Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
As a general rule I’m extremely suspicious of any attempts to express ideology numerically. Ideology is a very complex thing - more complex than a simple left-to-right scale could ever show. It reminds me a bit of the light side/dark side system in the game Knights of the Old Republic - apparently, Darth Lieberman gets […]
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Matt Taibbi, besides being one of the sharpest journalists writing today and the greatest gonzo since Hunter S. himself, is also a former writer for an underground Russian newspaper. So when he writes about Russian political assassination, I suggest you all listen.
This is a situation that deserves some close attention anyway, and not just because, […]
Time to party like it’s 1988.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006I try to avoid putting too much thought into the 2008 presidential election - the dust has barely just settled from the 2006 midterms, and we’ve got some, you know, important governing stuff to do between now and gearing up for the next big campaign. But that doesn’t stop the fact that the media is […]
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
It got lost in the midst of the Rumsfeld resignation, but a senior advisor in the State Department - Philip Zelikow - also resigned recently. And no, I had never heard of him before either. But this post sounds credible, given what I know about the tense relationship between the Rumsfeld-Cheney faction of the administration […]
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
So much for the party of fiscal responsibility. First the Republicans bring us what is now almost a $9 trillion deficit, and then they run their own Senate campaign committee into massive debt. Oops.
This isn’t just a good thing because it throws a large cog in the Republican campaign machine, although there is that. It’s […]
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Hey, look everyone, I have a blog.
This isn’t my first blog, by any means. This is just the latest in a long series of aborted attempts to be a blogger, but I’m feeling pretty confident about this one.
Anyway, welcome to Veritosity, which is kind of like truthiness, but in Latin so it automatically sounds more […]