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June 20, 2004
Possibly because of the “Pray for Cynicism” banner adorning the bottom of my blog, Mark Dionne sends along a link to Pray for Reason, a site that wants us to win the war of prayers against those who are praying for Bush’s reelection. (More here…)
June 17, 2004
Sign a petition asking The Boss to play a concert on September 1 with proceeds going to defeat Bush. The organizer, Andrew Rasiej, has already put Giants Stadium on hold for that day.
Hell, let’s draft Bruce for VP…
June 12, 2004
Brad DeLong runs Rick Pearlstein’s notes from a talk given by Seymour Hersh. You will find no comfort in Hersh’s comments. E.g,
He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, “You haven’t begun to see evil…” then trailed off. He said, “horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.”
June 11, 2004
Islamicate writes interestingly about gay marriage: Separate marriage from legal unions, written within the context of Hobbes vs. Rosseau.
June 10, 2004
You know that memo that Ashcroft refuses to release, without invoking executive privilege or any other legal justification? (As Jon Stewart said in commenting on this, “Dude, you have to invoke something!”) NPR has published it as a 2.7MB PDF file.
June 8, 2004
They Work For You lets you see everything your MP has said since 2001. You can also search by topic, with space to add your own comments. (Here are two examples from Perfect.co.uk, as well as The Guardian‘s coverage.) . Waaaay cool. We need this here in the Colonies.
June 2, 2004
The DNC has started a convention blog. Matt Stoller, who likes to ask funny-disarming questions at conferences, is one of the bloggers, which is a very good sign.
The blog is looking for a name. Any suggestions? Other than “Conventional Wisdom,” of course.
(Hey, Matt, turn the comments on!)
May 31, 2004
Smoking gun: Time reports on a Pentagon email (from Douglas “Chicken Hawk” Feith) that says that Dick Cheney’s office “coordinated” the awarding of a multi-billion dollar contract in Iraq for the company he formerly headed, Halliburton. (Reuters)
Holstered gun: The Boston Globe’s Wayne Washington reports that Bush no longer mentions the prescription drug bill he rammed through Congress:
A Globe survey of Bush’s and Vice President Dick Cheney’s remarks indicate 22 mentions in December and January, four in February, five in March, one in April, and three in May.
The reason seems clear: The Medicare expansion, once viewed as a crucial link between Bush and seniors, is now a subject of intense scorn among many seniors.
Then there’s the gun that may be turning out to be smaller calibre than expected: Scott Kirsner reports evidence that the adoption of RFID tags is going more slowly than many anticipated. He says they are still too expensive, suffer from poor quality assurance, don’t work with all goods, are not yet standardized, and are frequently used in demanding environments. Worse, he says, companies haven’t thought through how they’ll handle the massive amounts of data RFIDs will generate. Scott expects RFIDs to be adopted widely, but not for the next few years.
May 27, 2004
The Passion of the Present is out to raise awareness of the Sudan:
In Darfur, a region in southern Sudan approximately the size of Texas, over a million people are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Imagine a militia that forces parents to choose whether their children will be burned alive or shot to death. Imagine that in the very same month the world remembers the genocides of Cambodia and Rwanda, the unfolding news of another in Sudan is barely heard and largely ignored.
It includes a useful list of background info on the Sudan.
May 21, 2004
Thomas Barnett, the author of The Pentagon’s New Map, a book I’m hearing good things about, has a rollicking good blog. (It was the Feedster Site o’ the Day earlier this week.) He’s been writing rather wickedly about dealing with the media interest in his book recently.
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