September 6, 2008
Too long, thus under the fold - enjoy, think, bookmark for later, use:
Netroots push back against MSM 'bias':
Criticism from the left can take a variety of forms, including fact-checking, aggregating links and sometimes original reporting. Also, similar to the right's strategy over decades of "…
September 6, 2008
Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation:
Although his lack of charisma and charm has lately prevented the Arizona senator from grabbing front-page headlines, the tenets of journalistic objectivity made it necessary today to publish a top news story on Republican presidential candidate John…
September 6, 2008
Where Have I Seen Sarah Palin Before? by Arash Kamangeer:
One of the problems the government faced was opposition from legions of mothers whose sons had been maimed or died in the war. To confront this problem, the government-controlled TV would parade a mother whose son had died in the war in…
September 6, 2008
owlz:
Stated or not, the extreme right, the real audience intended to be won over by the Palin choice, will be eagerly anticipating her becoming president at the earliest possible date. They will be looking for her to have influence even while McCain is in office. The cynicism of choosing someone…
September 6, 2008
Control of industry by government? I though these guys were against socialism.
Ed Cone:
I've been thinking about a newspaper column on "socialism." I put the word in quotes, because the subject is bogeyman scare-word "socialism," applied to any government program or tax policy opposed by the…
September 6, 2008
Wild-Serbia.com looks like an excellent site:
Wild-Serbia.com represents the largest on-line wildlife photo collection from Serbia. All photos on this site are made according [to] wildlife code of ethics.
The basic aim of this site is to illustrate Serbian wildlife and biodiversity, current needs…
September 6, 2008
...and wins:
September 6, 2008
The Resentment Strategy :
But don't be fooled either by Mr. McCain's long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin's appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier…
September 6, 2008
Steven Wells in Guardian yesterday:
This was a cold-bloodedly deliberate attempt at political branding. Palin referred to herself a hockey mom in her carefully scripted and vetted acceptance speech - and not for the first time. In 2004 she boasted: "It's said the only difference between a hockey…
September 6, 2008
....that lying is not the only campaign strategy. So is cheating:
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,…
September 6, 2008
Alana Taylor is in J-school at NYU and is not happy with the way she gets unprepared and mis-prepared by the old-timey professors for the journalism of the future:
What is so fascinating about the move from print to digital is the freedom to be your own publisher, editor, marketer, and brand. But,…
September 6, 2008
Dan has an astute observation (phrases bolded by me):
America has always romanticized rural life, and no doubt the McCain campaign has prepared all sorts of comebacks that will turn criticism of Palin into insults against anyone with a rural background.
But I want to talk about another "rural…
September 6, 2008
Jonathan describes, step by step.
I wonder if there are any palindromic sequences to be found?
September 6, 2008
But if you don't, here are some snippets from his recent posts:
What's missing from the Democratic convention?:
The GOP's attacks on Kerry in 2004 were mocking, scornful, derisive, demonizing and deeply personal -- in speech after speech -- and they were also highly effective. They weren't the…
September 6, 2008
We know they speak in dog-whistles. If you were wondering what Sarah Palin meant by dissing 'community organizers', she was not thinking about Jesus, or Martin Luther King Jr, or Mahathma Gandhi....just so you know who their base is....
'Community Organizers' Is a Dog Whistle:
Matt is absolutely…
September 6, 2008
Mockery and satire are sometime the most potent weapons. Nobody likes to be mocked - especially not if there is no possible reasonable response. Nobody wants to be aligned with the side that is consistently mocked in a way that shines light on lies and hypocrisy. The partisans will get mad. But…
September 6, 2008
From Shakesville - I thought it deserved to be brought out again, now that a few days have passed and it got burried in the archives:
rrp:
When McCain's campaign announced that they'd chosen Sarah Palin for VP, most people (different flavors of lefties/progressives) that I talked with were…
September 6, 2008
L.A.Times:
No other country has gone as far as Ecuador in proposing to give trees their day in court, but it certainly is not alone in its recalibration of natural rights. Religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Constantinople, have…
September 6, 2008
Honest Lovers? Fallow Buck Groans Reveal Their Status And Size During The Rut:
It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focused…
September 5, 2008
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
September 5, 2008
Here are some of my best posts from August, in my own opinion. You know it is a small proportion of all posts, but even if I posted only these, that's quite a nice blog right there if I may say so myself ;-)
What I try to do when I travel abroad across several time zones
Well versed in science…
September 5, 2008
We know that the GOP has been incapable of and uninterested in governing for about half a century now. We know they have run on personality, not issues since at least 1980, since they have no issues that are palatable to the public.
But they used to be fantastic at campaigning and parades and…
September 5, 2008
Wikipedia:
Maverick steadfastly refused to brand his cattle. As a result, the word maverick entered the English lexicon, meaning both an unbranded range animal as well as a slang term for someone who exhibits a streak of stubborn independence.
September 5, 2008
Yes. This segment REALLY ran on TV!
September 5, 2008
...is coming this way. It's been drizzling a little bit all day, but we expect a lot more rain tonight and over the weekend.
September 5, 2008
Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake:
A Universite Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current…
September 5, 2008
There are 9 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Sampling for Global Epidemic Models and the Topology of an…
