Today's news is that Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama. Rather than being an unusual event, Powell's endorsement of Obama is simply the continuation of a trend: Conservatives endorsing Barack Obama. George Will wrote; “Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie…
In the September 19, 2008 Editorial of Science (available only to subscribers online), Normal R. Augustine reports lots of sobering news regarding the state of science in the U.S. Here's a sampling: The United States ranks 16th and 20th among nations in college and high-school graduation rates, respectively; 60th in…
Frank Rich makes this point in the NYT: McCain has been a strong supporter of the policies of George W. Bush: Why didn’t McCain run against President Bush four years ago — as he had four years before that? Instead McCain campaigned for Bush’s re-election, cheered for Bush policies he…
This is a YouTube complilation based on a speech made from the 1976 movie Network. This tube is the gospel . . . Television is a god-damned amusement park . . . you're never going to get any truth from us . . . Turn off your TV. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIq46PYxveg&NR=1[/youtube] Related…
Here's one example. Here's what Michelle Goldberg, writing for the UK Guardian, has to say about Sarah Palin: Evidently, Palin's pre-debate handlers judged her incapable of speaking on a fairly wide range of subjects, and so instructed to her to simply disregard questions that did not invite memorised talking points…