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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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6/3/10 Love the commons; hate politics.

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an essay, in pictures

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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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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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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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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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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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