Another Dead Canary

Change.org launched its redesigned Web site this week. I never spent too much time on their old site, so I can’t really compare the before and after. However, what I’ve seen of the after is pretty encouraging. I’m not quite sure how many more social networks I can maintain without suffering serious overload but I’m [...]

For me, the crystal-clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain came down to one moment in Tuesday night’s debate — when Tom Brokaw asked the candidates to rank their priorities between health care, energy and reform of the social security and medicare systems. McCain played it down the middle, saying all three issues were [...]

Keith Olberman at his best. He goes to town on Palin. Does Sara Palin really want to go there? Does she really want to throw stones when it comes to someone’s association with seditionists and religious nut jobbers? She’s got a domestic terrorist and witch doctor of her own in her closet, as Olberman so [...]

Now it gets exciting. Sources in John McCain’s camp spent the last several days telling reporters that the campaign was about to go hard negative against Barack Obama on the character issue. It was the best way, they said, to move the national discussion off of the economy. And true to their word, VP candidate [...]

So which John McCain story line do you believe? The carefully crafted legend about the hero whose character and convictions were forged in the fires of hell, a tale perpetuated in today’s Washington Post story by Michael Dobbs? Or the narrative spun in Tim Dickinson’s Rolling Stone piece that questions McCain’s bravery, his honesty and [...]

Well, Congress passed the bailout bill and President Bush quickly signed it but not before lawmakers loaded it with corporate handouts stuffed into the bill at the behest of lobbyists for the banking industry. It looks like Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is already rewarding several of his old buddies at Goldman Sachs with jobs overseeing [...]

My friend and I have a standing zombie plan, which includes a predetermined rendezvous point at the end of the Metro system’s red line. That’s where, according to our plan, we’ll recover our cache of weapons, food and other survival supplies. We drew up an “end of the world” zombie plan over beers and herbal [...]