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A friend who is as much if not more of a political geek as I am looked at me quizzically when I mentioned this opinion piece as evidence of why I think McCain will have a hard time winning. My friend scoffed as he had no inkling of this and if he didn't few others would either. (Probable true) Then he urged me to spread it around. So yeah, read it ( Read more... )

I thought the chart on the last page was especially clear.
http://taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=411750

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Here's a fix.

http://www.hulu.com/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog

somewhat crass, possibly offensive, but funny ecards for every occasion...

http://www.someecards.com/upload/most_popular/im_outdoorsy_in_that_i_like_getting.html

Wow, So you know I saw McCain singing Bomb Iran and I thought - what an ass. Just what we need an inflammatory joke like this to help our diplomatic relations. You can't make jokes like this when you're running for President. It would be one thing if this had been from 30 years ago because sometimes you do stupid shit. But no it was this campaign ( Read more... )

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/07/video-daniel-ellsber.html
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=389&pg=makeACall

Okay I don't really care about or even REALLY want a diamond. But still grown in a lab... With the promise of diamond wafer semiconductors? Diamond electronics will mean a whole new realm - the Diamond Age, oh uh, yeah, I guess that is where he got his title. Hmm so are we in the Silicon Age? I mean, there was the Bronze Age and The Iron Age - it ( Read more... )