April 2008
“It’s as if the 2004 election never happened, as if Americans haven’t...”
– Wrong On Wright
WatchExplaining the Cognitive Surplus
How to market your website on the cheap →
“When a Republican president is in power, people at the top of the income...”
– American political economics in one picture
Things I have learned during this campaign season →
Since 1981, standard Republican fiscal policy has... →
Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton ended eight... →
Praise for the Prius →
“If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they’ll tell you that the...”
– Al Franken
“Furthermore, turning [Jeremiah] Wright into a national demon was a two-fer. They...”
– Sara Robinson
“Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Its functioning is...”
– Richard Stallman
Email ninjitsu revealed →
“George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror” has caused our...”
– Helena Cobban
“Americans see manifest destiny, not US aggression, when “their”...”
– Paul Craig Roberts
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device... →
“Rove learned that (1) you don’t have to create a secret Plumber’s unit to create...”
– Don Siegelman
“Those trend lines tell an alarming story. The combined average audience for the...”
– CBS News ratings woes aren’t all about Katie Couric
“America has a chance to renew itself with Obama, or even stave off disaster...”
– Rogue Columnist
How are you choosing to live simultaneously in the... →
“…two 5-to-4 decisions extended the broad deference the Court has accorded in...”
– High Court Bars Suits by Those in the Military
'Free Tibet' flags made in China →
An editorial cartoon that when first viewed, you could easily imagine it to be true…
“Most people who come into slavery today are enticed simply by the prospect of...”
– The New Slavery
“The old Biblical creationists were, in my opinion, wrong-headed, but they were...”
– John Derbyshire
Stung by rising gasoline and food prices,... →
“I think that’s the kind of uniter that Obama wants to be. He wants to be...”
– Morgan Meis
High gas prices prompt call for 4-day work week →
“Hamas had been declared a terrorist organization by the United States and...”
– Jimmy Carter
“I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years...”
– Jeremiah Wright
“Gamers vote. Gamers buy newspapers. They won’t vote for you, or buy your...”
– Richard Bartle
“Can we stop pretending to be children about this? There’s only one reason...”
– Kevin Drum
Fewer than 18 out of 100 Americans today buy a... →
“…my general feeling is that the recession will be longer and deeper than most...”
– Warren Buffett
“Hello, my name is Matt. My father was an alcoholic circus clown who used to beat...”
– Jesus Made Me Puke
“In the British media, you still see elite used predominantly to refer to...”
– Geoffrey Nunberg
“Voter ID laws, however, affect more than an “infinitesimal” number...”
– The Fraud of Voter ID Laws
The Obama Fox Interview: 8 Questions about Rev.... →
Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube →
“This has been a pretty remarkable month, actually, with all the problems of...”
– Jim Kunstler
“While I knew that the Founding Fathers were fond of cloaking their political...”
– Founding Fathers were bloggers
“…are the Plantationists winning the Cold Civil war? I think so, yes, but not...”
– at-Largely
“Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped...”
– Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World
How do you change a culture? →
“As our era features globalization’s rapid and unprecedented advance, it...”
– Thomas Barnett