connecting*the*dots

Steve Gilliard passed away today after a long recovery battle following open heart surgery.

If you weren’t a reader of The News Blog, let me give you a sense of Steve’s voice.

He wasn’t a fucking apologist.

Steve took a concrete position on practically every issue that came across his desk, and more often than not he was spot on, bulldozing double-talk, bullshit policy and spin across the board.

I never met Steve in person, yet it feels like I lost a close friend today.

You’ll be missed, Steve.

From Authentic Jobs:

Giuliani Campaign Web Designer and Developer
at Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee

Freelance | 11 January 2007
(Anywhere) The Giuliani campaign is looking to hire additional team members on its web developing team, including a part-time developer (15-20 hrs/wk) with experience in Php, MySQL, AJAX and ASP/.NET, as well as a part-time designer (15-20 hrs/wk) with experience in XHTML/CSS and Flash/Actionscript. Employees are free to work from home most days of the week but must come in to Boston, MA at least once a week for staff meetings.

Apply: Candidates must be in the greater Boston area. Please email Brian Feinstein at brian.feinstein@gmail.com to set up an interview.

Why would Steve be the perfect fit? Oh, I don’t know. Call it intuition.

Have you been getting little sleep? Worried about the state of our republic? Think George Bush is running wild without checks and balances?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you must read this post from “The News Blog.”

Great stuff.