Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
St. Peter on Sarah Palin:
Yet I think she may be something more important, and more American, than a libertarian: an individual. Not some plastic cookie-cutter politician who exists only to curry favor and buy votes, but a real person who thinks and acts for herself.
Her individualism is outweighed by what ...
Posted in Politics |
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Seven years later, airport security theater is an inconvenient joke, international relations are disconcertingly poor, the dollar is dropping, we're engaged in an expensive and unjust war, and the site of this tragedy remains an empty and ignored hole in the ground. Worst of all, the man responsible continues to ...
Posted in News, Politics |
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Jon Stewart, turning the mirror on Palin's defenders.
Posted in Politics, Television, Video |
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
In case you missed it (like me), iTunes has a full-video "podcast" of Obama's speech.
Posted in Apple, Politics |
Friday, August 29th, 2008
I picked the ABC News story because of this sentence:
The Republican contender will tap first-term Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, ABC News reports.
Tee hee.
First-term governor? Clearly she was chosen for her experience.
Posted in Politics |
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
As you may have discovered at 3AM when the Obama camp hurriedly sent a text message announcement to sleeping supporters, Obama has selected his running mate: Joe Biden. From MSNBC:
Barack Obama named Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned ...
Posted in Politics |
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
From Kotaku:
Microsoft is teaming up with Rock the Vote to allow gamers to register to vote on Xbox Live. The Pwn the Vote initiative (OK, i just made that up, they're calling it Rock the Vote still) will allow Xbox Live members of all races, creeds and payment tiers to ...
Posted in Games, Politics |
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
So this guy is running for office in Kansas and wants money. Why should you care? Perhaps because of the clever homage (or blatant ripoff) he's using to appeal to his target voting demographic. He seems like an incremental step forward, even if his campaign site does feature a photo ...
Posted in Politics |
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
This just in, Obama is not perfect. From the New York Times:
Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters.
Thousands of them are ...
Posted in Politics |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Corey Gilmore evaluates the contact pages of the two major candidates:
The most obvious reason for the differences between the two sites would be that McCain's strategy folks haven't had a hand in his contact page and it was done by web developers who don't have any vision. I assume this ...
Posted in Politics |
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams refuse to vote because of their religion.
Younger sister Serena said she was "excited to see Obama out there doing his thing."
"I'm a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't get involved in politics. We stay neutral. We don't vote," she said. "So I'm not going to ...
Posted in Politics |
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Hillary Clinton, a multi-millionaire, is asking her working-class supporters for help paying off her debt.
The New York Democrat is well over $20 million in debt, nearly half of which Clinton loaned herself personally earlier in the year when her campaign was virtually broke and faced life-or-death primary contests.
I wonder which half ...
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