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SYNECDOCHE, PARS PRO TOTO
12.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

“An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars on October 8, 2010 in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.” via the Boston Globe

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DEVIL YOU KNOW?
11.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

New Quinnipiac polling has ole Romney over Obama by an statistically insignificant %1 in the ’12 election, if he can make it passed the convention. Palin came up short in the same poll. That I find this incredibly relieving is firm testament to the kind of banana-cakes with which Palin would flood the executive in [...]

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information policy, polity pow-wows
Nailed it
10.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

‎”Tools are what make us human. If you want to be truly human, you need control over your tools.” – Tim Wu (Columbia Law) on the existential imperative of building open networks and devices.

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I know it’s been five months. But, still, awesome.
05.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 | 3 Comments

There’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 [...]

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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!!”
09.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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
03.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Wait for it….
01.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 | 3 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. But she wasn’t [...]

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