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Former Florida governor, Charlie “I Must Find out Where They are Going So I Can Lead Them” Crist, endorses the president. Read more
Former Florida governor, Charlie “I Must Find out Where They are Going So I Can Lead Them” Crist, endorses the president. Read more
If [Romney] is not successful, holy Toledo, there will be hell to pay in this party. The right wing is going to drive further right,” said Gross, Romney’s former Iowa chairman. But that may happen even if he does win. For the Republican Party has decided that Mitt Romney is the means to an end. Which is exactly the point he has been making all along. Mitt Romney’s road to Tampa – Karen Tumulty – The Washington Post Read more
Another joke, a bit more wistful and a bit closer to the bone, comes when people tell him that he would have governed differently than Mr. Bush. Mr. Gore usually replies, “You know what: I would have just made different mistakes. The End of the Line – NYTimes.com Read more
We’re going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. You don’t need a stylus. It’s far more accurate than any touch display that’s ever been shipped. It ignores unintended touches, it’s super-smart. You can do multi-finger gestures on it. And boy, have we patented it. Steve Jobs, on January 9, 2007 unveiling the iPhone. The other money quote. (via @tconrad) Read more
Andrew Sullivan, whose writing I generally adore, is, I think, really wrong on an important aspect of horse-race analysis for the presidential election. His prescription for Obama at the Democratic Convention: … if I were to offer a single piece of advice to the campaign, it would be to use the convention to declare that he would sign Bowles-Simpson as written if it came to his desk. He’d instantly own the fiscal center, isolate the GOP’s extremism, and reaffirm his... Read more
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Twisted Sister joined a list of other artists telling Romney/Ryan to stop using their music, but this is especially interesting to me, because how do Romney and Ryan not realize that they are, in fact, the “it” we’re no longer gonna take? Jed Groettum Read more
I believe that it is possible to believe women and to support WikiLeaks at the same time without moral hypocrisy, and I believe that those across the left who seem to have a problem with holding those two simple ideas in their heads at the same time need to ask themselves what accountability actually means. Nobody should be forced to choose between defending investigative journalism and freedom of speech, and fighting for justice in the global war on women’s bodies.... Read more
Is fantasy intrinsically hostile to technology? That is, was Tolkien simply drawing out what is already there in the genre? Or has he limited it in unnecessary ways? What would a fantasy that embraces technology look like? Arthur Weasley’s fascination with Muggle tech in the Harry Potter books is simply comical — though a great source of fun in the books. I’d like to see a writer imagine what technologies would arise in a fictional world where magic rules but... Read more
An update for my tens of readers. The White House petition for Alexander Aan pushed by my employing organization failed to achieve orbit. Ironically, that failure has arguably garnered more attention than the effort itself. Anyway, I had some strong feelings about said failure, and wrote about it at Friendly Atheist in the form of an open letter to Aan. Then, it turns out, folks who read it had even stronger feelings about what I wrote, and I’ve been getting... Read more
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