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Estimates of global sea level rise from a...
Aug 31st
Blackwater gearing up for Hurricane Gustav
Aug 31st
cagle.com
Aug 31st
“So my advice to Obama, not just from the standpoint of being...”
— Howard Zinn
Aug 31st
“Jesus wants to save us from making the good news about...”
— Jesus Wants to Save Christians
Aug 31st
Hurricane Gustav, Energy Infrastructure, and Updated Damage...
Aug 31st
Thomas Eagleton
Aug 31st
The two leading papers in Alaska have raised...
Aug 31st
iAmerican Too
Aug 30th
Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother
Aug 30th
Governor Sarah Palin's appearance on KWHL's...
Aug 30th
“The extraordinary rendition program sends suspects to...”
— Sangitha McKenzie Millar
Aug 30th
Iraq Signs $3 Billion Oil Deal With China
Aug 30th
“There is clearly an intent on the part of law enforcement...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 30th
bartblog.bartcop.com
Aug 30th
“One of America’s biggest military contractors is being...”
— The Independent
Aug 30th
“As I listen to Senator Obama speak, as I see the selfless...”
— Frank Schaeffer
Aug 30th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Aug 30th
“It’s far too soon to tell if Palin will turn out to be...”
— Sarah Palin?
Aug 30th
“I said during the buildup to war that it’s too bad we...”
— Charley Reese
Aug 30th
David Horsey
Aug 29th
“…there is nothing more important that an education can do...”
— Howard Zinn
Aug 29th
Paper from Wheat, not Wood
Aug 29th
picayune.uclick.com
Aug 29th
“…a McCain victory will bring a McCain administration. That...”
— Rogue Columnist
Aug 29th
“According to Nielsen, 38.4 million people watched the final...”
— Ezra Klein
Aug 29th
Help Free Pastor Bike
Aug 29th
post-gazette.com
Aug 29th
If Iraq really is a sovereign and independent...
Aug 29th
“Cartoons work because they’re not monologues. Even...”
— Seth Godin
Aug 29th
Is Cindy McCain Really an Only Child?
Aug 29th
“It truly was a pivotal moment in American politics. About...”
— David Brin
Aug 29th
cagle.com
Aug 29th
Why We're Failing in Math and Science
Aug 28th
“I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain....”
— Barack Obama
Aug 28th
Tittering Terrorists
Aug 28th
“The GOP’s attacks on Kerry in 2004 were mocking,...”
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 28th
“Germany is to board-games what Belgium is to chocolate. It...”
— Economist.com
Aug 28th
10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You
Aug 28th
An iGod?
Aug 28th
How did I get on the list of gullible...
Aug 28th
“I live with a tragic history that remembers the failure of...”
— Anthony Smith
Aug 28th
Watch Watch
Martin Luther King “I have a dream”
Aug 28th
One Sentence - True stories, told in one...
Aug 28th
bartcop.com
Aug 28th
“The real issues are suffocated by the media. The American...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Aug 28th
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its...
Aug 28th
washingtonpost.com
Aug 28th
Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because...
Aug 28th
“Dark-skinned blacks in the United States have lower...”
— The Skin Color Paradox and the...
Aug 28th
CIRCLE
Aug 28th
Why do Mexicans paint stripes on their...
Aug 28th
“I’m not paying close enough attention to know if this whole...”
— Clark Stooksbury
Aug 28th
7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life,...
Aug 27th
David Horsey
Aug 27th
“What bullshit essentially misrepresents is neither the state...”
— Harry Frankfurt
Aug 27th
“Wind-bells tinkle and cypresses sway in the breeze. The sun...”
— Steve Rose talks to visionary...
Aug 27th
maopost.com — Chinese propaganda posters
Aug 27th
“Wake up, America! In 2001, the oil companies, the war...”
— Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Aug 27th
Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension...
Aug 27th
“Worse, extreme income and wealth inequality alone may hinder...”
— How Big of a Deal Is Income...
Aug 27th
Benson
Aug 27th
Did John McCain sleep through 1989?
Aug 27th
“If American Christianity would refuse to embrace the cult of...”
— Stephanie Bennett
Aug 27th
“Sure, Clinton said Obama’s name several times. But...”
— Craig Crawford
Aug 27th
AT&T Thanks the Blue Dog Democrats With a...
Aug 27th
I Made Your iPhone!
Aug 27th
bartblog.bartcop.com
Aug 27th
Watch Watch
HILLARY CLINTON: Speech to Denver Convention
Aug 27th
Does anyone else find it appalling that more...
Aug 27th
“Of all the stories Obama could tell, three are probably the...”
— What Obama Needs to Do in...
Aug 27th
Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is...
Aug 27th

