Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

The Annotated Rant has done it again, this time with the Post State of the Union Rant entitled “President Bush is a Fucking Moron“.
(Note to Vicki– I’m talking to the Bible Thumpers and the rest of the rabid bunch of that ilk, not necessarily all Republicans, and certainly not intelligent centrist Republicans.) Some of you […]

The historical basis for DST goes back to WWII. I suppose at that point it may have made sense (in the same way that blackout fabric over windows made sense).
It decidedly does NOT make sense now. It has not made any KIND of sense in the last 40 years of my life. […]

From the New York Times comes this quote from Bush re “the surge”. I think you’ll agree that it’s the Bushism of the Century.
President Bush told reporters on Friday that he had proposed the increase “in that I’m the decision maker, and I had to come up with a way forward that precluded disaster.”
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Eric Klinenberg, author of “Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media.” has been getting a lot of attention. Why? Because he’s put together an impressive body of empirical evidence that shows that Media Consolidation is harmful, sometimes quite literally. His book, Fighting for Air, chronicles his fact finding, and paints an alarming picture […]

Will the unintended consequences of Nixon’s change in the farm subsidy structures ever go away? We feed it to cattle, resulting in more methane in manure and a more acidic meat, which is ripe for e coli growth and other potential diseases. We feed it to chickens, resulting in eggs with higher levels of […]

Hats are being thrown in the ring right and left, the money scramble is on, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign has begun. It’s a wide open field, and, since there is no incumbent president or vice president running, the number of candidates on both sides of the fence is, at this time, staggering. A recent […]

In the MIT Technology Review today, there’s another Net Neutrality article. What amazes me is that the writer, Wade Roush, still doesn’t totally GET IT, which is truly amazing being as he’s in Tim Berners Lee country. Roush writes this:
The single biggest future barrier for advocates of strict network neutrality could be simple technological change. […]

Click on title to see video of Markey’s speech at the NCMR.

and cuts off the purse strings NOW. I cannot believe that King Bush is going to go against the will of the people, most of his OWN PARTY, and his military advisors to send another 20k+ troop into Iraq!
Insanity. Sheerest insanity. I guess King Bush wants to live on in history any […]

What’s good for the Elephant might work for the Donkey . . . A couple months back I blogged about how some high profile Big Corporations have redlined advertising on Air America Radio, a liberal talk show. At the time the ABC Memo was leaked, many of the advertisers used the excuse that they avoid […]