EP-RANTS!

TIME magazine notices E.P. while noticing Howard Dean!!! It's a real nice thing to be noticed. A few days ago, I had the privilege of taking a boat ride with presidential candidate Howard Dean from San Francisco to Marin County. I certainly wasn't the only one on the boat, which was a public transit ferry for commuters. I was amongst a gaggle of journalists, Dean supporters, and regular commuters that didn't have a clue about the guy that was getting all sorts of attention. Anyone that knows me knows I've been spending a lot of time following the Dean campaign. Three months ago, I attended the annual California Democratic Convention in Sacramento, where I got a chance to see Dean, Kerry, and Edwards deliver major speeches to democratic delegates of the largest state of America. Neither Gephardt, Lieberman, or Graham (actually undeclared at the time) bothered to show up at this event, and the other three candidates- Kucinich, Sharpton, and Mosley-Braun were

Bush Lied = People Died, and more adventures with the F.C.C. The Daily Kos came up with that particular phrase of " Bush Lied = People Died ", and I think it's an effective way to summarize the Iraq situation. The weapons of mass destruction have yet to be found, and the American government wound up spending billions of dollars for this fiasco that could have been used to stimulate the economy, provide health care, and strenghten the under-financed homeland security. Meanwhile, individual states are the verge of going bankrupt. The Whiskey Bar blog collected a bunch of different quotes from the Bush administration on the subject of Iraq weapons of mass destruction: http://billmon.org.v.sabren.com/archives/000172.html Mark Bowden, author of the book "Black Hawk Down," a tale of military action in Somalia that became a sucessful motion picture, was one writer that was originally in favor of military action in Iraq. His recent column- "