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What do we disagree on really? Today I just learned that another friend of mine is voting for Bush. It baffles me that anyone would want to keep someone so dishonest, so elitist, and so fanatical. I just took a political survey, which determined through a quick 30+ question survey that I’m […]

Pretty funny stuff: Apparently (I was too tired to actually listen to the old warhawk drone on) Dick Cheney repeatedly plugged factcheck.com in his debate against John Edwards last night. Go ahead and click it for the punch line, before I spoil it for you.
Thanks to comments by “Bat Guano” on Kevin Drum’s blog […]

This really would explain a lot. Speech patterns, mispronunciations of words out of his vocabulary, shifty eye movements, audience perception of pre-shadowed audio in a different voice. Thanks to boingboing for sharing this link:Is Bush Wired?: The Voice in Bush’s Ear
If Bush is using an audio prompting device, whether implanted or external, […]

So you haven’t heard much of Abu Ghraib in the news lately? Maybe it’s all sorted out? You have faith that the guilty parties are being brought to justice? Good– it’s too sensitive a subject to talk about openly anyway. Let’s move on to our wish lists for the holidays right? […]

I’ve never really understood the power of height in western society. I’m not sure what the ratio is between the biological, or animal instict and the degree to which it’s become a sociological phenomenon. Nonetheless, it’s an indisputably deep-rooted meme that height equals power– especially, if not exclusively, among men. It doesn’t […]