Jeff Brazill at Au Fait has a fine and informed rant about the losers in the Virginia State Legislature, whose priorities are sagging.

At BumperStickerPolitix, Spin Daddy has a great George & Laura & Bill & Hillary joke.

The blog Damn Hippies is actually written by soma kinda tech-geek person, and it's good reading. Here's a post on the none-too-soon exit of CEO Carly Fiorina from Hewlett Packard.

"Che - Still Dead," via Random Nuclear Strikes, and a buncha other bloggers.

No driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. That's the gist of legislation the U.S. House may soon pass. More here from Diderot's Lounge.

Dustbury.com has a great reminiscence about early 60s pop-rock, and Del Shannon, on the 15th anniversary of his suicide, earlier this week.

Wal-Mart has shut down its first unionized store in North America. An economic decision and a victory for free markets, says Pieter Dorsman, at his excellent blog PeakTalk (which you must bookmark if you have not yet). BTW, Pieter has QUITE an interesting and impressive background, and now runs a finance and business consulting firm for early-stage high-tech companies. He lives in Vancouver.

And speaking of the glorious Pacific Northwest, my Washington state blogging comrades have been busy lately.

Iguana at Silly Seattle is doggedly pursuing the crucial "who" and "why" in the story of a de-penised statue north of the border.

Shawna is a mom with a six-month old baby, and she's blogging from the heart about a lot of family-related stuff, and social security reform. She's for it.

David Keenan has a typically thoughtful, discursive essay on diversity: It comes from a life richly lived. Not PBS, or public schools.

If you're looking for Unity, it's between Duvall and Carnation. Skor Grimm explicates this latest utopian community. Don't start packing quite yet, tho.......

P. Scott Cummins proffers a profile of the up-and-coming Seattle-based new media design firm, Asterik Studio. Scott - who always has an eye out for inspiring, and oft-overlooked volunteers, performers, and entrepreneurs, writes: "Asterik melds art with whimsy - and deep spiritual meaning with joy and humor. Amassing an enviable client list: hundreds of recording artists (including some of the biggest names in pop, hip-hop and rock), over forty record labels, as well as a broad list of accounts ranging from shoe companies to magazines, state agencies to furniture makers – they are clearly an emerging player from a business standpoint. (Partner) Demetre Arges indicated that for Asterik, music has been a catalyst. “We never would have met if we had not been in bands..."

You must read Amanda Witt, on "My Experience With Planned Parenthood."

And Seattle blogger Ambra Nykol, whose first guest column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer excoriates celebrity malefactors and our culture's eagerness to give them a pass. Keep your eye on Ambra; this young woman has a prodigious writing talent and a keen eye for telling travesties. I'm proud to call her a friend and associate. She's also one of the writers at the group blog Sound Politics, to which I also contribute. Here's one of Ambra's Sound Politics posts, "Parents And Their Right To Snoop."

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 10, 2005 01:10 PM

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