Politics
Mobile will eat the branch
Where mobile money accounts outnumber bank accounts and where they will:
Ferguson Elsewhere
Max Fisher, writing for Vox, covers Ferguson as if it happened in another country:
Motives
Lately I’ve been mentally summing up the healthcare argument like this:
The Obama Code
George Lakoff on The Obama Code:
I Approve This Message
The Bradley Effect
The Bradley Effect and psychological priming:
Push Poll
Old
Five Towns
The political zeitgeist of Main Street, USA:
Sojourner
Floaters, third-culture kids, sojourners.
Google Analytics Pwns
Barack Obama is Your New Fixie got noticed this week.
Prop 98 Kills Kittens
Fine California astroturfing:
Obama
Zogby is polling Obama over Clinton in California and elsewhere, contrasting with other pollsters.
Afghanistan, Internet = Death
From the appallingly-fucked-up dept: Student sentenced to death for using the internet.
Clay Davis 2008!
Er, now that Edwards is gone, and the Republican race is less murky, the frontrunners are playing nice—aiming their respective barbs at the GOP instead of each
Can Has Permission?
Two things have been smacking me over the head on my visit to Her Majesty’s shores.
Crops for Green
Trio of biofuel articles this morning:
War
It hit me sometime after walking into a deserted replica of a midcentury military cafeteria, between handling a modern automatic rifle and its ancestor from
Murakami, Upset, Electro, Lit
Clinton upsets in NH.
Good Times in New Hampshire
Exit poll links, the New York Times politics blog, the ever-excellent electoral-vote.com, and Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco
Gavin had 12x the votes of 2nd place, prop A passed and prop H sputtered out.
Dear Lazypol
Since I know you’re voting today, here are some tricksy links to a few local papers and organizations endorsements:
9/11 Is Over - New York Times
Update: Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages
Verizon Blocks Messages of Abortion Rights Group
Why Net Neutrality is Important
Ganked from Digg: http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Why_net_neutrality_is_important_pic
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Chronicle Article on Healthcare in the US
Article on the front page of the Chronicle today:
The Case for Universal Healthcare
When was the last time you saw a mass organized protest against Social Security or Medicare?
About Time
House set to pass voting bill that fixes many, but not all problems with electronic voting systems.
Shrubenomics
Gut the estate tax?
Best. Video. Evar.
It just gets better and better…
November Past & Future
This is heartening.
Feingold Brings It
Senator Russ Feingold finally came out and said it.