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11/2/10 One guy’s progressive endorsements

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In which Jason waxes lengthy about the three-page ballot he has to drop off Tuesday at his polling place.

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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 [...]

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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: 120056 followers 359 updates following 56370 people You may follow Gov. Schwarzenegger as well by clicking on the “follow” button on their profile. You may also block Gov. Schwarzenegger if you [...]

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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 [...]

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