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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

A guest post from Inés:

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why can’t The West Wing be real?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I came upon this link while taking my daily fill of trash on http://election.twitter.com:

Senators Obama and McCain Exchange Letters on Ethics Reform

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“the fact is”

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Reading through my daily news, I was struck by how many times political candidates (and John McCain in particular) use the phrase, “the fact is…”.  If you have to explicitly state that something is a fact, it probably isn’t.  For a nice list of all those crappy weasel words/phrases, wikipedia has a good page for why and how to avoid them in wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words.

popular == authoritarian??

Friday, July 25th, 2008

I just read this article on Media Matters about a interview between Glenn Beck of CNN and Ben Stein.  Ben Stein has been kinda on the crazy side recently, with the whole Expelled (documentary) thing.

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