself from himself.
- links for 2009-09-11
- links for 2009-09-10
- Perriello challenger Rees just got convicted on a guns charge.
- links for 2009-09-09
- The SBE will charge $25/filing for paper campaign finance reports.
- Shorter sessions and zero pay for Virginia legislators?
- links for 2009-09-08
- No complaining about sign vandalism.
- links for 2009-09-07
- links for 2009-09-06
- “Who cares?”
- links for 2009-09-05
- links for 2009-09-04
- We’ll look back and see this as the week that McDonnell lost the race.
- links for 2009-09-03
- links for 2009-09-02
- links for 2009-09-01
- Bonner & Associates lying about letter-forging scandal.
August 2009
- links for 2009-08-31
- links for 2009-08-29
- links for 2009-08-27
- links for 2009-08-26
- links for 2009-08-25
- The Hamilton scandal tells us it’s time to overhaul the General Assembly.
- links for 2009-08-24
- From the Department of Unlikely Studies of Virginia Electoral History.
- links for 2009-08-21
- links for 2009-08-20
- links for 2009-08-19
- links for 2009-08-18
- McDonnell will build HOT lanes with Monopoly money and pixie dust.
- McDonnell’s getting squeamish about abortion.
- Kris Amundson’s new job.
- links for 2009-08-17
- Tucker Watkins just making stuff up about Perriello.
- Some odd characters are lining up to challenge Rep. Perriello.
- Del. Marshall explains the constitutional exception to bill limits.
- links for 2009-08-15
- The RPV is distancing themselves from Crabill.
- links for 2009-08-14
- links for 2009-08-13
- links for 2009-08-12
- links for 2009-08-11
- links for 2009-08-10
- links for 2009-08-08
- A second candidate is running against Rep. Perriello.
- links for 2009-08-07
- links for 2009-08-06
- links for 2009-08-05
- links for 2009-08-04
- Astroturfing update.
- links for 2009-08-03
- Some questions for Bonner & Associates.
- Tim Heaphy nominated for U.S. attorney.
July 2009
- links for 2009-07-31
- Energy bill opponents forged letters to Rep. Perriello.
- links for 2009-07-30
- Where are the grownups in the transportation debate?
- links for 2009-07-29
- links for 2009-07-28
- Goode declines to run for his old seat.
- links for 2009-07-24
- links for 2009-07-23
- Republicans are lining up up to run for Saxman’s seat.
- Kaine’s DNC travel revealed via FOIA.
- A venn diagram of instability.
- links for 2009-07-22
- Teabagger is seeking nomination in the 20th.
- links for 2009-07-20
- links for 2009-07-19
- links for 2009-07-18
- links for 2009-07-17
- Del. Saxman stepping down.
- links for 2009-07-16
- Goode raises $154.
- Del. Saxman’s very complete campaign finance filing.
- links for 2009-07-15
- George Allen’s book, The Triumph of Character, is due out in June.
- links for 2009-07-14
- links for 2009-07-13
- links for 2009-07-12
- links for 2009-07-11
- Scott Rigell is running against Glenn Nye.
- Sarah Palin looks to the “Department of Law.”
- Virginia’s SSN protection doesn’t particularly protect them.
- Why I donated $100 to the RPV.
- Don’t trouble your pretty little head over Palin’s motivations.
- Teabaggers held a protest at Rep. Perriello’s office.
- Goode to make up his mind on a Perriello challenge soon.
- No filibuster, no imperial measurements.
- From the department of mixed metaphors.
June 2009
- You should follow this open government Twitter feed.
- Commonwealth Quest update.
- Perriello’s opponent is touting his qualifications.
- Kris Amundson is retiring from the General Assembly.
- Chris Anderson’s Free contains what is apparently plagiarized text.
- McDonnell refuses to sign an anti-tax pledge.
- Catching up with Abu Zubaida.
- The effects of VDOT’s budget problems are coming into focus.
- Saving money by downgrading asphalt to gravel.
- Fear and loathing at an Albemarle County precinct.
- Random guy running against Perriello.
- Eleven-year-old “terrorist” released from Guantanamo.
- Dionne: Advantage Deeds.
- The NRA’s endorsement quandary.
