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And After All The Hoopla?


Posted by Bruno on May 4th, 2008

Most Americans don’t give a rip:
WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

“It’s Like An Airplane”


Posted by Contrarian on May 1st, 2008

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t:
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 a [...]

Smells Like teenspirit.com


Posted by Contrarian on April 4th, 2008

I so, so badly want to return to the heady early days of the internet:
When he bought the Web domain pizza.com for $20 in 1994, Chris Clark never imagined it would be his meal ticket.
But yesterday, the 43-year-old Queens-born entrepreneur sold the name at auction for a saucy $2.605 million.
. . .
During the [...]

Has the Clinton Campaign’s March 4 bounce hit apogee?
For our answer, let’s just go directly to Sinbad himself, who today gave up the coveted VP slot that the Clinton campaign had set aside for him:
Threat of bullets? Sinbad doesn’t remember that, either.
“I never felt that I was in a dangerous position. I never felt being [...]

And they say this Congress has done nothing . . . here we are this morning with a whole extra hour of sunlight:
For Benjamin Franklin, daylight saving time was about saving candles and for modern lawmakers, it’s about electricity — but a recent university study found it might actually cost more energy when the nation [...]

Obama The Sportsman . . .


Posted by Contrarian on February 20th, 2008

Just when I start to believe the vast HRC conspiracy about Obama’s supposed thinness, Bruno encourages me to take a look at the man’s website.
He’s right. So let’s start with Obama’s “Sportsmen” platform:
Barack Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers and has [...]

New Jersey


Posted by Bruno on February 10th, 2008

The Garden State is the new bastion of progressive politics, says the Times:
“They’re a new leader,” said Joel Rogers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the director of the Center for State Innovation, which describes itself as a progressive public-policy research institute.
“It’s not just California anymore, it’s New Jersey,” Mr. [...]

Was the freelance/permalance labor strife at Viacom precipitated by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s overaggressive meddling? In other words, was a freelance-employer relationship that actually provided benefits to freelancers stupidly, unaccountably deemed illegal by Spitzer so that the upshot is that now none of them will get benefits? It seems that way:
Not every employer is [...]

Brownbacdafucup*


Posted by Contrarian on May 31st, 2007

When Sam Brownback raised his hand to indicate that he doesn’t believe in evolution, what he meant to say was:
If belief in evolution means simply assenting to microevolution, small changes over time within a species, I am happy to say, as I have in the past, that I believe it to be true. If, on [...]

The Assault on the Internet


Posted by Bruno on May 17th, 2007

After reading the first few paragraphs of Al Gore’s book excerpt in Time, I became convinced that Gore had not, in fact, invented the internet. This is because his discussion of the destruction of democracy seems so… 1990s. All this stuff about TV as a “one-way” medium, consolidation of ownership, etc.
But, [...]


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Rogue regimes in Myanmar and North Korea; the Democratic presidential race winds down while public transit use heats up.

Links Mentioned: The fall of Dien Bien Phu … Food shortages in North Korea … Trouble in Myanmar … Police chief gunned down in Mexico … commuters are switching to mass transit.

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