THE END OF POLITICS

[From UNDERNEWS ]
Sam Smith
As I tried, for about the seventeenth time, to make sense of the healthcare negotiations, I suddenly realized that I wasn’t watching a political debate at all; rather it…

Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist

[From RebelReports] While the DoD targets a community group that does no business with the Pentagon, actual corporate crooks go un-confronted and continue to rake in $ billions in contracts. By…

Print: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?

[From The Nation]
Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
by JEREMY SCAHILL
Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to…

It’s not a pike. It’s a gaff hook.

[From Pragmatos]


NY Magazine is having fun with Dan Brown’s latest masterpiece. It’s a respectable lineup, and while one expects fine stuff from Geoff Pullum, I was waiting for Matt Taibbi, who…

PR in Germany

[From Pragmatos]
I ran across two rather different takes on the proportionality of the results of Germany’s recent election.
First we have Matthew Søberg Shugart at Fruits and Votes:
The German…