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An utter failure in domestic policy, an antagonizer of nations abroad, and a man whose presidential actions show very little but contempt for the wide majority of Americans whom he was selected to lead. George W. Bush should never have been president at all. So not only is he not worth voting for, he is [...]
Can I get a hallelujah and an amen for how absolutely little I care about either how John Kerry was says he was in Cambodia during the Vietnam War but maybe wasn’t, or how George Bush says he fulfilled his National Guard service, but maybe didn’t? I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care. [...]
Barack Obama’s speech at the DNC. Required reading, or viewing if you have RealPlayer at all.
This guy is the first politician who has ever made me want to vote for something, rather than voting to get rid of the incumbent. I do hope he runs for president when he’s done kicking ass in the Senate.
[...]How to leave Iraq in three simple steps. (via Sullydog)
Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq.
Dishonest Dubya Lying Action Figure. Complete with remote control. Change his outfits or make him repeat some of his more interesting public statements.
Betty Bowers’s Gift Shop. Don’t change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse.
And don’t miss the MIT Jack Valenti interview where he proves that he’s completely clueless about the technologies he’s spent so [...]
If it’s true that these rumors are flying around in Austin, I can tell you that they haven’t flown over here. Yet.
(Via Charlie Stross, of all people. Not that I don’t expect him to find stories like this, but he lives very, very far from here.)
Update: Via Particles, a very funny rumor roundup.
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The finalists in MoveOn.org’s ”Bush in 30 Seconds” contest have been chosen, and they are utterly wonderful. My favorites:
Child’s Pay
In My Country
What Are We Teaching Our Children?
Desktop
(visit the main site for links to low-bandwidth versions)
Some people have far too much spare time: there is a memorial page for the villain who met his end on this week’s Buffy. It’s very, very silly, although his epitaph is an amusing reference to Buffy’s.
Write your rep! RadioIO has a lovely form you can fax your Representative detailing why CARP is idotic. I don’t like their form letter, though. But the House has a handy form that lets you find and email your rep – Senators ought to be easy to find (you only have two, after all), but [...]
In some ways, shouldn’t our government be a little more like that of Iran? (via Electrolite)
– some Republican asshole wants to fund NASA by imposing a tax on space-related materials – science fiction books, toys, etc. Way to piss off supporters of the program, you idiot.
SF fans and professionals can’t even agree on what constitutes SF, and this guy wants the government to try it? Riiiiight.
In other news, I [...]
Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.
The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.
The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.
Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”
Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.
I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.
LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”