Plead the First

In the Local (High Point) section of today’s News and Record the top story was entitled “What They Earn”: They patrol your streets, collect your trash, patch potholes and keep the city’s parks clean. They run afterschool programs for your children and help them find library books. They are the city of High Point’s nearly […]

Greg over at The Talent Show points out an interesting dichotomy in the news yesterday: On the Democratic side, five congressmen were arrested for protesting outside the Sudanese embassy over the genocide in Darfur. On the Republican side, as many as a half a dozen congressmen may be implicated in a prostitution ring tied to […]

My first cartoon is in today’s print copy of the News and Record, in the Ideas section. I’ll be posting it here first thing tomorrow morning – as part of my agreement with them, they get it to themselves for a day before I can put it up here. They’ll eventually be posting them on […]

Mark Binker at the News and Record has a good rundown of info on the three Republican candidates facing off in the primary for North Carolina’s 13th U.S. House district. His post includes audio files of interviews he did with the three candidates. I noticed that the last audio file link for the Robinson interviews […]

A post by DarkSyde at DailyKos takes a look at one way to untangle the arguments surrounding global warming: One of the best ways to cut through the propaganda about the risk of potentially dangerous activity is to look at what businesses with a financial stake in getting it right are doing. Who has a […]

I’ve gotten a great response to my local political cartoons here at Plead the First. Starting on Sunday, they’ll have a wider audience, as they’ll be appearing on The News and Record’s Sunday editorial page. (Yes, the “Anthony” mentioned at that link is me, for those of you who were until now unaware of my […]

This is mind-boggling: andabien.com has posted an evolutionary timeline on a 135-foot wide webpage. Click on the link and start scrolling to the right (you may have to scroll down a little bit first to see the timeline, depending on your monitor resolution). Each pixel equals 30,000 years. This really puts the lengths of time […]

First things first: If you’re planning on eating anytime in the near future, I suggest you make Laurie’s Creamy Garlicky Tomato Soup. We tried it tonight. Very easy to make. Looks yummy. Tastes even better. Next: Has anyone noticed that the soundtrack to Fox’s 24 seems particularly good this season? I never really paid attention […]

I’ve noticed a few people linking recently to videos offering conspiracy theories related to the events of 9/11. While I think the Bush administration took full advantage of what happened that day to increase their power and move their agenda forward, I seriously doubt that they were in any way actively a part of the […]