Why would we elect one of the prisoners at Guantanamo as the next President of the United States? Well, the logic is becoming quite clear to anyone who has followed the corporate news media for the past few days. Prisoners at Guantanamo have that special ingredient that John McCain has that makes him [...]
Amy Goodman recently interviewed Ralph Nader at DemocracyNow. Nader was not sold on Obama:
Barack Obama really now has to be examined very carefully. He has worn out the word “change.” We now want to know what change is involved. And it’s quite clear that he is a corporate candidate from A to Z. [...]
This year’s presidential campaign offers a choice between 72-year old John McCain and 46-year old Barack Obama. This large difference in age provoked Christopher Beam of Slate to review the scientific literature comparing the function of old brains versus younger brains. Here are a few things to contemplate, assuming your brain is spry enough to [...]
Marty Kaplan, a research professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, repeatedly raises important points relating to our dysfunctional news media. He posted today on his ambivalence with the recently announced candidacy of Ralph Nader.
Nader, who skipped the primaries, says that his third-party race will inject into the fall campaign issues like single-payer health [...]
I often notice left-handedness, perhaps because I am a left-hander. A few days ago, while watching a video of the most recent Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama debate, I noticed that Barack Obama was left-handed (he was taking notes with his left hand). That video reminded me that Bill Clinton was also a leftie.
After reading this ABC [...]
These were concocted by John Cole of Balloon Juice (via Andrew Sullivan):
1.) “Would you have sex with a man to stop a terrorist attack?”
2.) “If lowering taxes results in increased revenues then would lowering taxes to zero result in infinite revenues?”
3.) “If you had a time machine, would you travel back in time and abort [...]
The current edition of Science (September 7, 2007- articles available only to subscribers online) contains a short article entitled “The Art of Virtual Persuasion.” The author notes a wide variety of studies that have shown that “people who mimic the gestures or speech of others are often perceived by those they mimic as more likable [...]
