Russian aggression is mercurial — itβs getting harder to tell anymore who is being paid to push pro-Russian messages, and who has just been sadly taken in by them. For all this braggadocio (braggadocious, even!) about βbuilding a wallβ to keep supposed Mexican rapists out (although net migration has been falling with our southern neighbor for […]
Republicans do not live up to their ideals of small government (and also, we need Keynesianism right now)
Regardless of whether or not you agree that slashing spending, fiscal austerity, balanced budgets, and a low federal deficit are good ideas, the fact remains that the Republican Party does not generally live up to its aims of expense reduction and small government. As hard as it is to believe, there are still some people […]
SOTU word cloud: Make work, America. Obama OUT!
Some of the more interesting bits From Obama‘s State of the Union speech, 2015: President Obamaβs tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns β Boing Boing. p.s. cool visualization of Twitter mentions during the speech (via srogers @ cartodb)