Positively Negative

squashed wrote: I don’t want to say that all negative ads are categorically...
Aug 27th
“Attack is not synonymous with primal scream. It...”
— Talking Points Memo
Aug 26th
The Church & Politics Quiz
Aug 26th
“Over 10 million net jobs were created during Carter’s...”
— First Draft
Aug 26th
whatnowtoons.com
Aug 26th
“Currently, the Supreme Court has a slim 5-4 majority in...”
— What a McCain Victory Would...
Aug 26th
When will it occur to the geniuses at the...
Aug 26th
“Holoselves are, for all intents and purposes, artificial...”
— Stephen Downes
Aug 26th
Are Oil Prices Rigged?
Aug 26th
rjmatson.com
Aug 26th
“Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed...”
— Michelle Obama (via bunnynico)
Aug 26th
“The very notion of a “sex ethic” reflects the...”
— Walter Wink
Aug 26th
Watch Watch
Michelle Obama Speaks at the DNC
Aug 26th
The Giant Pool of Money
Aug 26th
bartcop.com
Aug 25th
“The Republican candidate for president is a warmonger. There...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Aug 25th
Opentape is a free, open-source package that...
Aug 25th
bartcop.com
Aug 25th
“The neocons have tried to define Michelle Obama as a b*tch,...”
— Justin Raimondo
Aug 25th
The Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau
Aug 25th
Obama's Secret Weapon: Geeks
Aug 25th
“Power structure theories have offered three faces of power....”
— George Draffan
Aug 25th
Watch Watch
John McCain - POW Bros
Aug 25th
cagle.com
Aug 25th
“The Myth of Redemptive Violence is the simplest, laziest,...”
— Walter Wink
Aug 25th
“We have blundered into nations we know little about. We are...”
— Chris Hedges
Aug 25th
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Unforgettable Fire
Aug 25th
“Now the Democratic party has assembled in Denver to anoint...”
— Jim Kunstler
Aug 25th
Hubdub — The News Prediction Game
Aug 25th
The Madness of Jerome Corsi
Aug 25th
cagle.com
Aug 25th
White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three...
Aug 25th
“The fact that the economy grows — that it produces more...”
— NYTimes.com
Aug 25th
“Just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt bypassed the press by...”
— Obama end-runs the media
Aug 25th
muxtape.com
Aug 25th
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?...
Aug 25th
“Joe Bungalow, we ask you to peek in your closet and count...”
— CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Aug 24th

