Archive for September, 2006
This Week in Democracy
I was going to collect a nice fat set of links for you that covers this most miserable week in American Democracy–the most miserable in my lifetime, which includes Vietnam riots and Nepalm, by the way. I was going to edit one big post that covers:
White House clearly lied about Jack Abramoff’s contact and influence. [...]
Read More..>>Network
We watched the 1976 movie Network last night. It was Sara’s first time seeing it, but my fourth of fifth. If you’ve never seen it, or you watched it a long time ago, watch it again.
True, some of the dialog doesn’t hold up, I think due to them trying to cram a little too [...]
Flat-heads vs. Protectionists
I just watched an interesting piece on the News Hour interviewing both Thomas L. Friedman of “The World is Flat” and Senator Byron Dorgan, who just wrote his own book “Take this job and Ship it.”
Friedman was a much more articulate speaker in this case, making a clear case for why companies shipping their jobs [...]
Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post
Crooks and Liars » Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post
This is what the NY Post wrote:
Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a [...]
Olbermann on Clinton’s Interview
The Raw Story | Video: Olbermann defends Clinton, revokes Bush ‘free pass’ with transcript Well worth watching:
Read More..>>Cogito, ergo sum; Puto, ergo multiply
Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, the joys of free web translation services. I found a curious result when trying to translate another phrase into a parallel construction of the old “Je pense, donc je suis” meditation on existence. Just a passing interest, of course.
InterTran seems to think that “ergo” means “because of; [...]
War Signals?
War Signals? - Yahoo! News
More information on the administration’s growing last-ditch war plans with Iran.
If you want to stop this, call your representatives now and remind them they’re constitutionally in charge of deciding when we go to war. Tell them to do their jobs or come November, get out. If the President further abuses [...]
Torture Victim Had No Terror Link, Canada Told U.S
Torture Victim Had No Terror Link, Canada Told U.S. - New York Times
Remember when all the neocon apologists said that we weren’t at fault in the case of the Canadian citizen whom the US sent to be tortured? It was all Canada’s mistake, right? It turns out, that’s not quite correct. Canada tried to warn [...]
Political Ad Claims Democrats Started Ku Klux Klan
wcbstv.com - Political Ad Claims Democrats Started Ku Klux Klan
I’m not even going to waste time disputing the historical facts. Even the national GOP has disowned this embarassingly deceptive ad. Although it’s worth noting that they still often call themselves “The Party of Lincoln” (Lincoln = Abolition of Slavery) despite the fact that slavery was, [...]
Can a Whistleblower halt the War with Iran?
YouTube - Colbert’s guest wants whistle-blower to halt Iran war plans
The Digg link to this clip didn’t mention Daniel Ellsberg by name. But anyone who isn’t aware of the role he played in ending the Vietnam war should certainly watch this clip.
He’s now daring to call for a modern day whistle-blower to leak the Pentagon’s [...]