Saturday, January 31, 2004

Visited States Nice app from World66 you can create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide. These are the states that the 'Ol Coyote has tramped around in. Thanks to WalterInDenver for the link. 10:51:27 AM

2004 Presidential Election Here's some more polling information for Tuesday's Super Seven elections from the Daily Kos. Here's an article about a Newsweek national poll showing John Kerry firmly in front and George Bush slipping. Dave Winer: "The American news executives who deleted the Dean candidacy through misinformation should do as the leadership of the BBC did -- resign and make way for an overdue reformation of journalism, and as a result the American political system. It's time. As Lydon tells us, the corruption isn't new. What's new is that it's visible now that we can inform each other without relying on them." 10:30:06 AM

Space The Hubble telescope my not plunge to a fiery death in a few years after all according this article from Wired. Susan Kitchens is blogging the Mars rover adventures. 10:15:39 AM

Denver November 2004 Election Bill Johnson laments the partisan bickering that characterizes the Colorado Legislature in his column today in the Rocky Mountain News [January 31, 2004, "Johnson: Partisanship rules roost at state Capitol"]. Note: Johnson is on the side of the Democrats in the redistricting battle. He quotes Sen. Ken Gordon, the Denver Democrat and assistant minority leader, "I thought, 'No way!' They would need all 18 Republican votes in the Senate and, on this, I just didn't think there was any way to get all 18. There were Senate rules that had to be abided, a public input session. There was no way they could do it." He remembers going in those last days to Senate President John Andrews to see if what he was hearing was true. He didn't know, Andrews said, what was coming, but whatever it was they would follow the rules. "That evening, the redistricting bill formally arrived, and they suspended the Senate rules," said Gordon. "I asked John (Andrews), and he said 'well, the rules say we can suspend them.' " 10:07:11 AM

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