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We are, each of us, a little wind. Mostly, we are good little winds. We blow a little, here and there. We do what we can to increase joy and diminish …
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We are, each of us, a little wind. Mostly, we are good little winds. We blow a little, here and there. We do what we can to increase joy and diminish …
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There's a fascinating article at CJR, "What We Didn't Know Has Hurt Us", about the explosion of classified documents under the Bush administration.
I found this bit mind-boggling:
Far more troubling was the revelation in 2006 that more than twenty-five …
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So, you think things are bad? The Washington Post can tell you just how bad, in glorious, sickening detail:
President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S. economy in decades, according to an analysis of key data, and economists …
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An excellent editorial by the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland sums things up nicely:
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration …
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… how many conservative chatterboxes have actually heard Pelosi's "hyper-partisan" speech (transcript, video). Maybe hyper-partisan speech is, like, subliminal, or something, but I don't see anything here to get all offended over. In her…
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This is my first time watching the US presidential process from abroad. I've lived abroad before (a year in Germany and two in Canada), but never managed to overlap with a US election before. I was part of a course in persuasive speaking during the 2000 …
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NPR has a great overview of the current scandal/gate/tempest-in-a-teapot brewing in US politics. Hearing more of Obama's speech, it's clear that the "pig" comment refers to his "that's not change" riff. Out of context, I guess it's easier to associate …
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What the frack?
In a post on the McCain Website on Monday, Alexander Goldfarb wrote, “It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons and Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans …
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This is an excellent, surprisingly well-linked, op-ed by the NY Times' Frank Rich on race issues in this year's US election. I particularly like this quote:
If we're to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates — and how quickly …
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This is a brilliant op-ed / media criticism by Elizabeth Edwards for the New York Times. It's remarkably well-written, and I particularly like this quote:
Watching the campaign unfold, I saw how the press gravitated toward a narrative template for the …
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