- McDonnell’s unenviable position in this race.
- Election stats.
- Republicans considering ’10 Congressional challenges.
- The Democratic primary got 46x greater turnout than Republicans’.
- “Democrats nominate and vote for politicians while Republicans nominate and vote for leaders.”
- Wikipedia’s role in Sen. Deeds’ nomination.
- The legislature’s most prolific copatrons.
- On underestimating Creigh Deeds.
- 5 things Terry McAuliffe plans to buy with his millions of dollars in the last 24 hours of the primary.
- SUSA: Deeds is crushing McAuliffe and Moran.
- PPP survey has Deeds dominating his opponents.
- Another newspaper endorsement for Deeds.
- Gubernatorial/presidential election correlation: Past is not prologue.
- Analysis bears out notions of Republicans in the House and Senate
- Gubernatorial supporters’ debate tonight.
- Guerilla SCOTUS website redesign.
- Data geeks uncover congressional corruption.
- Suffolk U. poll is a love letter to Deeds from VA Democrats.
- Governor’s race trend lines.
- PPP poll has Deeds in the lead.
- Dick Cheney backs gay marriage.
- Cheney admits the obvious.
- Is the local food movement a passing fad for the wealthy?
May 2009
- The Bristol Herald Courier has endorsed Deeds.
- Moran promises to fight Marshall Newman.
- The NRCC’s foolish claims about Perriello.
- Deeds is demonstrably more bipartisan than Moran.
- “Why journalists deserve low pay.”
- Burning my nonexistent Terry McAuliffe bridge.
- McAuliffe asks us to “think of the children.”
- Shunpiking.
- Is “conservative nightlife” an oxymoron?
- I’m leaning towards Mike Signer for LG.
- Jandd is a company worth buying gear from.
- Recommended: Jon Henke’s writings at “The Next Right.”
- The straight dope on the Sotomayor nomination.
- The American poor are the most charitable income bracket.
- Followup: The coming Wikipedia election.
- Conservative radio host surrenders after six seconds of waterboarding.
- The Washington Post has endorsed Creigh Deeds for governor!
- Congress enacts gift card regulation.
- Study: American prisoners more likely to reoffend than Guantanamo detainees.
- California demonstrates why ballot initiatives are trouble.
- O’Bannon’s giving conflicting budget stories.
- VPAP now provides sliced-and-diced election history data.
- A chemist has demonstrated how RNA developed.
- Norm Leahy is looking into the Faith and Family Alliance.
- Pigeon-guided missile.
- McDonnell. Kettle. Black.
- The new RPV chair smeared Eric Cantor in the 2000 primary.
- But why a moth to flame?
- Jeff Frederick isn’t running for RPV chair, but maybe HoD.
- A state medical site was vandalized, and the vandal claims he’s stolen 8M records.
- Lt. Gov. candidate forum on Wednesday night.
April 2009
- SUSA numbers show why McAuliffe would be such a poor nominee.
- VPAP is hiring.
- An overview of Virginia’s freedom of information laws.
- Indigent dental care in Virginia: An update.
- Oil industry knew in 1995 that they were causing climate change.
- The RPV’s new and improved newsletter.
- Torture OK was “a perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm.”
- Friendship extends lifespan.
- Mark Penn says there are 500,000 professional bloggers in the U.S.
- Microsoft screwing up Windows 7, too.
- Thomas Garrett is now representing himself.
- An xkcd collection is coming out.
- McDonnell opposes establishing a prison for Guantanamo prisoners in Virginia.
- This just in: Brian Moran is seeking the governor’s seat.
- Obama has named VA Secretary of Technology the nation’s CTO.
- North Korea: If you so much as look at us, it is on.
- Bowerbank’s campaign is raking in the big bucks.
- Sen. Deeds was right to skip the Shad Planking.
- “You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit.”
- The new homesteaders movement.
- Number of pirates killed by each president.
- 5 musical acts I’ve recently been surprised to find that I really like.
- The sad fall of the Republican Party.
- Aggregators transitioned.
- Spring is here.
- 5 likely candidates for the new RPV chair.
- Left of Center: Poverty in Charlottesville
- Is Sen. Webb planning to be a single-termer?
