Tag: politics

  • Bloggers fact-check Howard Coble's ass

    Check out the excellent work at Is That Legal? covering the Howard Coble story. Coble, who you may recall was opposed for reelection by blogger Tara Sue Grubb recently stated that the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II was done for their own good. This is the man in charge of Homeland Security…

  • Like father, like son. This

    Like father, like son. This graphic published in Yahoo! News – Politics yesterday speaks volumes:

  • Vonnegut, a pacifist, despairs

    Says Kurt Vonnegut, in this short interview from In These Times: “I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers.”

  • A (Maginot) line in the sand

    I’m no fan of the Nation Review, but this Jonah Goldberg image cracked me up: (In case you want to test the query, yes, it’s fake, but it’s still hilarious.)

  • Altered State of the Union

    San Francisco based film maker and photographer Bijan Yashar will be projecting George W. Bush’s State of the Union address in real time onto the wall of the Shell Station at Market and Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme and shifting angles to “reveal implicit perspectives and points of…

  • My country right or left

    Matthew Riemer, writing in YellowTimes.org, debunks the notion that criticism of American foreign policy is inherently anti-American.

  • Who's blogging Karl Rove?

    I was just musing on how the right in this country has succeeded at presenting their views in the most poll-tested appealing ways possible, and still they are alienating more than half the population with their agenda items in many areas, especially outside of the multi-front effort against terrorism (which was thrust upon them). Even…

  • Where SBC Pacbell Customers Opt Out

    From a letter in the business section of today’s Sunday (S.F.) Chronicle thanking columnist David Lazarus for bringing out SBC Pacbell’s process for obtaining permission (or making it difficult for you to withhold permission) for sharing your personal information. Rather than suffering through a phone-tree thicket, go directly to http://sbc-pacbell.com/rescpni to opt out directly.

  • Justice a la Ashcroft. The

    Justice a la Ashcroft. The way the prosecutions of John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo are being handled can give us some good insight into what John Ashcroft considers “appropriate” in a criminal case.  While it’s certainly understandable that Ashcroft, and much of the public, want to see Muhammad and Malvo tried, sentenced and executed…

  • Total Information Awareness.. Pentagon Plans

    Total Information Awareness.. Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans By JOHN MARKOFF The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe

  • Fear of a Muslim Planet

    The Well is a private conferencing system, its “current” topic notoriously incivil, and yet there’s been a great discussion there lately, with a frank exchange of a wide range of views about geopolitics today and the war on terror, and litttle patience for unexamined truisms. Since I only “own my own words,” I can’t provide…

  • Sullivan calls the election an

    Sullivan calls the election an endorsement of the tax cut. I guess even when his team is winning the spin never ends: In his Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan slips in “…for the tax cuts” as presumably one of the motivating factors that led the electorate to give Bush both houses of Congress. I don’t see…