Manipulating the Information Age

Billy Beck, talking about Jenna:

  My current conclusion: I have no real way of knowing what happened down there.

In “the Information Age,” that’s a very remarkable fact.

Don’t be so surprised.  Once people become dependent on “information” wasn’t the

—  WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson.  In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

Well,

Well, now… no WONDER Foer was keeping so silent.

Michelle says it very well indeed:

I repeat Ace’s distillation for those who have only superficial knowledge of this scandal: Remember: TNR Hid The Existence Of This Phone Call From The

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

If you’re the president, do you visit southern California under these circumstances?  Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters points out that President Bush’s going, at least as far as we know right now, but points out that no matter what happens,

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

I’ve put up with about as much from Ron Paul supporters as I’m going to.  I’ve created a special spam bucket, with a special filter just for you clowns.  3/4 of which I don’t even see and none of it

James Joyner: (Link repaired)

Reason‘s Dave Weigel takes to the pages of The American Conservative to warn Republicans that they’re not going to win in 2008 simply by bashing Hillary Clinton.

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While negative campaigning and pointing out the

Usually, I just ignore this kind of garbage.  But this one, no… I can’t do it.

TPM says

In Shirley MacLaine’s new book, the actress and longtime friend of Dennis Kucinich makes an interesting claim: During a visit to her

See Michelle for the rest of the story.

Addendum: (Bit) Yes, well, I wouldn’t be too overly concerned about Stark keeping his word about being sorry and henceforth keeping his mouth shut.  We already have a pretty fair example of

Bit wrote the following yesterday while discussing the Canadian conservative upswing.

Oh, by the way, there’s been an awful lot of chatter, lately, as regards the Canadian dollar coming up somewhat higher than the American dollar just recently.  Of

Here is an interesting story that really doesn’t need much in the way of comment.

By SCOTT LINDLAW
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled

LIBERTY —(Houston Chronicle) To Jeremy Burris the word “liberty” was more than the name of his hometown. It was something worth fighting for.An all-American kid from a little all-American town, the 22-year-old Marine lance corporal died heroically in Iraq. More

I’d think if it were but possible to rewrite one’s will after your death, the the Nobel committee would need to find another line of work.  After proving that their peace prize was a sham by awarding to jokers like