Archive for November 6th, 2006
midterm webpower
When people talk about the power of the internet to transform the American political process, they usually point to the fundraising success of sites like moveon.org or to the enormous support generated online for Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential primaries. This election season a perfect storm of technological and political factors have developed [...]
zippity do-da
The George Allen versus Jim Webb Senate race in Virginia is as close and dirty as they come. The up-side is that Republican Allen’s bungles— his “macaca” references, his quoting Webb’s war novels out of context, his hired goons beating up bloggers— have generated some hilarious Web material, like this old crackup at ridiculopathy.com and [...]
Dumpster Dining
Dumpster food-refuse isn’t all totally gross. Couldn’t we, like, cook it up and serve it to people? How American is that!
can’t stop, won’t stop
Election Day tomorrow and people are seriously ready to bring this rattling ride of a democracy into the shop! Maybe you’ve heard about this CIRCLE research. Maybe you’ve even read the report. Or maybe you know about it because you’re living it! The CIRCLE study says that 15-25-year-old Americans are politically engaged kinda people— that [...]
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