Chris Murphy has put out what is probably the most positive, optimistic political ad I’ve seen in recent memory. It’s bold in that includes him sitting in front of one of his opponent, Nancy Johnson, many attack ads.
I met Chris yesterday and he’s the real deal. He is the embodiment of how change can come […]

Spazeboy tells all in a story fit for prime-time (or at least Colin McEnroe’s radio show today around 5:30 PM on 1080 AM):
It’s one thing to tell me I’m not welcome, it’s quite another to actually steal something from me. I insisted on getting the ticket back, but I had walked right into a childish […]

Today was supposed to be Joe’s big day to bask in the warm glow of endorsements from Bill “Big Dog” Clinton and the diminutive Barbara Boxer. Instead the only warmth Joe felt was from the meaty proximity of his LieberThugs who were sure to keep the voices of dissent far away from the increasingly thin-skinned […]

DMIBlog has a slew of shocking stats about economic disparities in America.  With so little discourse going on about the state of America’s middle and lower class under the Bush administration, the Drum Major Institute is a great resource for the economic lowdown in real, lived terms.
-People who, according to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial […]

Well, duh.
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
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“We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be […]

The New York Times Magazine has a large article covering China’s internet, Google’s relationship with China, and the odd ways in which censorship has evolved behind the Great Firewall of China. The article starts with a critical look at Google’s January 2006 launch of the self-censoring version of its search engine on google.cn.
Yet Google’s conduct […]

Yahoo has provided China with evidence that helped them convict a Yahoo email user, Jiang Lijun. Here’s some info and there is an action you can do below!
Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy […]

I am inclined to believe the legions of scientists who testify to the need for Al Gore’s mounting campaign to address the human causes of global warming. I am inclined to believe that Gore hasn’t been championing this cause for two decades for anything but sincere reasons. I am inclined to believe that […]

I got this from Fat Lady Sings who got this from RedBeard at Vague Nihilism. I’m posting this to broaden its reach.
While you have to be very naive to believe that our access to cheap goods isn’t enabled by awful labor conditions around the world, I’m not sure it’s possible to prepare yourself for the […]