- DoJ drops charges against Ted Stevens.
- DMB rewards scary stalkers with studio tour.
March 2009
- Poll puts Deeds at top among 18-29 year olds.
- Sen. Deeds’ position in the race.
- Candy Review: Hershey’s Thingamajig, Wildly Cherry M&Ms.
- Feds can’t ID the source or destination of our food.
- Contemporary account of 1999 loosening of banking restrictions.
- The White House is planning a victory garden.
- A return to Waldo.Net?
- I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
- How does a Republican win in Fairfax? Don’t be a dick.
- Gubernatorial candidates “working” for law firms.
- Deeds has opened his HQ in Charlottesville.
- Goode is positioning himself for a rematch.
- “Put On Your Water Wings, the GOP Tide is Coming!”
- A thinker.
- Do Senate Republicans help or hurt Frederick?
- Del. Clarke Hogan is retiring to spend more time with his business.
- Mt. Rushmore in a half-million years.
- A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
- Random guy no longer running for LG.
- Buckingham’s Willis Mountain.
- Replace Jeff Frederick…with whom?
- Public Citizen, the VA ACLU, and the TJ Center are representing me.
- Republicans are getting burned on the mag lev talking point.
- Wanted: Open government heroes.
- Kaine’s successful start as DNC chair.
- Snow day.
- Tuesday’s LoC meeting topic: Remote Area Medical.
February 2009
- Parallels.
- Bubby Boobop and the Grand Duke of Razzmatazz.
- It’s all X to me.
- White House finds Bush’s hidden $2.7T deficit.
- Stimulus RSS.
- RTD calls out House Republicans on gerrymandering.
- The widening Republican rift on display in the House.
- Why we need enhanced lobbyist disclosure.
- Flickr is auto-IDing astronomical objects.
- Weekly spot on “Weekend Virginia.”
- The false hope of vitamin supplements.
- A new blog you’ll like: 123cantwait.
- Lamarck’s comeback.
- General Assembly holidays.
- Columbus discovered Facebook.
- Looking back on the Gore presidency.
- JJ Dinner Capital Correspondents Association videotape.
- “Motion to Compel” in Garrett subpoena
- Japan’s oyoku sound trucks.
- Sorensen is seeking applicants for three programs.
- God bless Jeff Frederick.
- NRO Columnist: Republicans’ immigration stance is dooming them to be a minority party.
- stimulus.virginia.gov
- Republicans in congressional delegation bail on meeting with Kaine.
- Autism/vaccine study authors faked results.
- Johnny Chung Lee’s newest project.
- McAuliffe: We must reverse this trend of victory.
- A history of Three Chopt Road.
- Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill.
- Grisham running for…nothing.
- Far-far-far right-winger running against Del. Vanderhye.
- McDonnell resigns, effective Feb. 20th.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press joins in the subpoena fray.
- Left of Center: Reforming Virginia elections.
- “A Touch of Wonder,” indeed.
- An extinct ibex brought back from the dead.
- Our Democratic nation.
January 2009
- Motion to Quash in Garrett v. Better Publications.
- 1920s-1960s Richmond photo archives on Flickr.
- Harvard’s CMLP has got my back.
- Wyatt Durrette on House Republicans’ tone deafness.
- A new study says mercury is commonly found in corn syrup.
- RPV “dysfunctional.” News at eleven.
- I got subpoenaed.
- Joe Stanley’s policy blog.
- Sen. Obenshain’s miscarriage criminalization bill.
- Democratic Central closing.
- His shoes were made for walkin’?
- Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency?
- robots.txt you can believe in.
- The Onion’s spot-on forecast of the Bush presidency.
- Werkheiser challenging Albo again.
- Help me rename part of Richmond Sunlight.
- Comparing Bowerbank and Wagner’s fundraising.
- Attorneys general have concluded online predators aren’t a problem.
- White House can’t meet its own terrorist prosecution standards.
- State senators form the Commonwealth Caucus.
- Edwards is apparently considering running for AG.
- The most gerrymandered districts.
- Moran paying for signatures.
- I need an LA as a Richmond Sunlight guinea pig.
- “I am five dogs old.”
- They’ve got sunlight at The Daily Progress .
- AT&T’s “American Idol” text message spam.
- Our vacant suburbs.
- I need an LA to interview.
- RPV claims Tim Kaine is breaking campaign finance laws.
- Mmmm….constitution…
- Sen. Deeds on local food and energy.
- House Republicans agree to live floor session feed.
- Another potential LG candidate.
- Two things I want from Apple.
- Phoning it in.
- Del. Athey’s wrong-headed university funding plan.
- A nation turns to frugality.
- Goode promised nonexistent funding to Southside groups.
- Del. Frederick says he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
- “Nevermind that unitary executive thing.”
- Looking back on Goode.
- McAuliffe is a candidate now, for reals.
- Fishwick exits AG race.
- Saturday’s drive.
- Unanimity in the legislature.
- Gov. Wilder has taken to blogging.
- Congress matters.
- My top 2008 listens.
- Albemarle’s useless DUI checkpoint.
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December 2008
- On Monday night, learn how Tom Perriello won.
- Astronaut boots.
- Del. Howell’s conflicting mobile phone ban.
- Del. Scott may get primaried.
- Zefrank’s “from52to48withlove.”
- 1B pairs of glasses for the global poor.
- Far Side reenacted.
- Tim Craig on the governor’s race.
- Is Boucher a harbinger of an urban/rural split?
- Some random guy running for LG.
- Cranwell won’t run for LG.
- Perriello wins!
- Goode floundering before foundering.
- A tweetable legislature.
- Apportioning electoral votes via the buddy system.
- Fannie Mae renting out foreclosed homes.
- House Republicans agree to halt secret votes.
- Moran gives up his seat; the fight for upstate money is on.
- The coming Wikipedia election.
- “Broken Government.”
- The truth behind auto worker pay claims.
- Lloyd: Should Spruill be paid extra to do his job?
- The C’ville Chamber has yanked the rug out from under Del. Bell.
- Democrats’ curious payments to Lionell Spruill.
- Christmas remixed.
- Blagojevich arrested on corruption charges.
- Overhauling the government/internet interface.
- Perriello outspent Goode by 50%.
- This weekend’s Obama moments.
- Rep. Jefferson loses in runoff.
- The RPV Advance is filtering out Shaun Kenney’s blog.
- Two new Democratic group blogs.
- Podcast: My interview with photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson.
- Frederick defends his Obama/Osama comment as “true.”
- 5th CD recount scheduled.
- House facing 15 bill/delegate limitation.
November 2008
- MZM investigation expanding.
- Tom Perriello needs your help for the recount.
- Perriello wins; Goode seeks a recount.
- Shaun Kenney takes my Jeff Frederick bet.
- Raising Kaine concludes their four-year run.
- Who will bet against me on Jeff Frederick’s reelection promise?
- Obama wins the loamy soil vote.
- The coming mammoth.
- Deeds watches the McAuliffe-Moran battle begin.
- How the Fifth was won and where it got us.
- The calls for Jeff Frederick’s ouster have begun.
- Dave foster
- McAuliffe: “It’s not whether I win or not.”
- Dave Albo vs. Wikipedia.
- A British tale of a conservative fall and rise.
- An observation on miniaturization.
- Media and bloggers fall for clever hoaxer.
- The Supreme Court is taking a religion case.
- Pruning real estate blogs from Charlottesville Blogs.
- Lady Bird naps on a 20-gauge.
- Richmond Sunlight on Facebook, Twitter.
- Maybe Goode spent -$1M on the race?
- 42nd district went Democratic, too.
- Democrat weighing a challenge to Del. Bell.
- The 58th’s move leftward.
- Incentives for G.M., not a bailout.
- Recommended bills on Richmond Sunlight.
- House Republicans to oppose nonpartisan redistricting?
- The dying gasp of the RPV.
- Martinsville: Stuck with the check and a worthless building.
- Perriello vote-counting JavaScript.
- A Goode imponderable.
- It’s composed of eleventeen countries.
- No write-ins for moi.
- Watching the Goode/Perriello tally.
- Obama’s and Democrats’ victory.
- Albemarle turnout report.
- How Tom Perriello’s race against Virgil Goode became an even match.
- Obama’s grandmother dies.
