Plead the First

Greg over at The Talent Show speculates on Bush’s next pick for the Supreme Court.

Bush has reversed himself, and is reinstating the Davis-Beacon Act, which will guarantee certain wage levels for workers involved in Katrina reconstruction. Update: More details on this at the Working Life blog. Sounds like there was bipartisan opposition to the suspension of Davis-Beacon. Democrat George Miller caused the White House to blink first by forcing […]

No, rank-and-file Republicans, I’m not talking about you, but rather your leaders at the federal level. Via Chewie it seems that some bloggers were invited to meet with House Republicans at the Capitol, where they were to discuss “the House Republican record of successful economic policies, their commitment to fiscal responsibility, and the details of […]

The Parents Television Council recently named four Fox shows as being “worst for families”. From cnn.com: Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies “The War at Home,” “The Family Guy” and “American Dad,” topped a parents group’s annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing. The group’s president, L. Brent Bozell, said […]

Jakob Nielsen, venerable pundit of website usability, has published a list of the top ten design mistakes made by blogs (via Pharyngula). Here’s a rundown of the list, with some comments of my own:

The Dover Area School District trial is still going on, pitting Intelligent Design against Evolutionary Theory. The York Daily Record (via The Panda’s Thumb) takes a look at the recent testimony of Brian Alters as he examines the implications of the statement that Dover Area High School students are required to listen to. Part of […]

Via Jeff Thigpen, Guilford County has redesigned their website. Visually, they’ve come a long way: 1997, 2000, 2004.

Blogging was so much fun, I decided to spruce things up a bit. A little bit of Photoshop, an easy WordPress installation (courtesy of Dreamhost, my existing webhost for a different, non-blog website), and here it is: Plead the First. I still need to tweak and categorize some of my imported blogger posts, and my […]