Just read the dismal news that the Supreme Court has gutted the McCain-Feingold restrictions on campaign contributions that have been in effect for 20 years, thereby once again permitting corporations to make unlimited contributions to political campaigns.
The toxic influence of campaign donations on politics should be something that Republicans and Democrats could agree on, but [...]
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Anonymize Political Donations
January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
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Provide an Efficient Market for Pay TV
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Politics, TV
I’ve been following the News Corp vs. Time Warner Cable standoff over retransmission pricing, not because it affects us (we are longtime DirecTV satellite subscribers) but because it calls out how inefficient the market for pay TV is. The basis of the conflict is that News Corp (the content provider) is trying to shake down [...]
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Stop Responding to Terrorism with More Security Theater
December 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · News, Politics
Over Christmas we were following the story of the loon who attempted to set off some kind of incendiary device on an airplane. Today, this:
According to a statement posted Saturday morning on Air Canada’s Web site, the Transportation Security Administration will severely limit the behavior of both passengers and crew during flights in United States [...]
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Dan Savage: “Fuck Garrison Keillor”
December 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
Columnist Dan Savage, who is without question the foremost writer and speaker on behalf of marriage equality, flames the mindless scumbag Garrison Keillor hairless in this awesome blog post:
People opposed to same-sex marriage are just fucking addicted to double standards. Marriage is about children—unless you’re straight, in which case you can get married without having [...]
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We Have To Take Back This Country, and it Starts with Glenn Beck’s Internal Organs
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, The Funny
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Notes from a Polite Mob
August 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Health, Politics
Last week I got an email from Organizing for America, the internet organizing project of the Democratic National Committee. Normally when they send these out they’re asking for money (Q: “Can you commit to donating $10 a month until health care is passed?” A: “We’d love to, but sorry, we’re too poor after we get [...]
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Testimony to the New York City Council on Intro 991, Proposed Legislation for Open Data Standards
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Politics
Link: Testimony to the New York City Council on Intro 991, Proposed Legislation for Open Data Standards
Beyond a permissive regime around the availability of data, the City will also need to allow companies to make a market, and to charge, for the value-added services they build on top of the public platform. Certainly, companies should [...]
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Until Logic Did Them Apart
May 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
Link: Until Logic Did Them Apart
In a liberal society, consenting adults are presumed to be able to do as they like, and it is incumbent upon opponents of any such freedom to demonstrate some wider harm. The National Organization for Marriage, on its website, instructs its activists to answer the who-gets-harmed query like so: “Who [...]
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Shoe Toss Etch-a-Sketch
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Politics, The Funny
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Originally uploaded by etchasketchist
The Etch-a-Sketchist is an artist who uses Etch-a-Sketch as a medium. Here’s a recent work that depicts the incident during Bush’s last press conference in Iraq in which one of the journalists in the audience threw his shoes at him.
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Executive Booty Bump
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, The Funny
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
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