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isbushwired.com

October 13, 2004 Politics

The blogosphere is on fire about the strange lump on the back of Bush’s suit during the first debate with detailed video analysis looking for proof that George was channelling Karl Rove via a wireless transmitter. There’s even an entire site dedicated to the debate about the debate which goes into great detail.
Who knows what [...]

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Can there be two “internets”

October 8, 2004 Politics

Watching the second presidential debate and just caught another verbal slip to go with the “mexed missages” post from the first debate.
When questioned about the prospect of a draft, President Bush said, “I hear there are rumors on the internets, that there is going to be a draft for the military.” This is the [...]

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Fear Monger

October 2, 2004 Politics

How do you win an election when you’ve driven up the national debt, sent 90% of the active military into harms way to neutralize weapons that don’t exist, and ostracized yourself from the world community by ignoring them and mis-pronousing the names of their leaders.
Why you scare the bejezus out of the electorate, that’s what!

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Mexed Missages?

September 30, 2004 Politics

Phew! The first presidential debate is over and President Bush grasped to his single flip-flop theme like a mouse to a reed in a stormy sea. Bush kept coming back and accusing Kerry of changing his position on issues, over and over with such regularity that I began to think this was all he [...]

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The Political Bias of Algorithms

September 24, 2004 Google

In a review of the Google and Yahoo news sites in Online Journalism Review, Ethan Zuckerman puts forward a very interesting theory as to why the alternative news sites bubble up to the top of the relevance ranking algorithms at Google News.
“I think what you’re seeing is an odd little linguistic artifact,” said Zuckerman, [...]

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NJ Mother thrown out of Laura Bush Rally

September 17, 2004 New Jersey

Not local news for us anymore but Sue Niederer, a mother who lives up the road from our old house in Pennington, was thrown out from a Laura Bush rally in Hamilton, NJ.
When Bush mentioned the troops abroad, Niederer shouted, “When are yours going to serve?” referring to Bush’s 22-year-old twin daughters, who aren’t in [...]

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North Korean Nukes?

September 11, 2004 Politics

Mushroom Cloud Reported over North Korea – do we have another member of the nuclear club, was it an accident or a test? Or is it just a forest fire?
What disturbs me more than anything in this ever-connected world is that no on knows for sure and this is something that happened on Thursday!

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Balloons

September 9, 2004 Humor

The presidential campaign is not even over but I think they’re right to say that this is the dumbest quote from the 2004 campaign:
“Go, balloons. I don’t see anything happening. Go, balloons. Go, balloons. Go, balloons. Stand by, confetti. Keep coming, balloons. More balloons. Bring them. Balloons, balloons, balloons! More balloons. Tons of them. Bring [...]

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Dancin’ In the Streets

September 2, 2004 Humor

Songwriter for The Grateful Dead and, more recently, The String Cheese Incident, cattle rancher and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is organizing spontaneous outbreaks of senseless dancing in and around the Republican National Convention. It’s become a movement
We just had another brilliant expedition into elephant country. We encountered many of our quarry, converted [...]

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Krugman v. O’Reilly

August 8, 2004 Politics

Caught the tail end of the “gloves come off” debate between Paul Krugman and Bill O’Reilly on CNBC tonight. The sparring melted down to the point of name calling with Krugman, The New York Times Op-Ed columnist dutifully trying to read choice quotes from a transcript of choice O’Reilly quotes while the conservative host from [...]

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