archive for the 'I Hate Politics' category
8/2/10 Our brains reject facts, and misinformation makes us confident. Ah, well.
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This tab has been open in my browser at work since July 11th, because I’ve been meaning to finish reading this article and posting it, but I just haven’t gotten to it.
From “How facts backfire” in The Boston Globe:
[W]e often base our opinions on our beliefs, which can have an uneasy relationship with facts. [...]
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- Topics covered: Communication, I Hate Politics, Sad (if only to me), Unfinished Thoughts
- Written on August 2, 2010
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6/3/10 Love the commons; hate politics.
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- Topics covered: Amusing (if only to me), Fluff, I Hate Politics
- Also tagged with commons comic, flickr commons
- Written on June 3, 2010
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5/10/10 Flipping to the serious: Elena Kagan
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Links to some Glenn Greenwald blog entries about how far right Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is (surprisingly or not).
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- Topics covered: I Hate Politics, President Barack Obama
- Also tagged with doomed, Supreme Court
- Written on May 10, 2010
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4/2/10 Compare and contrast…
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“Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.” – George Washington, 1796
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- Topics covered: Communication, Culture, I Hate Politics, Miscommunication
- Also tagged with George Washington, political parties
- Written on April 2, 2010
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5/14/09 *Who’s* following me?
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Governor Schwarzenegger? Seriously? (Why?)
Hi, Jason L. Gohlke.
Gov. Schwarzenegger (Schwarzenegger) is now following your updates on Twitter.
A little information about Gov. Schwarzenegger:
[...]
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- Topics covered: Administrivia, Amusing (if only to me), Culture, Fluff, I Hate Politics, Life, Tech
- Written on May 14, 2009
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4/23/09 Maybe this is why everything is so screwed up.
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Our society’s elite opinionmakers are humongous hypocrites.
As the always-brilliant Glenn Greenwald writes in Three key rules of media behavior shape their discussions of “the ‘torture’ debate” at Salon.com:
[R]oughly 40% of Americans favor criminal prosecutions for Bush officials — even before release of the OLC memos — and large majorities favor investigations generally. The premise [...]
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- Topics covered: I Hate Politics
- Also tagged with Glenn Greenwald
- Written on April 23, 2009
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3/3/09 Obama reveals Bush administration crimes (part 2 1/2 of 9,347)
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I’m too angry to write about this, but I can’t let it go without note.
I’ll leave it to the esteemed Glenn Greenwald to explain the Bush-era documents that the Obama administration released yesterday detailing the regime of secret laws and memos the Bush administration used to rule the country (you know, instead of the Constitution [...]
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- Topics covered: I Hate Politics
- Written on March 3, 2009
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