YouTube Comments

misterpeace wrote: It just occurred to me that I prefer to watch YouTube videos when they’re...
Aug 24th
Dilbert.com
Aug 24th
“One lesson from Microsoft’s problems is that turning out...”
— David Kusnet
Aug 24th
“Jesus, in short, abhors both passivity and violence. He...”
— Walter Wink
Aug 24th
Watch Watch
Couric Asks McCain About His Seven Kitchen Tables
Aug 24th
“Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qualified to...”
— Frank Rich
Aug 24th
Media Bash Barack — Study Finds Obama Faring...
Aug 24th
FACE YOUR MANGA
Aug 24th
An Overview of Time Perspective Types
Aug 24th
“President-elect McCain’s inability to recall how many...”
— Rogue Columnist
Aug 24th
ucomics.com
Aug 24th
“Joe Biden got the call from Barack Obama while undergoing a...”
— Yahoo! News
Aug 24th
“Democrats have increasingly highlighted Mr. McCain’s wealth....”
— NYTimes.com
Aug 23rd
Pop v. Soda
Aug 23rd
“No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s...”
— Heraclitus
Aug 23rd
“I think nothing constitutes a just war. There is no such...”
— Walter Wink
Aug 23rd
Watch Watch
McCant
Aug 23rd
“If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded...”
— Aaron Glantz
Aug 23rd
10 Policies for a Better America
Aug 23rd
“Beyond the minimum level of income essential to meet basic...”
— David Korten
Aug 23rd
U.S.-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan...
Aug 23rd
Aaron Sorkin Announces New ‘West Wing’ Animated...
Aug 23rd
“…using figures that the Bush administration declared...”
— David Cay Johnston
Aug 23rd
The Congressional Budget Office, the agency...
Aug 23rd
Seven Ways Your Vote Might Not Count This...
Aug 22nd
Watch Watch
Steve Ballmer Monkey Dance
Aug 22nd
“Hijacked by a relatively small few, the GOP of today bears...”
— Susan Eisenhower
Aug 22nd
The White House is missing as many as 225...
Aug 22nd
dailykos.com
Aug 22nd
“If you like what you’re reading, click an ad to say...”
— Seth Godin
Aug 22nd
“Why do Facebook’s elaborate games of platform strategy...”
— Umair Haque
Aug 22nd
A review of the Nokia E71
Aug 22nd
“John McCain flew 23 bombing missions over North Vietnam in a...”
— AlterNet
Aug 22nd
Fueling Fools
Aug 22nd
“The McCains increased their budget for household employees...”
— Politico.com
Aug 22nd
“McCain, who huddled with advisors at his desert compound in...”
— Los Angeles Times
Aug 22nd
xkcd
Aug 22nd
10 Futuristic User Interfaces
Aug 22nd
“Of course, they compare every nasty leader to Hitler and...”
— daggatt blog
Aug 22nd
The Joy of Tech
Aug 22nd
Who is Randy Scheunemann?
Aug 22nd
“I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being...”
— I Spent Years as a POW with...
Aug 22nd
The Folly of Offshore Oil Drilling
Aug 22nd
Watch Watch
Lessig on McCain on Technology
Aug 21st
“Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer....”
— Larry Wall
Aug 21st
“In the fall of 2003, after the world learned there were no...”
— Ron Suskind
Aug 21st
Ten Inventions I Want To See
Aug 21st
“We could have spent the past ten years getting our own house...”
— Jim Kunstler
Aug 21st
salon.com
Aug 21st
“Already we are in an era when no worthwhile skill is ever...”
— David Brin
Aug 21st
“Make no mistake about it, McCain is all about war. It is war...”
— daggatt blog
Aug 21st
“Recessions are signal events in any modern economy. And yet...”
— NYTimes.com
Aug 21st
David Horsey
Aug 21st
Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug
Aug 21st
“…if Barack Obama is elected president with a significant...”
— Rick Perlstein
Aug 21st
“Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan’s Island...”
— Clay Shirky
Aug 21st
“Again and again you see journalists in this country who...”
— Sibel Edmonds
Aug 21st
Thought Control In Economics
Aug 21st
“So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Aug 21st
So much for that “respectful campaign”
Aug 21st
McCain’s Big Lie
Aug 21st
What has China to fear in Christianity?
Aug 21st
Watch Watch
“Seven”
Aug 21st

A Brief Respite From the Flood of Tumblr...

AZspot to go on a short sabbatical for a few days. Regular posting to resume later in the week,...
Aug 17th
“The judicial coup of December 2000 that installed Bush and...”
— James K. Galbraith
Aug 17th
Watch Watch
Barack Obama at the Saddleback Civil Forum
Aug 17th
“Though the McCain campaign announced a new no-lobbyists...”
— Frank Rich
Aug 17th
“People who make under $80,000 are too stupid to understand...”
— John McCain
Aug 17th
“John McCain thinks that if you are making only $4 million a...”
— Electoral-vote.com
Aug 17th
“How would we have reacted if Moscow had brought Western...”
— Patrick J. Buchanan
Aug 17th
“The first time I met Barack Obama—I should say the only time...”
— Aaron Sorkin, creator of The...
Aug 17th
danzigercartoons.com
Aug 16th
“The entire world, except for Americans, knows that the...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
Aug 16th

Bill Moyers Journal

BILL MOYERS: You call us an "empire of consumption."
ANDREW BACEVICH: I didn't create that phrase. It's a phrase drawn from a book by a wonderful historian at Harvard University, Charles Maier, and the point he makes in his very important book is that, if we think of the United States at the apex of American power, which I would say would be the immediate post World War Two period, through the Eisenhower years, into the Kennedy years. We made what the world wanted. They wanted our cars. We exported our television sets, our refrigerators - we were the world's manufacturing base. He called it an "empire of production."
BILL MOYERS: Right.
ANDREW BACEVICH: Sometime around the 1960s there was a tipping point, when the "empire of production" began to become the "empire of consumption." When the cars started to be produced elsewhere, and the television sets, and the socks, and everything else. And what we ended up with was the American people becoming consumers rather than producers.
BILL MOYERS: And you say this has produced a condition of profound dependency, to the extent, and I'm quoting you, "Americans are no longer masters of their own fate."
ANDREW BACEVICH: Well, they're not. I mean, the current debt to the Chinese government grows day by day. Why? Well, because of the negative trade balance. Our negative trade balance with the world is something in the order of $800 billion per year. That's $800 billion of stuff that we buy, so that we can consume, that is $800 billion greater than the amount of stuff that we sell to them. That's a big number. I mean, it's a big number even relative to the size of our economy.
Aug 16th
“We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aug 16th
Watch Watch
Clifford Stoll on … everything
Aug 16th

