'politics' Archive
funniest [redacted] subject line in a while
22 July 2008, 6:12 am
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I still want the bastards who send these things to all to go out of business and be forced to find honest work to feed their kids, but this one seems to capture the mood of the times, or anyway illuminate the current level of political discourse.
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Posted in politics, supposedly funny
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right before you get crushed
5 October 2007, 2:16 pm
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I’ve been really enjoying the logo and branding re-design critiques at Brand New, well, pretty much since it launched.
I’m surprised (and delighted) by just how partisan today’s entry on the RNC’s pachyderm is.
If I weren’t more disenchanted with the Green Party, I’d suggest that maybe it could be the “mouse that roared.”
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Posted in let's hear it for..., politics, marketing
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honk to impeach
26 August 2007, 11:07 am
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You’d probably expect me to be down with the Honk-to-impeach folks, and at first I was, but the more I think about it, the more this protest bugs me.
It creates an impression of consensus whether it exists or not. If anyone is honking, it seems like the traffic flow is in agreement with the sentiment. […]
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Posted in somerville, politics
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Libby’s sentence commuted
4 July 2007, 9:11 am
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see, e.g., Story at CNN
I feel like this should have generated way more public outrage, but I guess everybody was focused on the iPhone.
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Posted in politics
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we interrupt this broadcast for an emergency bulletin
27 March 2007, 8:48 am
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(for those of you who don’t read Slashdot. . .)
If you need anymore evidence that Diebold is pure evil, and that they deserve your eternal scorn and ridicule, but absolutely none of your cash, ever, how about this: They’re bringing a suit against the commonwealth of Massachusetts for awarding a contract to a competitor.
I’m checking my calendar […]
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Posted in politics, jeers, security
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new year’s resolutions: buy nothing days
14 January 2007, 1:43 pm
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I’m infuriated by the official U.S. Buy Nothing Day (read about it at Wikipedia, Adbusters). The organizers promote the day after Thanksgiving — i.e., one of the biggest shopping days of the year — as a good day to try to get people not to buy anything.
I think this is the same run-before-you-crawl error […]
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Posted in politics, marketing, personal
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Healey vetoes bike bill; Summervillain infuriated
6 January 2007, 12:11 pm
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I was initially tempted to consider Kerry Healey’s veto of “An Act Relative to Bicycle Safety” a parting shot of willful malice, but reading her note, it seems clear to me that it’s the result of cluelessness and incompetence: Healey thinks of bikes as a means of recreation, not transportation.
Given the price and environmental impact […]
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Posted in politics, bicycle safety
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paging Reverend Malthus
29 August 2006, 8:35 pm
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Once upon a time, I attended a conference about (unclassified) artificial intelligence applications in (defense) logistics. One presentation there trumped any horror flick I’ve ever seen for sheer terror. It dealt with robots designed to enter storage tanks that had a mixture of toxic contaminants, identify their contents, and neutralize them (if possible). What made […]
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Posted in weather, politics, personal, business, environment
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