- A tired, happier McCain in these final days.
- SUSA: Perriello, Goode within MoE.
- Candy bars I have eaten recently.
October 2008
- The R&B has endorsed Perriello.
- What’s really going on with Goode and “Eden’s Curve”?
- Gerson: Republicans are a victim of their enormous success.
- Vern Rupright for VP ’16!
- The R-TD endorses Gilmore at arm’s length.
- Political philosophy of candidate, by top marginal tax rate supported.
- Fifth District gets competitive, at last.
- Flier tells Hampton Roads Dems to vote Nov. 5.
- Linwood Duncan quits working for Goode.
- “In Defense of White Americans.”
- A steady hand: Why voters are breaking for Obama.
- Can you help with some Richmond Sunlight technical needs?
- FiveThirtyEight visits town.
- From the annals of little-known survey biases.
- New year’s resolution update.
- Palin is the biggest reason voters are hesitant to support McCain.
- Have a very Annie Christmas.
- McCain enabling socialism?
- Common misconceptions.
- RPV/DPVA newsletter tag clouds.
- “Filth and Wisdom” panned.
- Black and white dreams.
- Kilgore’s tracker running McCain’s VA campaign.
- McCain has invited “Joe the Plumber” to join him on the campaign trail.
- Have there been any repercussions for Republicans supporting Warner?
- Richmond Sunlight needs some money.
- McCain’s vetting process fails him again.
- NYT creates a campaign finance API.
- “Tap Water’s Popularity Forces Pepsi to Cut Jobs.”
- “Goode Linked to Gay Movie.”
- Who is already sick and pale with grief.
- Open SQL Camp in Charlottesville.
- The economy has a well-known liberal bias.
- Meanwhile, here in the reality-based community…
- Frederick, speaking for McCain’s volunteer base.
- Bush-supporting Redskins are now “a blue state.”
- Republican rally audiences are riled up.
- Congress adds persistent bill URLs.
- Goode refuses televised debates.
- This American Bailout.
- Dusk weinerdogging.
- Bush hits 70% disapproval.
- “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
September 2008
- Halsey Minor: Not running for governor.
- I’m fighting mightily against using the phrase “flip-flop.”
- No winners, just a debate.
- Conservative columnist: Dump Palin.
- These Palin interviews, they hurt me.
- “Did I ever tell you what my mommy says about fighting?”
- The great schlep.
- “The Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery.”
- Super McCain to the res—. D’oh. Too late.
- The contest?
- Biden and bankruptcy.
- The ongoing Palin disaster.
- Our socialist president?
- This financial bailout plan is fishy.
- “The economy, stupid.”
- Halsey Minor for governor.com.com!
- Come to the annual Albemarle Democrats BBQ.
- Saving me the trouble of writing a punch line.
- McCain’s confusion sparks an international incident.
- The RPV’s newsletter takes a turn for the worse.
- Cousinly fun.
- Richard Cohen on McCain’s tactic of lying.
- “Americans are addicted to oil.”
- Berkshire Hathaway: An Owner’s Manual.
- Frank Rich on the presidential race.
- McAuliffe’s new accent.
- The unbearable lightness of tumors.
- Virginia’s leftward trend in a national context.
- Corn syrup industry on the defense.
- Goode doesn’t know who’s throwing his fundraiser.
- VA House Dems’ podcast series.
- Palin: Five colleges in six years.
- Obama ahead in polls.
- Why is the SNP missing a chunk along 33?
- Blue Ridge tour report.
- McCain camp can’t cite any Palin foreign policy experience.
- A Labor Day Blue Ridge tour.
- Irony, thy name is anti-tax Republican.
- Executive Experience: President of the PTA.
August 2008
- The RPV’s changing veepstakes logic.
- Terry McAuliffe considering a run for VA governor.
- “Farewell, Mr. Hooper.”
- Earthquake civilizations.
- Experiments with eliminating traffic signs.
- C’ville Democratic nomination party.
- Governor Bolling: Good for Virginia Democrats.
- Freeing us from technology.
- Lazy journalism.
- Sir Nils Olav the penguin.
- RoofRay solar calculator.
- Perriello/Goode debate, poll.
- “The weight of war on telephone lines is heavier every day.”
