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As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News.
Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number [...]

There is a lot of federal spending that is either ineffective or so inefficient that the money should stay in the federal coffers.  That does not apply to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  In fact, the first four syllable word I knew as a child was Corporation because of the credit that appeared at the [...]

I decided to take a quick break from cooking Thanksgiving dinner to remind people to get out and vote for this years Falsies.
The Center for Media and Democracy releases an end of year list of the "most heinous polluters of the information environment over the past year".  These are people who take spin and propaganda [...]

This week has been busy and I haven’t had as much time to write as I had hoped, but I do have time for one more post on the "Biggest Obstacles to Electing the Right President" project.
Earlier this week I wrote about how political news is produced and consumed more like entertainment coverage and gossip [...]

The 2008 Presidential election will be one year from this week. To commemorate this, Tiffany and Alan have suggested blogging about the obstacles in the way of electing a good candidate for president. The suggested topic is exceptionally broad so I am going to narrow my focus down to the obstacles that individual [...]