Archive for September, 2008

Fox News re-posts anti-Palin report?

28Sep08

I saw a funny thing on Google News today:

If you look quickly you’ll see it’s still up in the Election section of Google News.
A headline from Fox News claiming “Conservatives Begin Questioning Palin’s Heft”?  A little surprising for a network that basically only reports the news that’s good for republican candidates.  The url in question [...]

Are you *sure*?

27Sep08

Are you registered to vote?
Are you sure?
There’s a great web site where you can put in your information and it will tell you whether everything is good to go with your ability to vote.  Unfortunately, many people have issues on election day voting, often in discriminatory ways.
Protect yourself by checking your registration at VoteForChange.com.  The [...]

Funny thing

24Sep08

When I was climbing back down White Mountain the other weekend, at like 11,000 ft (there’s a lot of up in the down too). I found that if I pretended to be Captain Jack Sparrow, it was easier.
Turns out if you add faux drunkenness and sarcasm to manual labor, it becomes much more tolerable.
Also, [...]

Fair Pay for Women

24Sep08

I just saw Michelle Obama’s post on BlogHer about Lilly Ledbetter, and was inspired to dig up some more details on the situation.
Backstory:
Lilly Ledbetter, who worked at goodyear for 20 years as a factory supervisor, and who earned as much as 40% less than her male co-workers for that entire period, sued her employer [...]

Obama lies

23Sep08

I posted recently about McCain’s descent into dishonorable campaigning. Until now I’ve been impressed with the extent to which Obama has stayed truthful. After this week, however, I’m having a harder time.
This week, Obama released an ad falsely claiming McCain wants to cut social security benefits in half, a misleading ad about McCain’s [...]

On Bailouts

23Sep08

So far this year the US Government has given $30 billion to the investment bank Bear Stearns Cos., $200 billion to finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and $85 billion to American International Group Inc. It is currently considering rushing out $700 billion in bailouts for…. well I don’t even know who.
I haven’t [...]

Music

22Sep08

For those of you internet-stalking me, even thought I’ve been posting less here I have been posting stuff I’ve been listening to over on blip.fm, which is sort of like Twitter for music. Unlike my blog, my flickr, and my del.icio.us, I actually go back over the stuff I post there.
Sara-ann… I don’t know [...]

The sad, slow decline of John McCain

16Sep08

Back in 2000, I was a John McCain supporter.  I admired the way he stood up against his party on issues like same-sex civil unions, certain kinds of abortion, and waterboarding.  Despite the fact that I’m far more liberal than McCain on most issues, I was actually considering supporting him over Gore because I respected [...]


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