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  The Great Schlep

  09.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My favorite female Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman has a new campaign at The Great Schlep: “The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor.”

  See more Sarah Silverman videos at Funny or Die

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  Like grumpy toddlers

  09.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Debates now remind me of doing a parent hour at Niko’s coop day care. Only much less fun.

• news, politics

  Free Levi

  09.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From freelevi.org:

  If we can’t, after all is said and done, make this election go the right way, at least we can save one man. I’m talking about young Master Levi Johnston. He’s the 18-year-old Alaskan hockey enthusiast who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter, and the National Enquirer describes him as “a boozing pot-smoker who doesn’t [...]

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  What makes people vote Republican

  09.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As it turns out, it’s a genetic disorder:

  But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.

  Here’s hoping that the [...]

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  What Obama can learn from Bill Ritter

  09.04.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Interesting political piece in the New Yorker: The Code Of The West: What Barack Obama can learn from Bill Ritter.

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  Olympic boycott would insult Chinese

  07.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From cnn: Bush: Olympic boycott would insult Chinese. I think that’s the point.
  Not that I’m in favor of an olympic boycott, I just can’t resist the opportunity.

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  Strange Culture about Steve Kurtz

  03.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just netflixed Strange Culture, about the artist Steve Kurtz and the ridiculous, arrogant bastard justice department on a crusade against him and his artwork.

• news, politics

  Tibet

  03.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s easy right now to be worried about the economy, our jobs and our investments. At the moment though, I’m just happy to not live in Tibet.

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  Interesting New Yorker item on Clinton-Obama

  02.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the New Yorker, The Choice
  The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency.

  But perhaps the most important difference between these two politicians - whose policy views, after all, are almost indistinguishable - lies in their rival conceptions of the Presidency. Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome [...]

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  GWB’s legacy

  01.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From dems.gov (so totally unpartisan) The Country He Inherited, The Country He Leaves Behind. Ouch.

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