It seems like Birch Bayh and John Anderson (disclaimer: the latter is one of my longtime political heroes) are creating a national campaign to amend the constitution to rid it of the age-old injustice known as the Electoral College. I think the timing’s right; the 2000 election is far enough in the past that this […]
Yesterday’s bombing of a sacred Shi’ite mosque in Samarra was called “Iraq’s 9/11″ by one of the nation’s vice presidents. While that’s accurate in estimating the scale of the attack to the Iraqi psyche, the ensuing sectarian violence makes it more accurate to describe this as an Iraqi Fort Sumter: the beginning of a long-brewing […]
Folks, I have a small announcement to make. Today I noticed that The Daily Background’s Google PageRank score is a 4 out of 10. This is the first day which the site has had a PageRank over zero, so that sort of made my day. That is all. Nothing for you to see here, move […]
Sorry about the lack of real posts today. Unfortunately it’s been (and continues to be) quite busy in terms of class related work. Posting will be back to normal tomorrow, but in the meantime, I’d encourage you to check out the following recent posts:
Darfur for Dummies
Darfur: Let’s put this in context
Darfur: An inconvenient […]
The President as a victim.
Innnnnteresting.
British tech news site, The Register:
Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters “allah”.
Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Wow. Osama is a fairly common name in some places in the world. I often walk by the […]
Kos has the latest Lieberman approval/disapproval ratings. Summary? They’re going down. But check out Kos’ post, it’s got some insightful comments (and he’s got a pretty chart).
Your tax money goes to… paying for possibly unsafe surgical slimming procedures?
ThinkProgress says it’s starting early this year.
Yesterday, I wrote:
I think Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has been watching too much FAUX “news”. Somebody send him a FOX Blocker.
Update: Aravosis of AMERICAblog offers his thoughts.
Well, apparently he got what was coming to him.
Darfur. And no, not the Darfur in Minnesota, either.
Earlier today, I wrote posts explaining the situation in Darfur, and explaining the historical context of the Darfur tragedy, which is very important. I promised in both of them that I’d be writing a post looking at the White House’s response to the genocide. This is that […]
Oh-ho. This is rich.
Rummy has changed his tune on the U.S. taxpayer-funded propaganda in Iraq.
Earlier today, I posted an entry called Darfur for Dummies. Go read it if you haven’t already. At the end of that item, I promised that later today, I’d write a followup, examining the Bush Administration’s response to the crisis in Darfur. Before I post that, I thought we’d put Darfur in its proper historical […]
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