Currently browsing the category “good things”.
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CNN accidentally commits serious journalism.
Interviews David Neiwert of the excellent Orcinus about First Dude Todd Palin’s connections to (and Sarah Palin’s gushing endorsement of) the separatist neo-fascist Alaska Independence Party. I happened to be eating lunch (pretty much the only time I watch CNN) when this came on, and my jaw dropped. Rick Sanchez remains a cretinous blowhard, but [...]
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Perfect
I don’t know who this is aimed at, but I like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxvHkFLmqRk
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actual journalism
Courtesy of McClatchy:
WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.
Commentators say that’s what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They’ve [...] -
Ohio hope.
One snippet from George Packer’s long and very good article in a recent New Yorker:
Price and I drove down Route 33 from Athens, into Meigs County and a town called Pomeroy, which once had been a loading dock for coal barges and now lay prostrate and blighted along the Ohio River. Across the river was [...] -
I say we invade and steal their brains…
because they seem to have understood cause and effect a bit better than the “deregulate!” clowns:
TORONTO - High banking standards have kept Canada’s financial institutions afloat and out of the kind of trouble that has sunk many of their international peers, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday.
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Sanity on the right.
Not every Republican thinks power is the ultimate good:
GRAND RAPIDS — He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party’s nominee.
“He is not the McCain I endorsed,” said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. “He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ [...]