Posts Tagged: conservatives


15
Jan 10

Creative Political Disruption

We try and try to work within the system.  A couple of years ago TBogg pointed out our naiveté of how the system really works?

Every year in Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land all of the sprites and elves and woodland creatures gather together to pick the Rainbow Sunshine Queen. Everyone is there: the Lollipop Guild, the Star-Twinkle Toddlers, the Sparkly Unicorns, the Cookie Baking Apple-cheeked Grandmothers, the Fluffy Bunny Bund, the Rumbly-Tumbly Pupperoos, the Snowflake Princesses, the Baby Duckies All-In-A-Row, the Laughing Babies, and the Dykes on Bikes. They have a big picnic with cupcakes and gumdrops and pudding pops, stopping only to cast their votes by throwing Magic Wishing Rocks into the Well of Laughter, Comity, and Good Intentions. Afterward they spend the rest of the night dancing and singing and waving glow sticks until dawn when they tumble sleepy-eyed into beds made of the purest and whitest goose down where they dream of angels and clouds of spun sugar.

You don’t live there.

Grow the fuck up.

Both parties fail us.  That’s obvious when the healthcare reform bill that passed with a supermajority is liked by no one and may still be scuttled over the incomprehensible possibility of losing Ted Kennedy seat in Massachusetts.


25
Nov 09

Envisioning Purity

I ran the text of the GOP’s Purity Test as reported in the NYTimes through Wordle to generate a visualization:

Wordle: GOP Purity Test Supports Opposing Progress

It appears that the GOP is supporting opposition of, well, everything.  Or something.


22
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 20th through November 22nd

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).


  • Matt Taibbi – Taibblog – Sarah Palin, WWE Star – True/Slant – At the end of this decade what we call “politics” has devolved into a kind of ongoing, brainless soap opera about dueling cultural resentments and the really cool thing about it, if you’re a TV news producer or a talk radio host, is that you can build the next day’s news cycle meme around pretty much anything at all, no matter how irrelevant — like who’s wearing a flag lapel pin and who isn’t, who spent $150K worth of campaign funds on clothes and who didn’t, who wore a t-shirt calling someone a cunt and who didn’t, and who put a picture of a former Vice Presidential candidate in jogging shorts on his magazine cover (and who didn’t).

10
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 8th through November 10th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Top 50 US Craft Brewers by Sales (MAP) | Sloshspot Blog – You may have seen the map we created earlier this year using the data from 2007 sales, and we now present the updated version with figures for 2008 sales. Once again, to be very clear, the rankings are determined by sales of those breweries that fit the criteria: small, independent and traditional (see the Brewers Association definition of Craft Brewers here). This is not a list of the best beers, so you won't see your local monastery that receives 101 bottles from Heaven each year. We also included some interesting information regarding recent brewery openings and closings.

4
Oct 09

Daily Links for October 2nd through October 4th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Choosing the Correct Statistical Test in SAS, Stata and SPSS
  • United States Gross National Happiness on Facebook – But grouped together, the status updates of millions of Facebook users from every demographic in the nation can work together to say something about how we as a nation are doing. Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement. This graph represents how "happy" the nation is doing from day to day, by looking at how many positive and negative words people are using when they update their status: When people are using more positive words (or fewer negative words) in their status updates than usual, that day is happier than usual!

2
Oct 09

Daily Links for October 1st through October 2nd

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Op-Ed Columnist – The Wizard of Beck – NYTimes.com – They pay more attention to Rush’s imaginary millions than to the real voters down the street. The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people. The party is leaderless right now because nobody has the guts to step outside the rigid parameters enforced by the radio jocks and create a new party identity. The party is losing because it has adopted a radio entertainer’s niche-building strategy, while abandoning the politician’s coalition-building strategy.

17
Sep 09

Daily Links for September 16th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Conor Friedersdorf – Metablog – Falling Out – True/Slant – IMHO, the large blogs failed to challenge Charles about what he was doing because they feared the damage he could do, even to them. That’s when I discovered what cowards they really are. Some of the little blogs — especially those who had already been banned by Charles — stuck with us and posted about the whole affair, but the big blogs ignored it.


11
Sep 09

Daily Links for September 9th through September 10th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • If You Printed The Internet … | CreativeCloud
  • Open Letter To The Angry Mob | APOLITICUS.COM – Don’t get us wrong. Individually, you may be top notch. You may be gentle folk who are saavy to the ways of the world. Like the good kid who starts to get bad grades when they hang out with the wrong crowd, you may have just lost your way. You may be dumb by association, or suffer from temporary dumbness. You may have a treatable version of dumb rather than a chronic dumb.

    It is with this hope, and with temporary absence of that guy in the bud hat sporting a “Obama eats puppies and washes them down with kittens” placard, that we offer you a few immutable facts to help you determine whether you are running with a smart angry mob or a dumb angry mob.


9
Aug 09

Daily Links for August 9th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Murdoch and Sirius [and Howard Stern] – Says a reader: How did he go from a must-hear personality who was constantly in the news for his antics or his outrageousness to a "whatever happened to?" has been? Simply, he was put behind a pay wall. Oprah has her own channel, but I've never heard it mentioned. If the King of All Media and a woman who has enough influence to swing a national election can't get people to pay, why on earth does Murdoch think he can?

4
Aug 09

Daily Links for August 4th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

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