And now…make-up sex: After 140 years of sleeping on the couch in Black America, the House of Representatives has issued a formal apology for “the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society,” NPR reports.  As the Washington Post points out, though, [...]

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KEENE, N.H.— “Change” has trumped all of the other 2008 campaign buzz-words— words like “experience” “trust” “reliability.” It has come to dominate the rhetoric on the campaign trail and conversations across party lines. It was “change” that catapulted Obama to victory in Iowa, pushed Edwards into a second-place finish and edged its way into Hillary’s [...]

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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards showed up at the Writers Guild of America strike yesterday at NBC studios in Burbank. He walked the picket line and then gave a brief shout out to the writers and to union members across industries in every part of the country. Unions are a bulwark against the corporate take [...]

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This exchange on evil Washington lobbyists and the corruption of the democratic process took place at the Kos convention this past weekend. Maybe it was the setting and the audience of bloggers, maybe it’s because the candidates are increasingly embracing a new, more real, blog-influenced form of campaigning… whatever it was, this exchange has the [...]

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There’s an adage that advises against mixing friends and money… but it must have been formulated before a presidential candidate could gain hundreds of thousands of virtual friends on the web, each with their own credit card.
The New York Times reported this week that Democratic presidential candidates have had more success than their Republican counterparts [...]

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So some computer geeks have made a campaign headquarters for John Edwards in Second Life, the virtual expanding multi-player transnational web game. And okay, we get Wonkette’s point— that Second Life is different and no substitute for “first life.” But she goes at it hard. Second Life, she says, is an “online role-playing dorkfest” [...]

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