David Erickson

Snuffing Out W.M.D.

November 18, 2004

Sometimes you have games where you just catch fire, and when that happens, the breaks seem to fall your way, too.

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Blogging The Electorate Fantastic

November 2, 2004

I’ll be blogging all day over at my other site, Minnesota politics, for election day.

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Blogging By Email

November 1, 2004

The message below I sent on Sunday, October 31. It just appeared at Blogger. So, if you blog using the email-your-blog function, don’t expect it to happen overnight. Now I’m set. I’ve set up my blog so that I can publish via email. I’m edging closer and closer to “Being Digital,” with my new Sidekick…

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Kerry Winning!

October 31, 2004

With the Packers leading the Washington Redskins 20-7 in the third quarter, it looks like Senator John Kerry will defeat the incompetent George Bush. Thank gawd.

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Why Tim Russert Sucks

October 31, 2004

There are so many reasons why Meet the Press host Tim Russert sucks; this is merely the most recent: This Sunday Russert had former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As the mayor of New York City, Giuliani was by necessity and in fact, a liberal Republican. Sadly, he has since turned sharply partisan and…

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Sidekick II Arrives

October 29, 2004

So I finally got my Sidekick II. It arrived, I plugged it in to charge it. I slipped my SIM card in…a n d….it had to activate. No problem, I guess. I could wait the hour or two I was told it would take to activate when I ordered it. But then two hors turned…

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And The Band Played On…

October 25, 2004

…Without Ashlee Simpson You wanna see something painful? If you missed Saturday Night Live over the weekend (and who could’ve blamed you? It ain’t exactly the cutting edge of humor these days), you missed a lip-sync moment that should be featured on a pop music bloopers tape. Teen pop star Ashlee Simpson began her second…

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Planning Against The Vikings Offense

October 24, 2004

For my money, the most impressive thing about the Vikings’ offense thus far this season has been their ability to set-up the following game by the way they play the previous game. Titan’s head coach Jeff Fisher and his defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz need to account for Randy Moss simply because Mike Tice has wisely…

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Online Buzz – Vikings vs. Titans

October 23, 2004

This week, the Vikings again tower over their opponents in search popularity with the homeboys getting 3,895 team-related searches (an uptick of nearly 200 from last week) and the Titans getting only 1,797. (Read my methodology here.) Click for Large Chart With seven Vikings or former Vikings making the list of 2005 Hall of Fame…

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Rep. Mark Kennedy Vs. Patty Wetterling

October 21, 2004

I’ve got two pieces on the Kennedy/Wetterling race in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District at my Minnesota politics site: Running Against A Symbol discusses how hard it is for Representative Mark Kennedy to run against Patty Wetterling when you consider that she is the perfect cultural fit for this moment in American history, when a parent’s…

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