The Miami herald is reporting strange goings-on with voting machine glitches in Florida. It seems that the machines are prone to becoming mis-aligned, i.e. the touch screen “buttons” do not line up with the electronics inside. The result is an incorrect vote if the person is not paying attention at the Review portion of the [...]
We have now upgraded to the newest version of WordPress blogging software. Users should notice very little if any changes though. The one thing that will be different is that we have now instituted anti-comment spam measures that require all commentors to take an extra step prior to posting comments. You have all seen it [...]
The story just keeps getting better. Bush signed the new terror bill. In another ballsy move by the American establishment to piss off the entire globe, Bush signed a bill that undermines the very foundations of American legal values. Habeas corpus is suspended in some cases, military commissions have been instituted and affective backdoor methods [...]
Want to put some food for thought up real quick and maybe post a comment tomorrow on the subject. Recently the Supreme Court all but legalized no knock police raids in the case Hudson v. Michigan. You can read an opinion article here. An article from the NY Law Journal is here. The document from [...]
The founder of the Grameen Bank (http://www.grameen-info.org/) Muhammad Yunus was given a Nobel Prize today (read about it here). i knew this guy was doing something right.
lou dobbs’ opinion article on wednesday in CNN is pathetic (read it here). christ, is this what passes for journalism these days? fuck, i hope so. better this bullshit be journalism rather than activism, which seems even more dead than the Geneva Conventions. Is this guy fucking serious? “we should all go out and change [...]
from a conversation i had with my conservative republican boss in reference to this Rep Foley scandal: him: i tell ya one thing i like about you liberals. me: oh yeah, what’s that? him: at least you admit that people are flawed fucking creatures. me: that we do. him: the thing is is that you [...]