Monthly Archives: May 2008

Bush likens 64% of Israelis to Nazi appeasers

by Chris   –   May 16, 2008

President George W. Bush addressing the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday, May 15, 2008:
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into [...]

Bush even lied about giving up golf

by Chris   –   May 15, 2008

Special Comment from Keith Olbermann:
Special Comment from Keith Olbermann Video
My favorite quotes:
On Iraqi WMD
You [Bush] should build a great statue of yourself turning a deaf ear to the warnings of realists, while you are shown embracing the three-card monte dealers like Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
That would be a far more fitting [...]

And no one cared

by Chris   –   May 14, 2008

I’m gonna try to bring back the amateur cartoons that everyone enjoyed from the old site. Enjoy

Why America? Why? (Chart fun)

by Chris   –   May 13, 2008

I’m not sure what conclusion, if any, to draw from this juxtaposition of data (it’s just fun to make bar charts). But I think it just might be a sign of the apocalypse. Keep an eye out for the other two horsemen.

Iron Man product placement goes too far

by Chris   –   May 12, 2008

I saw the new Iron Man this last weekend. I thought it was a pretty good movie. It wasn’t spectacular, but it was satisfying for a summer action flick.
I don’t have many complaints about Iron Man, but there was one scene that really bothered me and ruined my sense of immersion.
***Extremely minor spoiler to follow*** [...]

Proof that the media pushes the drama

by Chris   –   May 9, 2008

After reading that headline, I know what you’re probably thinking. We already have plenty of empirical evidence that the media loves drama. The balance between news and noise is so skewed that in 2006 half of the U.S. still thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That’s three years after the war started, and a [...]

Oil prices rising like woah

by Chris   –   May 8, 2008

$200 a barrel oil?
That’ll make gas what? Like a million dollars a gallon (I’m guessing).
I think I’m going to have to get another job or a better one just to afford to go to work.
But on the plus side, this problem has spawned awesome infographics from the Economist:

Obama dominates NC, Clinton barely wins IN

by Chris   –   May 7, 2008

According to MSNBC, Obama has defeated Clinton by 14 percent in North Carolina, a race called as soon as the polls closed.
Clinton’s narrow win in Indiana wasn’t certain until after 1 am—7 hours after the polls closed—where it now looks like she will have won by 2 percent.
My initial thoughts
The idea that the Rev. Wright [...]

The Gas Tax Holiday: An Election Day 'Issue'

by Chris   –   May 6, 2008

On this website, I’ve complained multiple times about the substance free coverage of the 2008 presidential battle. Finally, in the last few days leading up to today’s Democratic Primary vote in Indiana and North Carolina, we’re talking about an actual policy issue!
Sort of.
Hillary Clinton has followed John McCain’s lead, and proposed a gas tax holiday [...]

McCain and the 100 year occupation: Revisited

by Chris   –   May 5, 2008

Check out the original John “100 Years in Iraq” McCain post (with video) on this subject.
Back in early January, Republican presidential nominee John McCain made it clear he would like to have troops in Iraq for 100 years. He later backed down from that crazy position and expressed a more realistic desire to keep our [...]