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Imagine a Progressive United States
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”
The last swing of the boom
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 [...]
Quote of the Day — 10/27/08
What I’ve found is people here [in Pittsburgh] don’t care what color you are. What they’re trying to figure out is who can deliver. It’s just like the Pttisburgh Steelers: they don’t care what color you are, they just want to figure out, can you make the plays?
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama From on KDKA 10/27/08
Abortion and Catholic History
It’s true that contemporary theology about abortion is relatively recent in history, a point that Senator Joe Biden has been making with increasing frequency lately. Dr. Frank Flinn, adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author if the Encyclopedia of Catholicism, agrees:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden [...]
Stock Photography World Shake-Up
Corbis will now offer cut the royalty rate for its shooters and Getty has now consumed Jupiter Images. Tough times for stock shooters these days.
Moment of Truth
John Moody, Executive VP of Fox News and Pittsburgh-native, writes what I think is the definitive take on Ashley Todd’s account of alleged political violence.
We know know that she has confessed to making the whole story up and forever done her candidate of choice a great deal of harm.
Less than two weeks before [...]
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism
This speech is worth your 7 minutes.
Quote of the Day 9/24/2008
“You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves… “hat are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!
– David Letterman, criticizing Senator John McCain
Quote of the Day 9/21/08
It is no stretch to say that after this week, the era of big government is back. To counter the most severe financial crisis since the great Depression, the federal government has become the world’s biggest insurance company. … This series of moves has put a stunning number of taxpayer dollars at risk — more [...]
Contemporary-art sales
From The Economist:
Damien Hirst and the future of auction houses
“AUCTION rooms are democratic”, Damien Hirst told The Economist just before the two-day sale of 223 of his new works at Sotheby’s London branch last week. “That’s what I like about them. Anyone with enough money can buy what they want—immediately. They just have to [...]