- Help me get clemency for Aleck Carpitcher.
- AG: “Not…every violation of the law is a crime.”
- GAO: Most companies pay no taxes.
- FBI admits to spying on reporters.
- The New Yorker’s fiction is terrible.
- Manhattan’s carless experiment.
- Now it’s real.
- Attu Island, Alaska.
- Come see Del. Bob Brink in C’ville Tuesday night.
- Contribute to Tom Perriello’s campaign.
- The halfway half-gallon I never had.
- Manufacturing to make a return in Southside?
- It’s time to tap into our vast offshore energy reserves.
- How not to unseat Virgil Goode: The Hummer story.
- “Hipsters: The dead end of western civilization.”
July 2008
- My Virginia belt.
- I passed the Goodling test.
- Promises gone by: a Bush budget retrospective.
- Spam assassin.
- Evolutionary forms.
- Replacing Twitter with a .plan.
- Murat Williams’ 1966 forecast of Virginia politics today.
- Michael Savage: Autistic kids just need to snap out of it.
- Confirmed: Iraqi PM endorsed Obama’s plan.
- On Amtrak.
- Trying to put the timetable genie back in the bottle.
- RNC, NRSC ignoring Gilmore.
- Christopher Cerf’s “The World’s Largest Cheese.”
- “Boggs: A Comedy of Values.”
- VDBA’s new director.
- Baarle-Hertog’s borders: stranger than Kentucky’s.
- Fundraising numbers.
- The wars so nice, we fought them twice.
- It’s funny. Laugh.
- Birthday pile in a sadness bowl.
- The Casio QV-10.
- No Twitter for you.
- On “On the Origin of Species.”
- Webb not interested in VP spot.
- Senate beer: Well aged, but with some compromises.
- 10% of Virginians are foreign-born.
- We’re parroting China’s own POW torture techniques.
- Deeds’ upstate endorsements.
June 2008
- Clever new milk packaging.
- Goode gets caught telling a tall China oil-drilling tale.
- Dominion won’t help you kick the habit.
- C’ville adding downtown WiFi.
- White House refuses to open EPA e-mail.
- Bob Marshall’s faux transportation bills.
- RTD calls out Republicans on VDOT audit demands.
- A lone vulture circles over the RPV.
- “We’ve squandered your money. We can have mor plz?”
- Your wish is JLARC’s command.
- Same-sex couple wed in Norfolk.
- Morgan Griffith joins Albo’s law firm.
- “Netroots Rising” website.
- Republicans are losing evangelical Christians.
- Ingraham spam, courtesy of the RPV.
- The newly-rendered heavosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
- No-bid oil contracts in Iraq? Whhhhhaaaaaa???
- Will nobody take the Gilmore Challenge?
- Ice on Mars!!ELEVEN!!!
- The snowballing of gay rights.
- One-word summaries of each day’s congressional record.
- £10k purse for proving homeopathy’s effectiveness.
- The first 2009 governor’s race poll.
- The Denton Valley offset explained.
- Taguba: The administration committed war crimes.
- “Dog on Fire,” it’s called.
- Comet Kid.
- If it changes color, call a dermatologist.
- An AFP injury.
- A challenge to Virginia Republicans regarding Gilmore.
- Del. Kilgore under investigation by the bar.
- Fear that new _____ smell.
- Goode snubs McCain.
- A bubbly review of VQR.
- Boston Globe on Vice President Kaine.
- “I’m Voting Republican.”
- Dems running in every Virginia CD.
- $1 pack baseball cards? Do I look like I’m made out of money?
- Bacteria caught evolving a major new ability.
- Snow Leopard.
- A happy ending for the kittens.
- C’ville water forum on Tuesday.
- Top Republicans hemming and hawing on Gilmore.
- Bob Marshall to join Hendrick Motorsports?
- State renting space in already-full prisons.
- McDonnell endorses a transportation tax hike.
- Speaking at the convention.
- Joined two boards.
- A reminder about “Warner Republicans.”
May 2008
- Frederick elected RPV chair; Dems to gain his seat.
- Warner launches general election ad campaign.
- Instantish aggregator updates.
- My RPV convention wish list.
- Do you really want to brag about that?
