Noam Chomskey on Bush’s grammatical errors
Saw this on boingboing: (Noam Chomsky speaking about Bush) So therefore you have… George Bush… this pampered kid who came from a rich family and went to prep school and an elite university. And you...
View ArticleSCOTUS to review Texas redistricting!
Am I dreaming? The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider the legality of Texas’s 2003 congressional redistricting plan, which was engineered by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and...
View ArticleBad House, Good House
Bad House! The House voted 251 to 174 yesterday to renew the USA Patriot Act, setting up a confrontation over the revised anti-terrorism measure with a group of Democratic and Republican senators who...
View ArticleThe things Arianna Huffington wants to forget about 2005
Arianna Huffington did a great piece at AlterNet: The Things I Want to Forget, an overview of everything evil and absurd in the United States in 2005. It may come off as negative but I think she...
View ArticleWisconsin law requires paper trail on voting machines
Yes! Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law today a bill that will require that touch screen voting machines produce a verifiable paper ballot. The bill requires that if a municipality uses an electronic...
View ArticleThe Vatican starts charging for the right to reprint the works of the pope
unreal For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Milanese...
View ArticleSpend THREE MINUTES of your time — Call your Senator NOW
Samuel Alito has been nominated by President Bush to be on the Supreme Court of the United States. This is a Big Deal, because Supreme Court appointments are for the life of the justice (or until they...
View ArticleDouglas Rushkoff: Suicide Bombs as Viral Media
Douglas Rushkoff wrote a very interesting essay back in August of 2005, discussing how suidicide bombing is a media virus. The media virus concept is something he discussed in a book of the same name...
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Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
The problem that has no name–which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities–is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our...
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RootsPrimary launches
A buddy of mine, Zack Exley, has just launched a new site: RootsPrimary What is RootsPrimary.org? Before Super Tuesday, before the Money Primary, and even before the MoveOn Primary, comes a Grassroots...
View ArticleColbert SKEWERS the Bush administration
Wow. Wow. Stephen Colbert somehow landed the final spot at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and he absolutely SKEWERED the Bush administration, while standing 15 feet from Bush! You...
View ArticleToo little too late: Google takes a stance on NetNeutrality
Google has not only taken a stance on Net Neutrality (and taken the right stance), they are even encouraging their users to take political action. Check it out. Of course, it would have been nice if...
View ArticleSimultaneously the most awesome and most depressing thing I have ever seen
Someone has created a key which opens all Diebold voting machines, using only an image of the key from the company’s own website. link
View ArticleFinally hooked up my scanner
I finally got around to setting up my scanner, and the first things I scanned were the gifts I received from a swarm of children on voting day, 2006. Go check out that article and be sure to view the...
View ArticleThe Committee for a Unified Independent Party — good mission, stupid name
Just a quick note — I got a call from The Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), asking me for money. I think I’ve previously given them money for specific Obama-supporting efforts in swing...
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