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I think jon has a fever but (a) the thermometer is stuck in centigrade and (b) I can't use any of the java converters on my sidekick.
Can someone tell me what 36.1 c is in farenheit?
Can someone tell me what 36.1 c is in farenheit?
Mar. 23rd, 2004
Politics aside...
Mar. 23rd, 2004 12:40 pm1. This is extremely funny and extremely scary. You can't find me on here, since we haven't given more than $100 to any candidate yet, but you can find a bunch of other people. Including their addresses, which is a little ick. I hope some people have given "work" addresses.
2. I got a phone call last night from ELECTION RESEARCH who do a lot of pollstering for Republican candidates & projects. Among the questions were whether I was voting for Bush (no!), whether I supported the "war" in Iraq (which I found weird, as didn't Bush say the "war" was over like six months ago; anyhow I replied that I supported the troops), whether I described myself as pro-life (no!), whether I supported a constitutional amendment that a marriage is between one man and one woman (no!) and whether I had, in the past year, given money to a philanthropic organization or a church (Christianocentric question, isn't it, but I said yes I'd given to philanthropies). There was also a question about whether I wanted my taxes to go up (yes!) but I really wanted the word-for-word from that one again.
So I called them today after googling them, and asked them to send me a copy of the poll. If I get it, I'm sharing it with a friend who used to work for the Democratic side of the House Justice Committee, and I'll post some of the questions here, too.
3. From today's Salon Magazine:
Jack Kelly, former star reporter at USA Today (also home to last week's really inaccurate article about PoA), has admitted to fabricating extensive sections of many of his articles, including the Jewish settler who riddled a Palestinian taxi with bullets and an Arab youth who wanted to blow up the Sears Tower.
( Fabricated. They never existed. )
But because the memes of his stories have become so ingraned in the US hive mind, and to a large extent the world-mind as well, how will we ever be able to completely separate his lies out from what it is that we think or think we know about the way the world is?
2. I got a phone call last night from ELECTION RESEARCH who do a lot of pollstering for Republican candidates & projects. Among the questions were whether I was voting for Bush (no!), whether I supported the "war" in Iraq (which I found weird, as didn't Bush say the "war" was over like six months ago; anyhow I replied that I supported the troops), whether I described myself as pro-life (no!), whether I supported a constitutional amendment that a marriage is between one man and one woman (no!) and whether I had, in the past year, given money to a philanthropic organization or a church (Christianocentric question, isn't it, but I said yes I'd given to philanthropies). There was also a question about whether I wanted my taxes to go up (yes!) but I really wanted the word-for-word from that one again.
So I called them today after googling them, and asked them to send me a copy of the poll. If I get it, I'm sharing it with a friend who used to work for the Democratic side of the House Justice Committee, and I'll post some of the questions here, too.
3. From today's Salon Magazine:
Jack Kelly, former star reporter at USA Today (also home to last week's really inaccurate article about PoA), has admitted to fabricating extensive sections of many of his articles, including the Jewish settler who riddled a Palestinian taxi with bullets and an Arab youth who wanted to blow up the Sears Tower.
( Fabricated. They never existed. )
But because the memes of his stories have become so ingraned in the US hive mind, and to a large extent the world-mind as well, how will we ever be able to completely separate his lies out from what it is that we think or think we know about the way the world is?