PALINESQUE POLITICS!
- Executive Experience and More on “Executive” Experience – Having “executive experience” is a lot more (and a lot less) than serving in office in an executive branch. Obama’s demonstrated executive ability in this very campaign, something I’ve yet to see from Palin’s track record (hiring of lobbyists aside).
- Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process… – Speaking of executive decision-making, the way McCain appears to have handled the whole process — the first decision he gets to make as a proto-president — demonstrates a lack of planning, rash decision-making, and shoot-first-questions-later style of leadership that … is not quite what I think we need today.
- Borderline – More obvious sources unexamined before the decision was made.
- ABC News Confirms That McCain’s VP Pick Was AIP Member – But remember, John McCain is for America, first!
- Atheists’ Worst Nightmares: Sarah Palin, Bananas – It’s so amusing to hear conservative women’s groups slam traditional feminist groups over the Palin nomination, when without the feminists of the 60s and 70s and beyond Palin wouldn’t have made it past being a beauty pageant winner.
- George Lakoff: The Palin Choice and the Reality of… – Does the Palin decision make a difference? “Yes, the McCain-Palin ticket is weak on the major realities. But it is strong on the symbolic dimension of politics that Republicans are so good at marketing. Just arguing the realities, the issues, the hard truths should be enough in times this bad, but the political mind and its response to symbolism cannot be ignored. The initial Democratic response to Palin — the response based on realities alone — indicates that many Democrats have not learned the lessons of the Reagan and Bush years.”
POLITICS SANS PALIN!
- Report: Gonzales Mishandled Classified Data – washingtonpost.com – Speaking of knee-jerk selections of incompetents with insufficient vetting, no surprise here that not only did Gonzales not keep highly classified data under proper security (i.e., something beyond sitting in his unlocked brief case at home), he couldn’t remember the combo to his house safe.
- Protests in Minneapolis [The Corpus Callosum] – Because if you call them “terrorists,” you can do whatever you want, right?
NO POLITICS!
- Study Links Gene Variant in Men to Marital Discord… – Genes aren’t destiny … but they can certainly give a behavior nudge.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – A quote for today on tolerance.
- Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, The: Warner Issues… – Hawkman, Bird Man … what’s the diff, y’know? I mean, they’re both, like, comic book guys with feathers.
- A fresh take on the browser and Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project: Do we really need another browser out there? I remain in love with Firefox — but I’m damned tempted to see what Google’s up to with Chrome.
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