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Politics

Berlusconi Pizza with Reindeer

December 7, 2009 Finland

Finnish humor at its best.
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was famously quoted as saying he had to “endure” Finnish food during a visit several years ago. So it certainly amused me when I found out that the a Finnish pizza chain has named one of their pizzas in his honor.
Thumbing their noses squarely at Berlusconi, this [...]

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Barack Obama’s Facebook Page

April 30, 2009 Politics

This is really well done. In honor of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, Slate has mocked up a parody of his Facebook page.
Remember, What will Facebook look like in 40 years?

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Is this the new Obama phone?

January 23, 2009 Mobile

CNN wonders if the Barak Obama’s new phone is the Sectéra® Edge™
(love the multiple super-scripts in the product name!) by General Dynamics. Features include a “classified key” that you flip when you want to jump on the Top Sekret network for calls, email, or browsing.
Click on the image above and check out the one-line [...]

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Religion and Politics

November 4, 2008 Politics

Wow, and I thought California’s Proposition 8 was a bad idea, check out what folks here in Colorado have to vote on in Proposition 48.

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Election Day

November 4, 2008 Current Events

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I’m traveling today so I mailed in my absentee ballot weeks ago. Without a real pin, I’ll sport a virtual one.

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Thomas Jefferson on the Credit Crisis

October 24, 2008 Current Events

I leave you with this quote to ponder over the weekend.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the [...]

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Trouble Tickets for City Hall – SeeClickFix

August 28, 2008 Community

SeeClickFix lets people assign Help Tickets to their local neighborhood. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this one. On the one hand, it’s nice to see that there’s an easy way for citizens to get involved and if we all keep our eyes open for things like burnt out street lamps and broken [...]

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Lawrence Lessig and Change Congress

February 20, 2008 Politics

Exciting times. Show your support at lessig08.org

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Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is 26

January 30, 2008 Politics

I missed this write-up on Jon Favreau, Barack’s head speechwriter, in the New York Times Fashion section last week. He first started writing for Obama when he met him during John Kerry’s campaign back in 2004.
Life was relatively quiet then, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Favreau had some time to hang out. When Mr. Obama’s [...]

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