Tumblelog search

Tumblr staff wrote: We’re rolling out search across Tumblr, starting with individual tumblelog...
Aug 16th
10 Questions Rick Warren Won’t Ask John...
Aug 16th
bartblog.bartcop.com
Aug 16th
“History has repeatedly demonstrated the irrationality of...”
— Andrew Bacevich
Aug 16th
“Both campaigns have now staked out positions on the...”
— cnewmark
Aug 16th
bartcop.com
Aug 16th
“Volumes of war powers nonsense have been assembled to defend...”
— Bruce Fein
Aug 16th
“Well, I couldn’t help noticing as far back as 2001, when the...”
— Daniel Ellsberg
Aug 16th
web.mac.com
Aug 15th
“You know, they are classifying everything down to the most...”
— Ron Suskind
Aug 15th
“If McCain becomes President, America will have more than a...”
— Pat Murphy
Aug 15th
“McCain has been persistently bedeviled by staff hires...”
— Los Angeles Times
Aug 15th
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is suing...
Aug 15th
Two Million and Counting…
Aug 15th
“While McCain supporters screamed, “Obama sleeps with a...”
— Politico.com
Aug 14th
David Horsey
Aug 14th
“Mr. Suskind reports that the Bush Administration, in its...”
— John Conyers
Aug 14th
“The “net neutrality” movement is not about “regulating the...”
— Susan Crawford
Aug 14th
“Suppose astronomers discover that a huge asteroid will, in...”
— How much do we owe future...
Aug 14th
Watch Watch
Approval Ratings: The Public v. McCain
Aug 14th
According to an analysis of campaign...
Aug 14th
MySpace MyDog
Aug 14th
“To McCain, the Internet is all about business. It’s about...”
— Joho the Blog
Aug 14th
Rove critic on terror watch list...
Aug 14th
The Political Economy of Distributism
Aug 14th
Is Laura Leaving Bush After he Leaves Office Because...
Aug 14th
“Proprietary software subjugates the user. It’s an...”
— Richard Stallman
Aug 14th
U.S. Inflation Hits 17-Year High As Increases...
Aug 14th
Anti-Obama book gets front page of Post and...
Aug 14th
Kill Liberals
Aug 14th
McCain Prepares to Hand the Internet Over to...
Aug 14th
“Google is the perfect real-world memory aid for students. It...”
— Made to Stick
Aug 14th
U.S. Broadband is Slow
Aug 14th
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights...
Aug 14th

The Way of the World: Ron Suskind on How...

AMY GOODMAN: Let me go to some of the responses to your explosive allegations, like the former CIA director, George Tenet. He says, “The second nugget in the book involves a supposed order from the White House to me at the CIA to have my staff fabricate a letter connecting Iraq with Al Qa’ida and the attacks of 9/11. Suskind says that CIA was directed to get an Iraqi official to copy the bogus information in his own hand—and then cause it to be leaked to the media.
“There was no such order from the White House to me nor, to the best of my knowledge, was anyone from CIA ever involved in any such effort. […]
“The notion that I would suddenly reverse our stance and have created and planted false evidence that was contrary to our own beliefs is ridiculous.” Those, the words of George Tenet.
RON SUSKIND: The key line in there is the “to best of my recollection.” I mean, Tenet, of course, has had problems up to now. I dealt with him a great deal on my last book, The One Percent Doctrine. The reason reporters don’t call George up to now is because he says essentially he doesn’t remember “slam dunk,” he doesn’t remember briefing the President before 9/11. I’ve known George for a long time. What I did hear is, I talked to the direct participants who actually executed, were involved in, the step-by-step of the process, and they testify on the record in the book. And I think people in the know, certainly in Washington, understand why George is the last man you want to call on something like this.
Aug 13th
LOL Bush: The president at the Olympics
Aug 13th
“John [McCain] is a technological troglodyte, and proud of...”
— Reed Hundt
Aug 13th
Ira Glass's Manifesto, Part One
Aug 13th
“…in the view of our corporate news editors and managers, it...”
— This War Report Has Been...
Aug 13th
The Economics Of Faith
Aug 13th
Why Outsourcing Sucks
Aug 13th
rjmatson.com
Aug 13th
“The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as...”
— James Kunstler
Aug 13th
“If he is to prevail in November, Mr. Obama cannot allow the...”
— Thomas Frank
Aug 13th

