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Does John McCain approve of this skit from SNL?

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:September 21, 2008
Post category:American Culture Humor Politics
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Here's SNL's recent skit concerning John McCain's wave of dishonest campaign ads:

Governor Sarah A/K/A “Caribou Barbie” Palin Mounts Coup

Post author:Tim Hogan
Post published:September 19, 2008
Post category:American Culture Politics
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McCain said to not care crowd walked out after Gov. Palin’s speech “Hey, she can see Russia from her porch!” (Faux News, September 19, 2008). At a speech today in New Mexico, GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin announced that the “Palin-McCain ticket” will prevail in the November election. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKQDyL5gzc&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/palin-steals-mccain-rally_n_127480.html[/youtube]…

Why isn’t Barack Obama way ahead in the polls?

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:September 17, 2008
Post category:American Culture Media Politics snake oil
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Why isn't Senator Barack Obama way ahead of John McCain in the polls? Why is this race so tight? Bob Cesca has an idea: Hmm. I can't imagine why that is. It's not like Senator Obama's patriotism and character is being assassinated for three hours every morning on cable news…

Ignorance Rampant

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:September 17, 2008
Post category:American Culture Communication Culture Current Events Economy Education Fraud Good and Evil History ignorance Language Politics Science snake oil
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The following is a quote lifted from Charlie Stross's blog and is pretty much In Full. We. Are. Not. Going. To. Die. On. Wednesday. The maximum energy the particles generated by the LHC (7TeV) get up to is many orders of magnitude below the maximum energy of cosmic rays that…

In exactly what ways should we keep our children ignorant about sex?

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:September 16, 2008
Post category:American Culture Censorship Education Health Medicine Religion Reproductive Rights Sex
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At DI, we have an extremely conservative fellow visiting the blog these days. He's trying to convert all of us to his reactionary world view. He clings to his Bible as a book of literal truths and he seems to love everything that Sarah Palin ostensibly stands for. I'd like…

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