The old way for finding something on a blog (apart from Google) was to track down the archive for the month or week you expected relevant pieces to be in.

For reasons I don't understand, the current setup doesn't allow this.

Also, the search page (so far as I'm aware) doesn't allowing searching within a particular diarist's stuff.

(So, if I know I've written something about Bayh some weeks ago, even if I know roughly when, I can't browse an archive of the week in question. And I can't (or so I believe) search my stuff (and my stuff alone) for pieces mentioning Bayh. I have to search all the diaries from Day 1. (And Bayh is such a popular guy...)

Doesn't Scoop allow for the sort of advanced search page that Google has: so that one could narrow down to a particular diary, particular writer in comments, particular date range.

There's a lot of good stuff being written here and it's a shame that it effectively disappears down the memory-hole, except at the whim of Mr Google.

I guess Bush approves of speaking Spanish only when it benefits him.  Just how much did he spend on advertising in Spanish when he ran for office?

The Talent Show:

Apparently George Bush has decided that this year it's more important to kiss xenophobic, conservative asses than hard-working, Latino asses.

"Soy George W. Bush y aprobé este mensaje."

The Carter Campaign in Nevada has been going well.  He was recently up in Incline, NV (near Lake Tahoe), and got some really great feedback.  The North Lake Tahoe Bonanza has the story.  The article is titled "Carter wows bi-partisan Incline crowd," and it has some great quotes from people who attended the event:

"I am a Democrat and my husband is a Republican," said Incline resident Jane Hoff. "But we vote for the best candidate. Carter has really brought some people out here tonight and made them think."

. . .

Incline resident Andy Whyman thought he saw something good in Carter as he noted the senatorial candidate is campaigning in a way that may be a better solution for the country.

"He's not a sleek politician, just an intelligent fellow with a honest and good heart," Whyman said. "That's what we need a return to, someone that doesn't get bogged down in partisan issues or divisiveness, someone you can trust."

. . .

Bob Westervelt, a Republican, watched Carter speak and recalled a few months in 1976 when he served as security for Jimmy during the Democratic Convention.

"Regardless of (politics) the Carters are nice people," Westervelt said. "There are quite a few people like me, Republicans that are fed up with this (administration), with getting lied to. We need good people."

Sarah

As a technical aside, Spanish happens to be recognized as an official language (i.e., a language of the government) in the state of New Mexico. It seems pretty weird to me to prohibit the citizens from singing their national anthem in (one of) their home state's official language(s).

According to the Boston Herald, Kennedy said to lefty blog favorite Chris Matthews à propos the anthem

Should it be sung as representation of this country in English? The answer is yes.

Even so...

Alexander's resolution, BTW, is not on THOMAS yet, but is, I fancy, a simple resolution - which, of course, would have no legislative effect, pace Chris.

I suspect it will never see the light of day: there are ways and means of putting the res on the Calendar, whence it could be called off at will by the Video Doctor. I think it'll be deep-sixed in committee.

Don't be encouraged by Devolites saying Webb will do well against Allen.  Webb is going down like $5 whore.  He has no money and no campaign message.  He talks about economic populism in a state where most people think the economy is growing.  People should focus their time and energy elsewhere, James Webb is a big waste of time.