Music Picks From Obama, McCain

John McCain’s Top Ten 1. Dancing Queen ABBA 2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison 3. Take a Chance On Me...
Aug 13th
OVERCOMPENSATING
Aug 13th
“…most independent studies have found increases in crashes at...”
— Ladies’ Home...
Aug 13th
“Claiborne/Haw have a section that I’ve heard Claiborne...”
— Jesus for President
Aug 13th
Nobody gives a shit about freedom 0
Aug 13th
washingtonpost.com
Aug 13th
The Death of the Streetcar Was The Birth of...
Aug 13th
The Power of a Yielded Life: Catherine Rohr...
Aug 13th
“Social order is none the less necessary; the game must still...”
— Will Durant
Aug 13th
If the current preferences stand pat, this...
Aug 13th
cagle.com
Aug 13th
Why Republicans Are Endorsing Obama
Aug 13th
“Americans have a tough time accepting the notion that even...”
— EJ Montini
Aug 13th
Mike Myers Wants New McCain Ad Pulled
Aug 13th
In a system that can involve as many as eight...
Aug 12th
cagle.com
Aug 12th
“I have never accepted that the United States fits the mold...”
— What Is The Predator State?
Aug 12th
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So...
Aug 12th
“When the Bible is seen as an infallibly true divine product,...”
— Marcus Borg
Aug 12th
“I wouldn’t say Bush is evil in that he doesn’t want to kill...”
— Vincent Bugliosi
Aug 12th
How do good teachers prepare to teach?
Aug 12th
userfriendly.org
Aug 12th
Bugs Put The Heat In Chili Peppers
Aug 12th
“The problem with this fairytale script that is being...”
— spiked
Aug 11th
GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
Aug 11th
“The single theme that most animated the modern conservative...”
— Greg Anrig
Aug 11th
You Could Become Batman, Says Scientist
Aug 11th
“The Abkhaz and the South Ossetians have made their...”
— ClubOrlov
Aug 11th
Watch Watch
Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall
Aug 11th
Ice at the North Pole melted at an...
Aug 11th
“Chuch people think about how to get people into church;...”
— Howard Snyder
Aug 11th
“She notes that fully 80% of Americans identify themselves as...”
— The Fall of the Evangelical...
Aug 11th
Pay no attention to the national polls, an...
Aug 11th
“In Afghanistan, U.S. forces failed to eliminate the...”
— Andrew Bacevich
Aug 11th
cagle.com
Aug 11th
Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone...
Aug 11th
“August is historically a quiet time for oil, the so-called...”
— Jim Kunstler
Aug 11th
The 6 Weapons of Influence
Aug 11th
I don’t care about fonts
Aug 11th
“TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people...”
— David Foster Wallace (via...
Aug 11th
An Openmoko bike ride
Aug 11th
“…having too much ownership creates its own problems. If too...”
— The Permission Problem
Aug 11th
The Real Aggressor — Georgian invasion of...
Aug 11th
A DRUG that slows the ageing process and...
Aug 11th
xkcd
Aug 11th
It's my fault that Rielle Hunter had an...
Aug 10th
Being Conservative in Hollywood
Aug 10th
washingtonpost.com
Aug 10th
“There are worse things done by politicians than illicit...”
— Chris Hedges
Aug 10th
“There is little whining here about Denmark having...”
— Flush With Energy
Aug 10th
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
Aug 10th
Reaching for Facebook Fame
Aug 10th
whatnowtoons.com
Aug 10th

In honor of 08-08-08, everyone should...

On 08-08-08 I ate: Breakfast: coffee, banana Lunch: roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans,...
Aug 10th
“Suddenly, people are waking up in droves from the dreamland...”
— The Reconquest of Cool
Aug 9th
Can Video Games be Infinitely Replayable Like...
Aug 9th
Watch Watch
Barack Roll (via livejamie)
Aug 9th
“I still have trouble with the use of the world blogging -...”
— scottberkun.com
Aug 9th
“What you focus on, you get more of.”
— An Amazing Mind
Aug 9th
David Horsey
Aug 9th
“Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize...”
— The Outsourcing Tragedy
Aug 9th
Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application...
Aug 9th
“McCain may not be too keen to answer yes or no because the...”
— Electoral-vote.com
Aug 9th
All your Now are belong to us
Aug 9th
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Aug 9th

The word "free" is fraught with...

The surprising derivation of the word free In English the word “free” is fraught with...
Aug 9th
“For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where...”
— Stuff White People Like (via...
Aug 9th
bartcop.com
Aug 8th
Postmodern John McCain: the presidential...
Aug 8th
“Not a day goes by where McCain & Co. fail to demonstrate...”
— Taking the low road most...
Aug 8th
“[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple,...”
— Paul Krugman (via squashed,...
Aug 8th