Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Living in the middle of nowhere, it sometimes feels like we're insulated from larger national events. Housing values in our part of Colorado have actually remained fairly stable, etc. But I've just heard about a couple of friends, one a software developer at a major software company who has ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
... but it doesn't reflect well on a America as whole, either.
Because even if this GOP group is getting dinged for putting it out publicly, it means there's a whole ecosystem of low-life Americans gleefully generating this stuff and passing it around, winking and flashing their hate signs just below ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Buckley's son is hunted out of the National Review for the heresy of endorsing Obama.
I like how Republicans deal with dissent. All or nothing. And if you respectfully disagree... WALK THE PLANK!
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Interesting.
via Andew Sullivan.
The actual ad in the game is a reminder that early voting has started. Not message oriented at all. Mobilization oriented to a demographic he has been cultivating.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I actually liked McCain, back in the day when he was against "agents of intolerance" as he called the Christian right. These days he's a got a pastor opening a crowd in Iowa with the following:
"I also would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Pop Quiz: which of these is more important?
A. The banking industry is in free fall and the problem is spreading.
B. There's methane bubbling out of the Arctic.
To me, the really interesting thing about this period in history is the amount of uncertainty over what story lines will dominate our ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
I just posted some of my problems with the Sarah Palin vp pick and Aaron posed this interesting question:
Serious question, Paolo: Do you think authors blogging about their views on the election can undercut their fiction?
It is very difficult to experience the fiction of Orson Scott Card or ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Latest in the Bisphenol-A tussle. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26736202/
I have a feeling this will just keep going drip drip drip with the American Chemistry Council blustering about how all the studies are flawed and finally, in about ten years, everyone will say, yeah, we really should have banned this stuff a long ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I'm just saying.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I ran across this quote a while ago, and it's been running around in my head:
"My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober."
-- GK Chesterton
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