I've been trying to avoid crowing too early about Tom Delay's upcoming demise. So there are mug shots, who cares. But this...this is just insane.

As you know, Tom DeLay has been criminally indicted for facilitating the illegal use of corporate funds in Texas campaigns. When he flew to Texas for his arraignment, he held a press conference as soon as he landed, and called these charges "contrived and baseless."

He flew there on a corporate jet provided for his use by tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds.

Hooray for absentee voting; I'm done already.

Last year, I was kinda surprised (and touched) by how many people said that they followed my voter guide. This time, I agree with most of Speak Out California's voter guide and have been pointing people in their direction -- but I'll devote a few sentences to why I agree below, and also explain why prop 80 feels wrong to me.

You'll notice that my rationale for the first few is more about gut feel than research. To my mind, that's a testament to how obvious many of these initiatives seem to be this time around -- and for none of these did it seem that preserving the status quo would be worse than the risk of changing things via initiative, where our elected representatives' ability to fix any mistakes would be severely limited.

Continuing my trend of merging everything to here, I've now backfilled all of the content from my underutilized i5tribe site. This consists of links to both DJ sets and original tracks.

I'll also be posting more recent stuff in both of those categories soon, too.