Lots of talk at UCSB today about the tragedy at the US Postal processing center located just outside our campus. The scene last night was apparently terrifying — a huge area where many UCSB students live was placed on lockdown for most of the night, and a lot of my friends slept with baseball [...]

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Our friends over at SpeakOut California have started a campaign to support the Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006. Go check it out and take action to keep Jack Abramoffs out of California.
UPDATE: January 31 — thanks to our hard work, the bill passed the Assembly and now it goes to the [...]

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Jerome Bettis, “The Bus,” is on his way to his hometown of Detroit with the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL. Check out his story on ESPN.
I’m off to LA tomorrow for the day, so blogging will be light. But, rest assured, the new episode of The Most Important Podcast… Ever will be [...]

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Ford workers at one part of the company’s iconic and cavernous Rouge River facility in Dearborn must drive a Ford car to work, or they have to park somewhere else.
I guess this whole 30,000 layoffs thing could have been avoided if only the workers gave their wages back to the company by buying a Ford, [...]

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Palestinians are once again on the front pages of the world’s newspapers, as the Islamist movement Hamas — famous among Palestinians for their social services and infamous the world over for their terrorist activities — stood for the first time in a national election and won a majority in the Palestinian legislature.
Everyone’s stunned that the [...]

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