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Well, some jokesters did and created a fake New York Times website complete with articles.
Headlines include such gems as:
“National Health Insurance Act Passes”
“Nation Sets Its Sites on Building a Sane Economy”
and
“Troops to Return Immediately”
November 13, 2008
By matt carter
After living through sixteen years of two Presidents’ terms, the Baby Boomer generation appears to have run its Presidential course. When Obama, on his way over to Grant Park for his election night event, emailed his millions of plugged-in supporters, he wrote “We just made history.”
As Damien Cave noted:
With that simple “we” in millions [...]
November 12, 2008
By matt carter
From TAPPED:
There’s been lots of discussion during the past week about the future of conservatism. David Brooks and First Read consider the topic today. In short, the GOP can’t continue to appeal primarily to less educated, Southern, rural, and racist voters in an age of increasing education levels, diversity, tolerance, and migration back into [...]
November 11, 2008
By matt carter
Nuclear power production is leaving behind monumental piles of radioactive soil as memorials of the heyday of nuclear power. Way back in the middle of the 20th century when everybody was giddy over nuclear power, the Canadian government set about mining and refining uranium and radium to power its massive nuclear power plants. [...]
November 10, 2008
By matt carter
The biggest political news story of the day:
President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial [...]
November 10, 2008
By matt carter
Liberal economist (and Nobel winner) Paul Krugman states his case that the “center-right nation” meme is a canard:
Did progressives get a mandate from last week’s election? Lots of people would like to claim that they didn’t — that we’re still a “center-right nation.” And one of the assertions you hear to back that claim [...]
November 10, 2008
By matt carter
From Britain’s Guardian, a collection of newspaper front pages from around the world:
November 5, 2008
By matt carter
Sean Quinn of FiveThrityEight.com sums up what a lot of us are feeling today:
I’ll be honest, it’s a little hard to write today. I suspect a lot of you may be feeling the same complex set of emotions at the end of a political season so seismic that most of us will remember [...]
November 5, 2008
By matt carter
An email to Obama supporters:
Matthew —
I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.
We just made history.
And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.
You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you [...]
November 5, 2008
By matt carter
Obama wins the Presidency of the United States of America!
November 4, 2008
By matt carter
Will undecideds break largely for McCain?
It’s what Republican pollsters have been saying the last few weeks, and seems to be what Chuck Todd at NBC thinks as well. The net effect would be that Obama’s share of the vote is what current polling pegs it at, while McCain would scoop up the [...]
October 30, 2008
By matt carter
Of course. We’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but Exxon Mobil still pumps out the dough:
Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, surging past analyst estimates.
Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500), the leading U.S. oil company, said its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion, or [...]
October 30, 2008
By matt carter
Looking at the first screenshots and description of Windows 7 reaffirms my commitment to the Mac platform. On the bright side, the latest version of Windows is starting to look a lot like old versions of OS X. Of course, the marketing hype is out in full-force:
These UI changes represent a brave move [...]
October 29, 2008
By matt carter
An interesting crime-reduction strategy using Jesus’ feeding of the 5000 to draw attention to youth violence.
A Pittsburgh-area detective is hoping 5,000 loaves and 5,000 fish will help curb youth violence in the city and its suburbs.
October 29, 2008
By matt carter
A group of scientists has published a report stating that the FDA was wrong to assert that the common chemical in plastics is harmless. BPA, according to the report,
From can affect brain and behavioral development in infants and kids.
The Food and Drug Administration ignored scientific evidence and used flawed methods when it determined [...]
October 29, 2008
By matt carter
