so goes the famous quote from edward furia of afstrinity. that companys retrofitted saturn vue suv certainly received a lot of mainstream media publicity this year. by turning it into a plugin hybrid they got it to go clean for 40 miles on electrons before taking its first sip.ever since we were finally blasted with the gas prices the rest of the world has endured for years we have seen astounding...
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rhetorical questions who will win the presidential debates what does each candidates use of words say about how he would govern as president can obamas rhetorical skills lift him to the heights of lincoln fdr and reaganor will his speechmaking do him in after watching all 47 of the primary seasons debates our correspondent has the answersand some harsh criticism for the moderators. the lives of ...
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daniel fleshbourne this will surprise no one here but its important to remember as the pb2.0 attempts to regain some of the political influence pissed away by the previous incarnation. rpr. if indeed walmart is mobilizing its employees to vote against read more......
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progressive blogosphere 2.0 why social justice matters preview of coming attractions whither progressive blogosphere 2.0 becoming blog ecologists pb2.0 consilience and the third culture read the comments on this post.........
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duh.a and where are senators obama and mccain on thisa inquiring minds want to know sign the petition in the name of all that is right and just in the world.a ht lambert at corrente.......
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as expected the witless overreaction to a bernie mac riff that mona mentioned has metastasized into regions of the internet where irony goes to die. and boy oh boy the combination of exemplary hackery and hysteria yields a mighty entertaining synthesis. take this bit of apoplexy from lambert of corrente wire the lead blogger of one of the most prominent proclinton blogs during the primaries. he i ...
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im going to be traveling almost continuously from now until august 4th. itll be a thing hopefully fun. i may post some from netroots nation and expect ill probably be back but im considering an openended sabbatical from online politics and dont plan to announce anything more about it i know you were just hanging on this news anyway. its just not clear to me what my goals are in all this anymore. e...
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by coincidence today amidst the news of the senatesacapitulation on the fisa voteai stumbled upon a new installationaon collaborative artain the main library at my university baa ram u.a this is a mixedmedia merrygoround of four ponies with questions and answers typed on them that lead the readerviewer into some excellent circular logic.a the artists are stefani rossi and chloe leisure.a well imag...
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take a look at this opinion of obamas stance on faithbased charities. i agree with it except that i will be voting for obama in november and i will be carping at him for the next 48 years too. read the comments on this post.........
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the faint are set to release their album fasciinatiion on august 5 through their own new label blank.wav. press play to hear the first new track the geeks were right. brings to mind the ieees recent report the singularity current discussions at the aspen ideas festival and warnings on fisa and global warming. listen to the faint listen to the geeks......
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never mind that hes a tough and cool politician now.a never mind that he looks like captain scarlets bossacolonel white commander in chief of spectrum.a gen. wesley clark was the supreme allied commander europe of nato.a do you know what that meansa well neither do i at least not exactly but i do know that thats about the greatest job title ever.a most of the media morons piling on wes clark this ...
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i promise this isnt going to turn into a gardening blog well not exclusively but i do want to link to this interesting piece on attracting european honey bees which includes a recipe thats supposed to bring the little suckers runninger flying to pollinate all those flowers that make yummy fruits and vegetables. have yall tried something similar if so have you had success......
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reporter mr. gandhi what do you think of western civilization gandhi i think it would be a good idea the desire to control and harm an 11yrold incest victim makes the point that an average woman isnt sympathetic enough to deserve better treatment. el baradei says attack on iran would be a disaster. the united states congress appears to disagree. everybody gets the message that climate change is a...
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sen. gordon smith ror is catching some flak from liberal blogs and lgbt activists for his admittedly confusing recent comments linking his thoughts on samesex marriage to late 19th century pro or per secution of mormon polygamy. he voted for the federal marriage amendment which would define marriage as one man and one woman for federal purposes and needlessly clarify that antissm states would not...
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barack obamas speech on fathers day barack gave a bill cosbyish speech no mention of jello pudding pops. tags politics video inspiration barackobama fathersday obama family imf data mapper visualizations of several datapoints from the imf. tags data economics statistics imf visualization flash database sanity check will technology empower gen y to wipe away our institutions tech sanity check ...
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im so excited that i found bat guana below the bat house. the bats were flying in and out so often that i think they were feeding their babies. im tempted to buy a triple decker bat house.......
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for senator clintons speech today see roxies world for onthescene reportage including some really nice photos of their very own.a i dont have anything to add to roxies nice overview and commentary so go there and enjoy.a thanks roxie for your intrepid onthescene activism reporting and photography these past two weekends.a please try to avoid the patronizing commentary about the speech.a and is any...
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ive long been a fan of the use of games and sims as a way of working through futurefacing issues. the big advantage of games as a foresight device is the capacity to fail in interesting ways you can try out different even bizarre strategies for success and do so without worry of harming yourself or others. its a form of rehearsal a way to understand the ways in which the present may be manipulate...
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ive a passion for music and keep looking for good articles. today i checked if i could find more info by entering lambert in google and found this what ezra said submitted by lambert on tue 20070703 1854. class warfare department of bingo in the atlantic its fascinating how much more concerned conservative types are with a canadian source what ezra said corrente boldly shrill not...
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attorney general michael mukasey continues to be a disgrace to his office and his country. in a commencement address to boston college law school he said viain short the message sent to our national security lawyers in the aftermath of the september 11 attacks was clear it was bipartisan and it was all but unanimous. it was that the legal culture in our intelligence agencies and in the justice dep...
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andrew stephen in the new statesman.a just read it.a ht to corrente. the one point i dont agree with is his claim that obama is perhaps the least qualified presidential nominee ever.a that seems to be hyperbolic at best living as we are in the shadows of the wreckage of the george w. bush presidency.a obama wasnt a drunkenapartyboy until the age of 40 and didnt have a father whose wealth and conne...
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if you type torture plus election into google news today nothing much comes up. interrogation plus election doesnt yield much either. this is puzzling since americas interrogation tactics arguably affect its reputation profoundly. youd think this might be more of an issue on the campaign trail. tortureinterrogation plain and simple though minus the election part is certainly in the news a recent...
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hillary clinton won the kentucky primary yesterdayaby a whopping 35.a thats righta with clintons 65 percent to 30 percent barack obamasapercentage of the voteais lowerathan the gap by which he lost.a obama won oregon by an impressive 16.a clinton won more votes and more delegates last night and yet the headline in the print edition of theadenver post this morning reads obama edges closer.a the lin...
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from erica barnett ive said it beforebut because some slog readers seem to still think i believe any attack on clinton is a sexist attack ill say it again the misogyny from the media from supposedly liberal blogger doodz commenters on this blog and just about everywhere during this campaign has been despicable. this kind of shit ought to be behind us hillary clinton is a bitch. a big ol bitchy bi...
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