Learning from Yankee-bashing

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Sunday October 08, 2006 · 10:55 AM PDT

2006/10/08 · 10:55

Progressive and Democratic political theorists, full of ideas for how the Democratic party can recapture the votes they need to become once again the dominant party, should really take a pause right now and look around the blogosphere and the mainstream media at the general response to the Yankees being eliminated from the baseball playoffs. Except from die-hard Yankee fans like myself, what they'll see is an awful lot of outright hatred for the Yankees, some of which can be explained by the team's exemplary past winning record, and some by the people's natural inclination to root against the overdog, but a good portion of which is simply raw unchecked emotion. Read More

Strike? Strike!

Ed Fitzgerald

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Wednesday September 20, 2006 · 10:00 PM PDT

2006/09/20 · 22:00

Things have reached rock-bottom, perhaps, since the rumors that the government of the United States is considering an unprovoked first-strike nuclear attack against Iran can't be dismissed out of hand, especially since "national defense assests" have been alerted in a way that makes it appear that an attack on Iran is (perhaps) imminent. There seems to be some doubt whether there could actually be "plausible deniability" about such an attack, but there's not doubting that such thinking has been typical of the way the Bush Administration has gone about doing things. Read More

A collection of quotes for the 4th

Ed Fitzgerald

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 11:14 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 11:14

Here's a collection of quotes to ponder as we celebrate Independence Day.

These were a people who believed they were God's chosen, and looking about them, there was every reason that they should so believe. Their waters teemed with fish and their forests with game; there was absolutely nothing to prevent them fulfilling their vision of a new Jerusalem, and they set out with immense vitality to do so, and their successes for two hundred years has been one of the wonders of the modern world. This in spite of occasional wrong-turning and backsliding, and Americans, no matter how aware some of them are - and some of them are not - of their own shortcomings, remain the envy of the rest of the world.

James L. Stokesbury
A Short History of the American Revolution (1991)

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Bush is still down (Feb SUSA results)

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Friday February 17, 2006 · 2:06 PM PST

2006/02/17 · 14:06

The latest Survey USA 50-state poll of Bush's approval ratings is out. As Taegan Goddard reports, in 40 out of 50 states Bush's numbers are now below 50%.

A map I made of the data is below the fold.

Ed Fitzgerald

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Saturday February 11, 2006 · 8:01 PM PST

2006/02/11 · 20:01

There's an article on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Business section which reports that a cancer researcer in Italy found after a seven-year study that the artificial sweetner aspartame (Nutra-Sweet or Equal) may be carcinogenic. Read More

Governors vs. Senators

Ed Fitzgerald

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 10:52 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 22:52

Like many of you, I dropped by Daily Kos to vote in the latest Presidential preference straw poll (to vote for Clark, as it happens), but I also left a comment there which included a pointer to an analysis posted on my weblog in January 2004, which concluded from the historical record that governors have a much better chance of being elected President than do senators. Read More

Rockefeller blew it

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 7:34 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 19:34

I don't understand what it means when I read that Sen. Rockefeller wasn't allowed to discuss the meager information on the warrantless wiretapping program given to him by the Bush administration. Read More

Election shenanigans in my home town

Ed Fitzgerald

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Friday November 11, 2005 · 10:59 AM PST

2005/11/11 · 10:59

I don't really keep up on the goings on in my home town of Irvington, New York, so it was a real surprise to me, when I just happened to look it up on Wikipedia, to read about this: Read More

ID defined

Ed Fitzgerald

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Tuesday November 08, 2005 · 12:16 AM PST

2005/11/08 · 00:16

Thinking about it, when you combine together the testimony of the defense's expert witnesses in the Dover "intelligent design" trial, what you get is a pretty weak statement, one that runs something like this: Read More

Grocery chain pulls "17" magazine

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 5:43 PM PST

2005/11/03 · 17:43

Sometimes (well, to be truthful, in these days, many times) I despair about this country:

This month, the following things were readily available to any teenage girl who stepped into an Albertsons store: at least four brands of condoms. A recent Men's Health magazine article called, "Six Secret Ways to Turn Her On." Cosmopolitan's tips on how to make your own sex video.
Unavailable in any of Albertsons' 2,500 locations was the October issue of Seventeen Magazine.
The grocery chain pulled that issue from shelves earlier this month. The reason? An article on women's anatomy.

Ed Fitzgerald

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Monday October 31, 2005 · 9:30 PM PST

2005/10/31 · 21:30

I've been musing a bit lately on the difference between an accumulation of facts and a theory which explains those facts and provides a framework for them. This musing was brought on by my continuing to follow the Dover, Pennsylvania "intelligent design" trial. (See the sidebar on my website for links related to Kitzmiller v Dover.) Read More

Bush slippage showing

Ed Fitzgerald

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 10:41 PM PDT

2005/10/18 · 22:41

I thought it would be interesting to look at the SUSA Bush approval numbers in terms of Bush's slippage from the 2004 election to now, so I took Bush's state by state 2004 election results, subtracted the current poll results (Bush's approval rating) and graphed the results: Read More

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Learning from Yankee-bashing

Strike? Strike!

A collection of quotes for the 4th

Bush is still down (Feb SUSA results)

Did Rumsfeld sugar the FDA?

Governors vs. Senators

Rockefeller blew it

Election shenanigans in my home town

ID defined

Grocery chain pulls "17" magazine

Building castles in the air

Bush slippage showing