To my colleagues in the Senate, my constituents in Nevada, and the American People,
It is with great sadness that I tender my resignation from the United States Senate today. Despite my soft-spoken, semi-effective attacks on this Administration and his Republican allies, it appears that I simply don’t have what it takes to win. […]

“Economic assistance” has become the term of the week. Since the diplomatic quartet of world powers began to consider how to use their financial aid to the Palestinians as a bargaining chip in dealing with Hamas, the term has been so bandied about in the media it’s easy to lose sight of the implications of […]

Reports from Condoleeza Rice’s meetings in London show that the Bush administration is, so far, acting responsibly in its stance on Hamas’ recent electoral victory. Public statements have been measured; Rice is calling on Hamas to recognize Israel and disarm while making an effort to avoid prejudging the party’s behavior.
By being careful not to back […]

Thanks to the amazing Amos, you can now replace the Google logo with our own jammed version (courtesy of Free Range).

Here’s the step-by-step:
1) Make sure you have the latest Firefox web browser
2) Install the Grease Monkey extension (make sure to restart Firefox after you do!)
3) Install the “Evil Google Logo” greasemonkey script (Go to the […]

Check out Mark Fiore’s flash movie on the latest and greatest worst hit from Google (and Yahoo and Microsoft) in their work for the Chinese government: iRepress!

Via a Kos open thread:
So true. The power of the cartoon at it’s highest.

The Baltimore Group is going to Mad Lib the State of the Union!
Huh?
You remember Mad Libs, right? Someone asks you for parts of speech, which they enter into a story full of blanks. At the end they read the story back to you and it’s all mixed up and hilarious. Still don’t get […]

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill […]

Jerome over at MyDD makes an interesting point:
I came across a interesting quote today. It came from the coverage of the anti-abortion protesters, where Bush was quoted as saying (1,2):

“By changing laws we can change our culture.”
“We’re working to persuade more of our fellow Americans of the rightness of our cause.”

And while outlining for […]

There has been a massive outcry against Google’s unethical partnership with the Chinese government. People around the world, online and off, are shocked that a company claiming to be for the free flow of information and operating while not doing evil would hypocritically
push Chinese propaganda and censor the truth. Over 15,000 letters have been sent […]