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Saturday, Aug 28, 2004

chock to the gills

i guess i can try the rheingold swill. i hope their politics match their ads. plus they were the ny mets beer sponsors before schaefer before budweiser. id slag fresh direct but i just got an order this morning.

via rheingold beer


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truth out (of the way)

i know nobody reads eschaton so ill post this here, too. bob dole only lies while the red light over the camera is blinking, then its back to reality. tv news, a dumb show for idiots.

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blame eloise

in case you havent seen it, heres the plaza hotel banner aloft.

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che's us

moore guevara tees

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iran to get you

this (iran, israel, feith) must have been the big story josh marshall was barking about a few months ago.

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aipac of thieves

juan cole delves deep into the israeli spy at the defense department story. jeez, i would hate to see anyone held accountable for this. maybe if there was a purple heart involved.

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Friday, Aug 27, 2004

convention

"That brings us back to 1940, and the convention that had it all--the five days in Philadelphia during which the Republicans took six ballots to select a candidate. Not only was the convention exciting, but the stakes were also high: Would this country keep its head in the sands of isolationism, or would it face the menace of Adolf Hitler? "

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its rainesing again

"I was not the first, nor will I be the last writer to break his pick on that stone. But in reviewing what I wrote in 1982 after two years of close observation of Reagan on the campaign trail and in the White House, I saw a couple of points that seemed worth revisiting as Reagan's self-appointed heir seeks a second term. I characterised Reagan as a "political primitive" who valued "beliefs over knowledge" based on verifiable facts. The White House spin was that this was a positive in that it represented "rawbone American thinking". I also noted that Reagan had a "high tolerance for ambiguity" as to the outcome of policies that proceeded from such rough-hewn thought.

That strikes me as a different - less troubling - trait than what Brookhiser sees as Bush's refusal to recognise the mere existence of ambiguity. In general, I've come to feel that what we have in George Bush is a shadowy version of Reagan's strengths and an exaggerated version of his intellectual weaknesses."

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vote iv

"A plan to make the presidential battleground of Missouri the first state to allow military voters serving in combat zones such as Iraq to cast their absentee ballots via e-mail is renewing concerns about the security of online voting."

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Thursday, Aug 26, 2004

frame game

"BERKELEY – With the Democratic National Convention over and the Republican one beginning next week, it seemed a good time to check in with George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny of the language of politics has begun to bring him national recognition. The author of the seminal book "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," Lakoff's specialty is dissecting "framing," or the ways in which conservatives and liberals position issues to fit their respective moral worldviews. (For more on framing, read this excerpt from the NewsCenter's October 2003 interview with Lakoff.) He grasps how Republicans use language more effectively than Democrats, and what Democrats can do about it."

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