April 21, 2008

I’m in Chuck movie heaven!

Choke, one of the ten greatest works of American fiction, is well worth a read. I believe the movie comes out this July, but I could be wrong. I saw a lot of prank or dream teasers for other movies, but I don’t think any others besides Choke and (maybe) Lullaby are on [...]

April 21, 2008

A long overdue music post

Here is a compilation of tunes I’ve been enjoying as of late. Some are new, some are classics reinvented by current events. I’ll make every effort to get every link perfect and keep all songs free, but some may be too good to avoid leaving you to buy or listen online. There’s [...]

April 21, 2008

It’s funny how Hillary Clinton brings up the job application analogy

Senator Clinton is the guest of Keith Olbermann on Countdown tonight. She continues to make the race more divisive than she needs to, however this interview (obviously, given the show) didn’t spend time focusing on Barack Obama as unelectable. She did connect Senator McCain to our new 100 Year War and this tanking [...]

April 21, 2008

Still with Stupid? Why we need a smart President by Meghan Daum

With political discourse reduced to screaming contests and actual news eclipsed by exclusive and shocking footage of celebrities without makeup, we’ve become not only impatient with but downright opposed to the kinds of ideas that can’t be reduced to a line on a screen crawl or a two-sentence blog entry. Have you fallen into this [...]

April 21, 2008

Newsweek: Adios, Sound Bites & Fat Cats - Obama is Changing Politics

The ecosystem of political media has changed, with sound bites losing their authority. Consumers of news are less easily manipulated by the 24/7 barrage of bites and images (Hillary Clinton doing whisky shots, Obama bowling), which are dissected endlessly on cable. Voters search for their own context.
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This week, Newsweek political columnist [...]

April 21, 2008

McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget

Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.
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Senator McCain thinks he’s going to reverse our $3 trillion deficit by [...]