Cognitive dissonance.
At Wikipedia, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny:
Does. Not. Compute.
Andrew Sullivan points to “new McCain POW footage,” but the film is a longer cut (and much better ‘print’) of the footage included here. The longer cut shows much more clearly the degree of mobility in McCain’s neck, shoulder, and left arm (for example, when he tips his ash at 3:17). At 1:07, the [...]
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To: Nettime-l <nettime-l {AT} kein.org>
Subject: <nettime> how to fix a liquidity crisis
From: t byfield <tbyfield {AT} panix.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007
Until just a few months ago, received wisdom held that the “modern” global financial system had become so complex and intertwingled that it had developed a de facto ability to absorb and dissipate almost any [...]
Did Rick Davis have his hooks in Dean’s operations in early ’04?
3EDC’s website as archived on 10 Jun ’04:
Who’s we?
So what was Rick Davis up to in early summer ’04?
3EDC’s website as archived almost three months earlier, on 18 Mar ’04, said: “Welcome nicco.trueserver.com to Your New Server!”
Who’s nicco?
How about Nicco A. Mele, former deanforamerica.com [...]
A-list blogger 1:
(Desperate and Reckless: Ramp up Georgia crisis for votes; call off half the GOP convention; pick a demonstrably unqualified freshman governor to salvage his campaign; call for firing head of the SEC; now ask to have presidential debates delayed or canceled so he can politicize the bailout debate…)
A-list blogger 2:
Why he seems so [...]
How the North Vietnamese exploited McCain’s nicotine habit for propaganda purposes, and how, since then, McCain—and everyone else—can’t see the forest for the tobacco plantation
Hugh E. Scott, the maintainer and registrant of unfitmccain.com, offers “eight reasons for voting against” McCain, most of which are mainstays of leftish commentary. But one reason treads on a subject [...]
John McCain, on the virtues of presiding while seated:
Offshore drilling:
“I’m sorry Congress is gridlocked again on offshore drilling,” McCain said. “When I’m president, we’ll all sit down together and work this out.” [Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant, Columbus, OH, Jul ’08]
Palin:
“She stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit [...]
[Update: Hentoff endorses.]
Continuing the great tradition of Newt Gingrich’s ’94 effort to convert the US to a parliamentary democracy (with himself as the self-styled PM), the Congressional Research Service notes John McCain’s radical proposal for a new political process:
In May 2008, Senator and presidential candidate John McCain stated that, as President, he would “ask Congress [...]