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polity pow-wows
I know it’s been five months. But, still, awesome.
On WH wall is a photo of Obama bent over as an African American boy touches his head. Boy had asked if the president’s hair really felt like his.
[via John Dickerson]
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information policy, polity pow-wows
OMG Obama was on Twitter, Part II: The Governance
02.23.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThere’s been recurrent discussion of the tech-savvy of Obama’s campaign and transition team. An early legislative manifestation of this tuned-in-ness appears in the “implementation instructions” of last week’s stimulus bill. The instructions mandate that agencies report the specific allocation of funds in a feed.
“For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block [...] -
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Procedural Democracy
02.10.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments“As best I can tell, this is pretty much the legislative process in a nutshell: coming up with extensive, convoluted rules for everything and then discovering extensive, convoluted ways of getting around them.“
via Benji’s Ochlocratic Osculation
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mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
“Who-rah Virginyah!!”
or,”I’m spooked and confused by systemic financial instability but at least BO has stronger positives there.”
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Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy, mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
We have a winner: LeRoy E. Myers
Ted Stevens honorary Lawmaker of the Week Award: LeRoy E. Myers, Jr, Maryland House of Delegates, District 1C
Open Curtain: LeRoy sits down in his bedroom to watch several torporous hours of old M*A*S*H episodes on YouTube before slipping into an empty vastness of sleep. We watch as he heaves a familiar end-of-the-day sigh, kicks off [...] -
polity pow-wows
Wait for it….
Something really special happens at some point in this :30 clip.
Can you spot it? Does it seem as out-of-nowhere to you as it did to me? Do these announcers just point at a random word from the ‘Times front and SHOUT IT?
“Odom to Bryant and..STIMULUS PLAN!!!!“
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A cliche rant for a dude to have
01.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments* When I wrote the following I was pretty darn frustrated at all the circumstances surrounding Obama’s close second in NH. I’m still uncertain about some of the assumptions embedded below, but It felt good to get it out. So here it is …
A lady ‘found her voice’ and got emotional.
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My Orange Crush
12.24.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWith Putin all up in the news cycle, I could not help but vaguely reminisce that about time a couple of years ago when he slithered down a chimney and dosed that Ukranian guy’s vodka with ugly-powder. Remember that? Sorta? Same here, and the revisitation is interesting enough that I dug around a bit and [...]
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Brit Hume, it’s sad that you’re the most legitimate voice on a major news network.
11.23.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments*Latent rant brought to you by Fox News Porn
Maybe I’m just seeing what I want to, but is the older generation of newsfolks - you know, the ones who understood that journalism’s function is only partially to entertain - just dryly reading the cards and waiting to retire?
Two years ago Rather demonstrated [...]
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