- XKCD NYT.
- On the merits of sales tax holidays.
- The first dance.
- Arctic ice shelf breaking up.
- Senate candidate walking across Tennessee.
- Virginia Republicans eating their own.
- Checking in with George Allen.
- Mama cat.
- I’m with Bush on the food bill.
- Foster family of kittens.
- Bob McDonnell’s statement on Kaine’s transportation plan, translated into plain English.
- Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade endorsed Bush.
- It’s Friday already?
- VQR nabs an Ellie.
- The cost of infrastructure is infinite.
- Oregon: “Our laws are copyrighted.”
April 2008
- Virginia political events calendar.
- VPAP relaunches.
- “Expelled”: No intelligence found.
- Talking heads controlled by the Pentagon.
- How much does a kilogram weigh?
- Brownlee resigning.
- I just elected myself chair of the Albemarle Democrats. It was a very small meeting.
- Elimination of the Automobile from Towns
- Our morality, shared and unshared.
- No need for those eight glasses of water.
- Global warming’s got nothing to do with the sun.
- Space Shuttle porn.
- “End women’s suffrage now!”
- Ol’ Virginia Soul.
March 2008
- Exercise slacker.
- 555-LIST.
- Gibson headed to Sorensen.
- Augusta Republican feeding frenzy.
- Our changing flag.
- New VA Republican theme: “No compromise.”
- Recorded on an answering machine? Really?
- Shall we require all children to eat their peas in order to have dessert?
- Database storage in a browser.
- Still busy with Richmond Sunlight.
- What 3am wake-up calls to the president?
- Speaking in C’ville on Wednesday evening.
- “He didn’t know me from a can of paint when he said all of that stuff.”
- Managing pests with hogs.
- Nearly 1M “terrorists” in America.
- Albemarle Republican chairman steps down.
- Republicans: We’ll fix transportation. By tomorrow.
- My (general) assembly line.
February 2008
- The coming suburban slums.
- Duplicate bill checking.
- Sunlight isn’t going anywhere.
- One in five statistics are invented on the spot.
- House video.
- House cuts drug court funding.
- The rise and fall of the RPV.
- AFP, Harris, Toscano and McDonnell. Oh, my.
- Lunar eclipse.
- Senate video on Richmond Sunlight.
- Mr. 19 percent.
- “Criminal Alien Sex Offenders in Virginia.”
- Swim little turtles, swim!
- On bullshit.
- Voluntary taxes.
- Necessary advice for House Republicans.
- 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.
- House Republicans start a video blog.
- Happy Financial Aid Awareness Month.
- Domino has a home.
- What’s not to like about stronger campaign finance laws?
- Local food forum Tuesday night.
- House Republicans boo C’ville Young Liberals.
January 2008
- Polydactyl cat needs a home.
- With pretty graphs!
- Joining the Commonwealth Quest.
- Virginian-Pilot on Richmond Sunlight.
- Legislator Google maps.
- An accidental drive.
- Dvorak. Feh.
- House Republicans who have withdrawn their own bills.
- A hand up is better than a handout.
- Bill versioning.
- Going all out with Richmond Sunlight data.
- Amundson hops on the Richmond Sunlight express.
- Legislation sniping.
- Whupped again.
- A great Photosynthesis portfolio.
- Senate in session.
- Visiting Richmond.
- VT at UVa.
- You let one openly gay man into the legislature…
- The bumpkinry of the Sahara of the Bozart.
- Reynolds is in the sunlight.
- Me and the Roanoke Times , we’re like this .
- Opencongress feature
- “I hope your sword is as quick as my x-ray machine.”
- Another delegate basking in the sunlight.
- On the importance of standards.
- Whupped.
- Del. Vanderhye integrates Richmond Sunlight.
- Legislators propose state budget website.
- Daily Press Integrates Richmond Sunlight
- Richmond Sunlight, meet blogosphere.
- Albo’s self-serving legislation.
- That does sound difficult.
- 5th CD Democratic candidate raising the big bucks.
- Tag clouds and portfolio listings.
- Photosynthesis: Now with rich commenty goodness.
- New year’s resolution.
- BMJ debunks seven medical myths.
- Tracking budget amendments.