A woman who died two months ago won a county com­mis­sion­er’s race in Jerauld County on Tues­day. Demo­crat Marie Steichen, of Woon­socket, got 100 votes, defeat­ing incum­bent Repub­lican Merlin Feist­ner, of Woon­socket, who had 64 votes. Jerauld County Aud­itor Cindy Peterson…

Chat­ting to hasimir at pixiewitch7’s party the other week, he noted that if the Demo­crats got the US House and then they impeached both Bush and Cheney, the Speaker of the House would be Pres­id­ent. (Thank you, West Wing, for teach­ing us everything we know about…

Almost there: Demo­crats set to seize House

“Remem­ber, remem­ber, the 5th of Novem­ber, Gun­powder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gun­powder treason Should ever be forgot.” Read­ing Emma Gold­man quotes with Jack the other night. Real­ised she’d be locked up quicks­mart if she were around today, there’d be…

Last night was a fun­draiser for the G20 car­ni­val, held in a newly squat­ted ware­house on the corner of Urquhart and High Streets near where I used to live. It’s funny because I often looked at that place and wondered if it was squat­ted and thought about turn­ing it into…

Could the fact that Aus­tralia is still refus­ing to sign Kyoto have any­thing to do with the fact that a cer­tain journ­al­ist is very buddy buddy with cer­tain high-rank­ing mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment [1] and that journ­al­ist recently pub­lished an art­icle claim­ing global…

Some lovely anonym­ous person decided to hassle me about that poem I posted, saying I’m part of the prob­lem because “women like me” don’t do enough on fem­in­ist issues and that I hadn’t said any­thing in this journal about this moron run­ning around com­par­ing women to…