Not the world’s most scientific poll, but interesting nonetheless.
June 29, 2008
June 27, 2008
On Hillary supporters vowing to vote for McCain
“The Hillary people who say they’re for McCain, I guess they remind me of the Perot voters who never voted before and never will again,” says Mr. Klein, referring to the independent candidacy of Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. “They’re not very political. Hopefully, the Democratic advertising and marketing will work by November, and they’ll realize they don’t want to vote for McCain.”
(from this article at CSMonitor.com)
Billion-Dollar Babies, by Nick Turse [TomDispatch]
Billion-dollar babies refers to the companies that take at least that amount annually from the Pentagon’s budget:
. . . these five stealth corporations from the military-corporate complex received more than $8.9 billion in taxpayer dollars in 2007. To put this into perspective, that sum is almost $2 billion more than the Bush administration’s proposed 2009 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency. Put another way, it’s about nine times what one-sixth of the world’s population spent on food last year.
If this doesn’t infuriate you into voting, nothing will.
Strange bedfellows? Not when Angelina Jolie is on the case!
A review of Wanted:
Wanted . . . is like a John Woo remake of Falling Down, the story of a shlubby white-collar worker who finally, violently, breaks free.
On the reinvention of Microsoft [The Economist]
Bill Gates steps down at Microsoft. The Economist describes in its singularly hilarious way all the “good” things Microsoft brought us, and notes that MS hasn’t fared so well online:
Watching Microsoft in the company of Google and Facebook is a bit like watching your dad trying to be cool.
The politics of hip-hop [The Economist]
Signs of the apocalype: The Economist asks, “Can rap save the world?”
June 17, 2008
This ought to give you pause about the major news outlets
from Truthout.org… Tom Englehardt in TomDispatch.com writes about those funny places in Iraq that you never see on TV–the huge bases where our troops sleep, eat, and prepare:
It has been, for instance, a commonplace of these years to see a TV correspondent reporting on the situation in Iraq, or what the American military had to say about Iraq, from Baghdad’s enormous Camp Victory. And yet, if you think about it, that camera, photographing ABC’s fine reporter Martha Raddatz or other reporters on similar stop-overs, never pans across the base itself. You don’t even get a glimpse, unless you have access to homemade G.I. videos or Pentagon-produced propaganda.
Marc Bowden on Rupert Murdoch
Those of who you’ve read (or watched) Blackhawk Down know Mark Bowden’s work. His latest subject is Murdoch’s recent acquisition of The Wall Street Journal.
