Month: June 2008

Tacking Away from the Base

In a general election, candidates always ‘tack away’ from the left or the right. It’s always mildly irritating to the bases of the two major parties. There is always some grumbling about it, and there are...

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Crime Fighting With Obama!

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlargeOk, I had a bad day yesterday. After buying a Bluetooth phone adapter for my iPhone at the Apple store in San Francisco yesterday, I was off to...

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Obama wins: Bush bombs Iran

This story was reported on Huffington Post about an article that recently appeared in Think Progress. It reminds one of the old adage: psychopaths never give up, in this case referring to the Neocon cabal that pushed Cheney-Bush...

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The poverty of West Virginia

I stumbled onto an article by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic which discussed one of the places in the West Virginia Panhandle, where I live, that I have shopped at: the local Wal-Mart. Or, as he put it, the “crappiest...

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