Can't resist this

Here's a novel take on a political ad. Subtle but effective. It's the 'Wassup' gang from the Budweiser commercials, 8 years ...

Political language

A topic that needs more discussion, and here's a great one from Anil Dash on What Sarah Palin is Saying .

Here's your chance....

To carve a pumpkin online . The only one I'll do this year..... Thanks to Knox Views Ashvegas.

What they think matters

Via Achenblog , a fun graphic from Foreign Policy: If the world could vote ... Heresy to some who think we should ignore what the world thin...

Facebooking

Posting is slow again as I've been undergoing some medical treatments that slow me down. But over the last couple days I've succumbe...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) On Oct 2, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas w...

Help for researchers

I hadn't heard of Google's 'In Quotes' until I saw it mentioned in the AskSam newsletter. What an intriguing idea, and hope...

Newspaper by hand

Roy Greenslade points us to a new newspaper being published in London, on a very tiny basis: The Manual is an actual hand drawn, hand lette...

Politics today

Interesting stuff (updated, see last entries): From Christopher Buckley (son of William F.) in The Beast : Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting fo...

For those who care....

...about politics, anyway, an amazing effort by the staff of Esquire to put together a database of endorsements of every Congressional-and-...

Cheap shots, or real facts?

Here's a well- researched compilation at Random Pixels of various published reports on the details of John McCain's service record. ...