Archive for the 'politics' Category
An account of a the recent Tea Party Convention. Points out the rifts between the libertarian and evangelical components of the movement, which is overwhelmingly elderly, white and affluent.
"'You know, I phoned my husband last night. I told him that being here has made me realize that I am a *liberal* conservative.'"
Thoughtful piece on the history of the NSA, the future of information (yottabytes?!), and political and electrical power.
Visualized history of the colored alert system of the Department of Homeland Security. Demonstrates that in the history of the color alert system, there has never been a day when the alert has been Green or Blue.
Record of campaign promises kept by the Obama administration. The little widgets with the Obama faces on them are sort of ludicrous, but I'll be checking this thing every few days. Also, No. 502 is getting his daughters a puppy.
"Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, 'When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.' From the audience, Frank called out, 'Sometimes it is!'"
Only slightly more frivolous. Favorites include: Tastycrats, Party of Girls, Anal Compulsive Party, National Bocialist Party.
Arguably, this list could stand to be muchh longer, but apparently any party (such as the Constitution party in the US) with any legitimate elements to its party platform is not considered frivolous.
Primer on the war in Iraq, and its political origins and ramifications.
Roll call on today's City Council vote to approve congestion pricing in the city of New York. My councilman, Bill deBlasio, who is running for borough president, voted "No", which seems to be a politically questionable move. He's probably lost my vote.
Our President's interpretation of the subject of this painting is somewhat at odds with it's historically verifiable context, in a humorously apt way. But this account begs the question (again): what is the place of the viewer in interpretation?
Nice longish read about the history of the US's war on drugs. For fans of Traffik/c and The Wire.
My work in print. Sort of. In print, online. FYI, a little teaching moment: Placing targets over the faces of politicians is an established tactic within the HIV/AIDS activist community to represent a politician who's a target for ire.
I haven't had the chance to delve too far into their archives, but this seems really interesting.
