Category Archives: News

Keeping up with politics? ...

10Sep2008 3 Comments
So I’m actu­ally try­ing to keep up with pol­i­tics; call it the spirit of the times. I’m hav­ing a hard time find­ing what to read with­out it com­pletely con­sum­ing my time. Won­der­ing what every­one else reads. Here, I’ll start: Ken shared Don­kle­phant with me about a year ago, a (gen­er­ally) bal­anced source of polit­i­cal news. Not [...]

In which I actually address a political rumor ...

06Sep2008 Leave a comment
A few days late, but I spent the first days of this week read­ing about some dis­crep­an­cies in Sarah Palin’s recent preg­nancy. Sum­mary: some peo­ple think the child is actu­ally her daughter’s (and that her daughter’s cur­rent preg­nancy is a cover-up). iRe­port had an arti­cle, but Karion’s arti­cle was more inter­est­ing (i.e. more sources), and [...]

Obama Mobilizing His Followers via Twitter ...

20Aug2008 4 Comments
On the Web, Obama’s Twit­ter site now has more than 60,000 fol­low­ers, who receive updates from Obama’s town hall meet­ings and links to his Web site. The arti­cle also men­tions that “Repub­li­can John McCain’s cam­paign, mean­while, has not high­lighted text mes­sages,” Instead McCain is going old-school with viral YouTube videos, [sic] “McCain’s recent ‘Celeb’ ad, which [...]
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