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I guess this is a big deal- the release of the 4th version of the uber-violent video game that has made it’s creators gazillionaires- all the internet’s a buzz with previews of the game. I am not a video game person, myself. The last video game I played was Atari’s frogger
I am someone [...]

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Hey, everyone changes their minds, right?
Well, if you are a Democrat it’s called a flip-flop but if you are a Republican, then you are simply acknowledging changing circumstances and making appropriate corrections.

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Glenn Greenwald has an interesting opinion-piece up over at Salon which discusses some of the assumptions the candidates seem to be making about how to attract the ‘Jewish vote’, as though it’s a monolithic, one-issue interest-group, which it’s not. He points out how some of the media and politician’s assumptions are based on stereotypes [...]

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Pretty soon global warming will not only be fully acknowledged by the political right out of necessity (they’ve already pretty much had to do that), but realize that with it comes new financial opportunity– new shipping lanes are opening up where previously there had only been impenetrable ice and we can look forward to a [...]

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Meet the War On Terror, LLC. It’s a business everybody wants in on.
The sad thing is, there are huge, gaping voids where funding and resources should go- protecting nuclear facilities, water supplies and our ports, providing the most basic communication equipment (that actually works):

Yet six years after 9/11, most first responders still lack the [...]

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Hamid Karzai survived an organized Taliban attack during a national celebration in Afghanistan yesterday.
The media has largely ignored all but the most obvious and alarming incidents in Afghanistan over the past 3 years, but it’s getting harder for them to continue along that vein. Some responsible media outlets and military blogs have [...]

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A story that has been making it’s way through the media, involves the allegations of nuclear proliferation in Syria and the evidence (or lack thereof) leading up to Israel’s attack approximately seven weeks ago on a Syrian facility claimed by the Israelis to be a nuclear reactor. Some are questioning the evidence and some [...]

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We. Do. Not. Torture.

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I guess if you think the average American is dumb-as-rocks, bringing the campaign discourse essentially down to the level of “the candidate I don’t like hates God and hates America”, is acceptable. And I guess so long as the likes of Peggy Noonan can keep blowing smoke up our asses with a constant refrain [...]

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You gotta love this ad that John McCain is ‘distancing’ himself from and ‘denouncing’. His campaign had nothing to do with the ad, but that’s not the point. Just like Bush had nothing to do with the ads from the ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’, which attacked John Kerry’s military service. And [...]

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