I wasn't going to bother with one at all, but then I realized I had a post for the 2004 and even for the 2006! Apparently in NJ you can get an absentee ballot regardless of reason, so I voted a few days before Nov. 4. No fuss, no hassle, no excitement (although while waiting longer and longer for my ballot to arrive, I did worry if I had somehow ( Read more... )

This might be the most hilarious thing on the internet:

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Well, that headline says it all, doesn't it. The rest of it here ("Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq" by Maggie Fox, Reuters). Some excerpts:

"Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in ( Read more... )

Look, more Bush administration lies. This is a long article, so to summarize it briefly: it reads like an excerpt straight out of 1984. A smokescreen of war created by a governmentally controlled media in order to maintain socioeconomic status quo. Some choice bits (I do urge you to read the article in it's entirety):

From "Message Machine Behind TV ( Read more... )

Ok, so most of this article by  PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer is terribly dull, but it has really interesting moments. Or at least moments with potential (all of which are excerpted below):

"The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch ( Read more... )

There is the logic of the quote attributed to Stalin--something along the lines of one death is a tragedy while millions are a statistic. But what happens in a culture that depends on the statistic? Consider, for us, wars mean statistics--the number of casualties is counted jealously, hoarded, recreated in empty pairs of army boots at war protests ( Read more... )

Again wasting time, but sometimes, journalists know how to be witty ( Read more... )