Not mention the guy in Arkansas lately and Senator Wellstone.

Posted at August 25, 2008 8:55 PM in response to Report: Law Enforcement Sources Say They're Probing Possible Obama Assassination Plot

Maybe it's not the cost of the renovations but whether they were acquired improperly that's at issue here? Or maybe his defense is that the renovations where some kind of assaultive or guerrilla renovations to defame him, a case of coercive renovations that occurred against his will perhaps?

Get these people out of our government please!

Posted at August 4, 2008 5:34 PM in response to Stevens Seeks Trial In Alaska To Allow For Nighttime Campaigning

The wealthy seem to think that they are entitled to privileges that the rest of are not. When Joe sixpack's wife has to post his $500 bail, she doesn't get to be anonymous or get special press coverage. Maybe the fact he wants to be anonymous should prompt him to think of the ethics of what he's doing anyway.

Posted at July 15, 2008 12:41 PM in response to Brent Wilkes' "Secret Benefactor" Wants to Assure Anonymity Before Paying Bail

Yeah, these guys, the dems, they've been collaborators with Bush-Cheney all along. When it really mattered, they remained seated and silent on a whole range of issues. The mendacity is so pungent it makes me want to vomit.

Posted at July 8, 2008 1:21 PM in response to Waxman Threatens Attorney General with Contempt

This inequality of wealth problem is like global warming, it simply exists. And just like global warming, it has taken us a while to dig this hole, and it will take some time to get out of it. I think we start doing something about it now, no need to debate the nuances of how it exists. Time for solutions, and aggressive ones.

Posted at July 3, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

I think virtual realities are over hyped. Many of our basic and necessary human functions and needs can never be virtual, like eating and breathing. These necessities and so on are also the neurogenesis of our essential nature. In our ancestral environment, which we are the product of, food gathering led to cooperation, kinship, and social structures and other derivative activities that have become "who we are". Certainly some of these elements can improvised and even replaced with virtual environments, but I think we'll hit a brick wall sooner or later. Already we see some "pathological" results of internet usage such as addictions, I'd say mood and learning disorders too.
It is accepted scientific fact that our brains have a high degree of plasticity, and when we jump from one stimulus to another on the web, we are employing new strategies of learning that encourage new neuro-circuitry which accommodates the new regime. This is really adaptive to an extent, and that extent or brick wall is when it conflicts with hard realities that will always be there. One way around this might be to hybridize the species with cybernetic components. This would probably come from military industrial R&D, to application, then handed off to a shell or allied production unit for mass consumption. My guess is that it would fall best into the purview of telecommunication producing entities as the early application might be reliant on wireless I/O interfaces.

Posted at June 18, 2008 1:48 AM in response to Speculation on social status in an age of networked participation

This story also illustrates McCain's failing mental faculties. He doesn't remember talking to close associates, who's a sunni who's a shia and so on. I don't think someone so old and forgetful should be president.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:05 PM in response to Today's Must Read

This is an electorate that elected Bush twice. That's the facts. Hillary has more of them and they vote on ignorant impulses. Obama appeals more to folks who have a big picture view, so you would expect them to vote for anyone but a Repub. in the general. But sadly the fact remains, that people vote against their own class interests. The Republicans don't just appeal to ignorance they try to remove the means by which people might be able to make informed thoughtful decisions. Like cutting educational spending, supporting media that arouses primitive drives for profit, manufacturing wars and fears. Furthermore, it isn't going to get any better, it's a race to the bottom at this point, beautifully expressed in this election cycle.

Posted at May 6, 2008 7:12 PM in response to CNN: Exits Show That Half Of Hillary's Indiana Backers Say They Wouldn't Back Obama Against McCain

I sure hope they hold off on the prosecution of Rove et al. until after Bush. I don't think Obama would pardon Rove, but Hillary who knows.

It would be nice to see Hillary and Obama pledge to a 100 day period of constitutional repair starting on day one of their administration. They could clean Justice and they rest of it and begin other serious investigations that have been avoided during the Bush years. It's the legacy he deserves.

Posted at April 7, 2008 3:17 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Hmmm, looks like what they call ex post facto data snooping. It is more likely a total coincidence in my opinion. I'm sure the facts are correct. What you could do to recreate this "find" is take data from all states of any kind, and find how a strong correlation of some variable like say milk consumption per capita is, and find one from these states that is strong. Who knows, maybe they drink less or more milk in those states, or it comes from a single dairy...Then what, the forces of evil are adding an anti Obama ingredient? Too silly. This will get some play because enough people like this kind of stuff to be true, just like tarot card readings.

Posted at April 3, 2008 4:00 AM in response to Obama & The Dynamic Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken