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Is content king again?
Over the past few years, you had to wonder because, let's face it, it seemed to be the distributors who were making all the impact. Even if the latest name in the game had content to offer, this was nearly always made available through a deal with a content creator. Working in a highly fragmented industry, competing owners could never quite get their act together to get a decent deal for themselves and the artists and actors who made the content in the first place.
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Then, there's Spotify having to accept it needs to throw the big labels some shares to keep them onside as well as YouTube backing down on a draconian dictat that anyone not signing its new terms of use - ie plucky independent labels - would be thrown off the service. They didn't sign but they're still there. YouTube blinked first.
That's what makes this week's revelations about who's trying to buy whom so fascinating.
Murdoch is after Time Warner but his $80 billion offer from 21st Century Fox has been turned down. Why, you might ask? Well, I don't just think it's because Time Warner doesn't want to sell, it probably realises that Murdoch has set off a chain reaction where they are sitting very pretty.
At the same time, Murdoch wants Sky to get fully control of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland to create a super pay TV satellite operator with one set of systems and content rights. So, Sky sells its near six and a half per cent to Liberty Media with, one can imagine, more than just half an eye on using the GBP480m to achieve its continental European ambition of aligning the UK with Italy and Germany.
Liberty Media. The name speaks volumes, John Malone, the cable guy, already has Virgin Media but he would appear to be interested in content and not just media. He doesn't just want to pump "Downtown Abbey" down his wires, he wants the keys to the estate.
For someone who always believed that content really is king - after all, what are those distributor networks going to show if they don't have compelling content - this is pretty gratifying.
If you'll pardon the Netflix pun, Murdoch truly has poked a finger in to a "House of Cards." Quite how they will land as they tumble is the most intriguing question.
Here's my best bet. The guys renowned for distributing content or allowing people to create their own content on their site, they're likely to want to get a means of securing top notch content not just in the future but also the past, you can instantly see the allure of owning blockbusters such as the Harry Potter films.
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Man builds Ł3K Elite: Dangerous cockpit
I'm only going to point derisively at this man because I wish I could do the same, but can't. Reply +8
Far Cry 4 PC users accidentally reveal they pirated the game
I wish more devs would release little benchmark / gameplay demos of big releases like this. I've known a few people over the years who've pirated games like this just to see how they run on their hardware.
There are a few benchmark communities around now, so they could always use those.
Me? I'd much rather have the legit games from the off, FAR less hassle and (theoretically) much better support. Reply +3
Assassin's Creed Unity's French Revolution blasted by ex-presidential candidate
@alexandrahuerta Fair enough! :D Reply 0
@freethinker101 I know, the link I posted shortly after that said that. Broche makes more sense (even if she never said it, as seems to be the case). Reply 0
@StartRunning Well, that's how the victors wrote it, anyway. ;) Reply +5
Doubt she ever said it anyway.
Also, the original line was 'brioche' - which actually makes more sense. Reply +7
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the infamous "let them eat cake" was because of a law saying that if bakeries ran out of bread they had to sell more expensive items at the same price.
Or something like that anyway. Reply 0
3DS homebrew loader built, requires obscure puzzle game
I have precisely zero interest in running pirated software. Getting rid of the idiotic region lock, however... Reply +23
Performance Analysis: Grand Theft Auto 5
Looks nice!
The problem for me is that it looked phenomenal on the last generation consoles, so while it looks nice & performs well on these, there's not a massive upgrade. Reply +1
Half-Life 2 remembered
This music always comes to mind when I think of Half Life 2
.... and now I think I'm going to have to play through it again. Again. Again. (Seriously, I've played it through on PC at least 3 times, once on Xbox, again on 360's Orange Box....) Reply +2
"You've chosen, or have been chosen..." Reply +1
Elite: Dangerous ditches planned offline mode
@Electric_Bones I was actually describing what's happened to me several times now in the Beta. Reply +1
It's so much fun when you can't play your (solo) game without connecting to a server! Or if you're flying along and the server drops you.
This seems.... counter-productive. Are they really saying they prefer the cost of running servers? Reply +1
SingStar Ultimate Party review
I'm still waiting for the DLC which will remove bloody Singstar from my PS3's XMB.
I'd gladly pay! Reply +1
Dragon Age: Inquisition review
I liked Dragon Age 2!
Yes, it felt like a weird, Mass-Effect-1-style step back with the identical caves with different furniture in them, but I still liked it.
Both of the first games were flawed-but-good in different ways.
Really looking forward to this now. Reply +1
Halo: The Master Chief Collection review
If you liked it you shoulda put a- *Gunshot* Reply +2
Everything not saved will be lost
(I only came here to glance at the comments)I'm a Mod, it's a good idea for me to check there's no spamming or such.
I put that there precisely for that reason. I'm talking to people complaining about these articles. Don't read them. Don't click them. Just like I steer clear of footsport reviews & articles; I have zero interest in them or adding to their traffic by commenting on them. Reply -4
I personally couldn't give a toss about Destiny, so I don't read the articles about it.
There's an idea, right?
(I only came here to glance at the comments) Reply -1
Super Smash Bros. 3DS players getting hit by 136-year online bans
136 years?
That's approximately 34 re-releases of Ocarina of Time. Reply +5
Resogun is heading to PlayStation Vita
\o/ Reply +1
Halo 2 Anniversary launch trailer shows off fancy pants new cinematics
That looks a bit nice.
Captain Miranda Keyes looks a little.... odd in that video, though. Something going on with her eyes. Reply +9
Microsoft announces Xbox One Christmas price cut in US
Whichever way you look at this, it's hard not to see it as a bit of a desperate bid to get more boxes into homes in the face of the PS4 consistently outselling it. Reply +4
Sunset Overdrive review
More good games coming out on any platform is a Good Thing.
No, I don't have an Xbone or PS4 yet, but I will. Eventually. Reply +6
Nintendo 3DS sold 113k in Japan last week
So, are Nintendo only flogging the new 3DS models in Japan now? Reply +1
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas getting Xbox 360 re-release, leaked Achievements suggest
@skowhegan I believe you. >__> Reply +4
could a Xbox 360 and/or PlayStation 2 port be next?*Pretty* sure it's already been released on PS2 :D Reply +42
Alien Isolation: Corporate Lockdown DLC release date revealed
Loved the game. Loved the story.
I want more of that, NOT challenge maps. Is this *just* challenge maps? Because that's what it sounds like from this. Reply +6
Two discs "wasn't practical" for Halo: Master Chief Collection
I'm weird on this. For some reason I think ACTUALLY PROVIDING THE STORAGE REQUIRED FOR THE GAMES IN THE BOX would be 'practical'.
A 20gb download isn't *that* much on fibre, but standard broadband?
Hell's bells. Reply +2
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COD: Advanced Warfare a mere 55GB on PC
Advanced Installfare. Reply +10
Anita Sarkeesian cancels university speech following school shooting threat
@man.the.king I think you're inferring a HELL OF A LOT into that which isn't there. Reply +1
@man.the.king Fair enough. Reply 0
I dont know who is discriminated against more.Spoiler: it's women.
The problem with feminism is their "because of patriarchy"The feminists I've talked about this with have pointed out that PATRIARCHY IS A PROBLEM FOR MEN TOO.
Because we should man-up, boys don't cry, if you ask for help then you're weak, men shouldn't be interested in 'girly hobbies' etc. Reply +1
@man.the.king This article?
Because I don't think he says that. Reply +2
@Kzin If you truly, seriously think men are discriminated against more than women then you simply don't know what you're talking about.
Gender pay gap by country Reply +2
@cloudskipa Comments move far quicker so they're more difficult to moderate.
Moderation wasn't any heavier than usual on such a busy article. Bear in mind that we're not around all the time on all articles. Reply -1
You missed my point. The feminist lobby aren´t intressted in getting women into male dominated UNattractive jobs, like garbage collectors, they just wan´t to get women into attractive jobs.No. The POINT of feminism is that people can do jobs if they choose, not be pushed into / excluded from them based just on their gender. It's called feminism because women were the ones most affected by this discrimination.
The job / role can be prestigious or utilitarian, it doesn't matter; although some obviously push for the prestigious jobs they were traditionally excluded from. That's maybe were you're getting that perception from. Reply +2
Encouraging that this didn't deteriorate into war and cannibalism overnight. Turns out there's hope for us after al! Reply 0
@ghostgate2001 I've been called all sorts for simply not agreeing with GGers. Not attacking, just not agreeing.
"IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US YOU'RE AGAINST US" is just bloody stupid. Reply +1
@W4RLORD Completely natively! So does the wired 360 pad, but that was added slightly later on. I've got a UG007 HDMI stick with 4.2 on it and while the DS3 works completely fine, it doesn't 'see' the 360 pad. My Nexus 7 sees both with no problem.
The GTA Anniversary ports on Android play just like they did on PS2! :D Reply +1
Google announces $99 Nexus Player Android console
@Ryze I never considered an Ouya because they were of very similar spec to Android HDMI sticks which were coming out of the far east at the time - except more expensive and didn't include Google Play store.
That's my biggest problem with Ouya - it's an Android SOC like a lot of others but locked off to their own store. Reply +1
If people just want a simple better-than-a-smartTV box hooked up to their TVs then boxes like this deliver it.
All those apps which got pushed onto 360 & PS3 for video, music & social media? This could do that.
Also, if it's stock Android - and the Nexus name would suggest that - then it'd also work with wired 360 pads, Dual Shocks etc just like a lot of modern Android hardware does.
Personally, I use my UG007 for GTA, MAME, various other emulators & quite a few Android games & media apps on the big screen.
edit: Hmm, no mention of USB & I'm highly suspicious of that "built for TV" lark unless it's just a custom launcher. Reply +1
This could be interesting.
BYE BYE, OUYA. Reply +1


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Opinion By Amy Hunter
Originally printed 11/1/2012 (Issue 2044 - Between The Lines News)
"The Romney & Co. strategy is crystal clear: Make it up as you go along. Take advantage of any opportunity to sell yourself in any way necessary simply to seem acceptable. When these public positions become problematic for your donors or base, quietly reassure them in Friday afternoon media dumps and late night retractions that you really ARE, (or, aren't) as extreme as you said you were three, five, six months or more disturbingly, two weeks ago. The public, will not be paying attention ..."
I wrote that opening paragraph nearly six months ago. I repeat it here because I was thinking this morning, trying to articulate - again - what truly bothers me about this year's election. I think I finally put my finger on why I feel so ... so, passionate.
Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton said, "It's the economy, stupid."
My 2012 version, "It's the down-ballot, dummy."
Certainly, a Romney-Ryan administration would be a very, very bad thing for the economy and the country as a whole. A Romney presidency and a GOP controlled legislature would be distressingly bad, especially for LGBT people, women, minorities, the poor, and a whole list of other people, places and things. But perhaps as bad, if not worse, is what could happen if we lose the races below the top of the ticket: the down-ballot.
My presidential pick is a no-brainer. I don't need many neurons firing to look at Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and contrast them on the issues that matter to me and the progressive community in general. But as important as it is to re-elect Barack Obama as our president, we need to be aware of how our lives will be affected in immediate and very direct ways by who we send to Congress, the Senate and closer to home - our state legislature, courts and countywide offices.
In 2010, a bunch of people stayed home from the polls. As a consequence across the state, those who did vote elected a bunch of folks based solely on the idea that they were "fiscally responsible." They lied. It was the perfect bait and switch that described the Romney campaign in the first paragraph. That Mitt Romney and his cohorts are lying now seems, like I said, a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, in Michigan in 2010, enough people bought the falsehoods, and what we got bore little resemblance to their self-proclaimed fiscal conservancy. Indeed, we brought to power a cadre of extreme-right justices, legislators and statewide officials whose real agenda was limiting economic opportunity, proscribing even more rights for the already marginalized, killing public education and giving away our tax dollars to corporate interests. We can and must begin to fix what happened to our state in 2010.
As chairperson of Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality, I wrote the following in a recent op-ed for the Kalamazoo Gazette; "Michigan needs balance restored to our state and local government. It is clear from the legislation and rhetoric coming out of Lansing since 2010 that our elected government has become dominated by individuals and an agenda that serves only a narrow constituency.
"In the America of 2012, this is unacceptable, particularly in a state with as diverse an electorate as ours. Michigan history is storied and rich with ideals that enable an ever-diversifying population to contribute to and share in the promise of safe, secure and productive lives for themselves and their families. And yet, some lawmakers appear bent on limiting the promise of a better future for Michigan's citizens and residents. Indeed, to some in whom we have entrusted our future, that promise is seemingly reserved for a narrowly defined and largely fictional majority equating roughly to those 'like us.'"
President Obama's administration has ushered in a new respect for LGBT Americans at the federal level. The list of accomplishments is long but we know - and he knows - that his work isn't done. He must be given a chance to continue that work.
Unfortunately, even when we return him to the White House for another four years, those who control our state courts and legislative bodies can and will make our lives increasingly hard if we choose unwisely. The next two years in this state may well prove decisive for the future of equality for us all; not just for LGBT persons and their families, but so, too, for collective bargaining, affordable healthcare, a woman's right to choose and access to quality education. All of these and more hang in the balance depending on who we send to office in this election.
We have an historic opportunity on Nov. 6 to correct the ideological tilt of both the nation and our state. To make that correction, we must vote in record numbers and we must vote wisely, all the way down-ballot too.
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thank u sooo much and i just did. and on the poll, its a tie between forget you and loser like me. both r like my two fave songs. LOL!
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o ya i am totally watching it!!! and i get to watch it at 5 cuz i live in CA! and they film it 5 PM in Los Angeles, so eastern time peeps can watch it at 8. and my TV lets me watch things eastern time so i can watch it at 5!!! XD
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Look closely at your new W-2 form this tax season. Notice Box 12 and a two-letter code, DD.
If you work for an employer with 250 or more workers, information in that box for the first time is required by the Affordable Care Act. It tells how much you and your employer spent on your health insurance premiums.
"It's going to be an eye-opener for a lot of people," said Jerry Nebbia, a health benefits expert in Mercer's Kansas City, Mo., office. "A lot of people have no idea what the true cost is."
The W-2 reporting requirement for health insurance is to expand next year to include employers with fewer than 250 on payroll.
The health insurance benefit amount isn't taxable as personal income — for now, anyway. But it's insight into your employer's total cost of your compensation.
It's a close reflection of what you would pay if you lost your employer subsidy and wanted to continue the same coverage under COBRA.
In the workplace at large, the cost of employer-paid benefits equals nearly 31 percent of total employment costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of that, health insurance costs account for about 7.7 percent of employer costs in private industry and about 11.7 percent in state and local government.
For some workers, employer-sponsored health insurance is a hefty benefit amounting to $5,000, $10,000, even $20,000 a year.
Last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's survey, employer-sponsored health insurance cost an average of $5,615 for individuals and $15,745 for families.
The requirement to include the full health insurance cost on W-2s was conceived partly to make employees more aware of the actual cost of their coverage.
Often, employees with employer-subsidized coverage are paying only one-fourth of the full premium cost.
Knowing the real price is important because workers are being asked to be smarter consumers of health care, to make more coverage choices or to shoulder more of the cost.
Knowing the full cost of health benefits also may help explain why pay raises are smaller than employees would like; sometimes, employers are putting more money into health insurance instead of direct wages and salaries.
If you see the Box 12, DD information, you may have to do some extra work to figure out what your employer's cost was. You may need to look at your final pay stub from 2012 and subtract what you paid for your health insurance from the new DD amount. The difference is your employer's share.
Of note: This box shows only premium costs. It doesn't reflect anything you spent on out-of-pocket health care expenses, your co-payments or deductibles. It also doesn't include money in health savings accounts, and it isn't required to include amounts spent on separate dental or vision plans.
Although your employer's health care contribution isn't counted as taxable income now, the Box 12, DD information lays the groundwork for possible tax law changes if Congress decides the value of that employee benefit should be taxed. The tax break for employer-paid health benefits equals about $180 billion a year in potential tax revenue. Analysts say that is worth 80 percent more than the tax break for home mortgage interest deductions.
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Freak Show & Tell: 'It Was As Though a Large Christmas Tree Was Growing Out of Her Upper Body'
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That's where I come in! Here's an unflinching look back at TV's Week in Freak Shows.
I Was Impaled (Discovery Fit & Health)
Who Is This Now? Michelle.
Why Are We Watching Her? Against all odds, she's survived a unique injury to her neck.
How Did She Get Here? Driving along a remote forest road with her husband, Michelle got impaled by a two-foot spruce tree branch that caught her throat through the truck window.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? "It was as though a large Christmas tree was growing out of her upper body," says Tony, one of the EMTs who helped to stabilize Michelle before taking her to the hospital. And it does. That's exactly what it looks like. Horrifyingly.
What Have We Learned? When Michelle's husband, Danny, describes the hour-long drive over rough roads just to get Michelle from the site of the impalement to the nearest marker of civilization — the hunting lodge that's still a 20-minute helicopter ride from the nearest trauma center — one can't help but reflect that there are some real pluses to city living.
19 Kids and Counting (TLC)
Who Is This Now? Michael and Sarah Pope, and their son Samuel.
Why Are We Watching Them? They've come for dinner with mega-parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.
How Did They Get Here? Samuel was born prematurely, so Sarah ended up in the same NICU pod with Michelle when her youngest daughter, Josie, was born (also premature).
What's the Grossest Thing We See? It's a tie between the preparation of Tater Tot Casserole (ground beef, Tater Tots, and "a creamy sauce" of indeterminate composition) and the sight of both toddlers walking barefoot on the kitchen counter where dinner is being assembled.
What Have We Learned? Hygiene is the first casualty of an absurdly oversize family.
Prom Queens (Lifetime)
Who Is This Now? Pelinsu.
Why Are We Watching Her? She's facing a tough fight for prom queen at her Miami Beach high school.
How Did She Get Here? She cut 35 days of school and gained a reputation as a hard partier.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Pelinsu is definitely a spoiled dick — her own mother, Tara, tells the camera, "She's, like, so mean!" and then laughs as though Pelinsu's lack of character isn't partly Tara's fault — but that doesn't excuse the narrator's rude remarks about Pelinsu's (great) figure, particularly given the pressures teenage girls face with regard to their body image. To wit: "It's been two months since Pelinsu's tried on her dress. Let's hope she's been skipping the ice cream sundaes! … Suck it in, girl; you only have to wear it once! … Maybe that dress would fit better if she lost a few pounds of attitude!" It's not OK.
What Have We Learned? Calling itself "Television for Women" evidently doesn't preclude Lifetime from broadcasting sexist "no fat chicks" BS.
Despite the gnarly tree story, Tara Ariano still loves Christmas.
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Here's my take on how the Senate elections go:
Recent polls do seem to indicate movement toward Braley in Iowa and (much more dramatically) toward Begich in Alaska, and I'm not buying the polls of Colorado as most seem to be modeling a 2010 style turnout (or even worse than that in some cases) in a different year with a different (i.e. vote by mail) system. I predict that both Louisiana and Georgia go to runoffs, and Kansas and Kentucky are the only ones that I'm really conflicted about. Probably tilted by the slightest margins to the GOP in both, but McConnell could really lose I think. In any event it will not matter if this all comes to pass, in terms of Senate control. Follow the link to play around with the map. Heck, make your own. It's fun!
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This is a propos of nothing in particular, but just in general, I really, really hope that by 2016 unemployment is sufficiently low that we don't have to have a whole election where everybody promises jobs. It's all lies, frankly. The right's theory is basically that, by plying rich folks with huge tax cuts and other giveaways (and of course the other goodies, deregulation and the rest), they'll respond by creating jobs. This is not merely ridiculous but absurd, as anyone who has ever worked in the private sector knows, businesses spend most of their time trying to cut jobs. Not even attacking it so much as saying this is the way it is: if you decide that government has no real role to play in protecting peoples' jobs in general (and we don't), then you have to accept that businesses will do all they can to cut them. It's the bargain we've chosen to make as a society, plain and simple. Giving them more money has little to do with anything, it's an answer to some other question altogether. On the other hand, Democrats have in the past had a very successful way of creating jobs through direct federal employment of the unemployed, but for many political reasons they are extremely reluctant to do this now. Even after 2008 with huge majorities in Congress and wide latitude to make economic policy, this was not really considered. And at this point, even the basic principle of stimulus is politically impossible at the federal level. So the answer has to follow the question indirectly, by growing the economy, or symbolically, with stuff like incentives to hire veterans. But the growth option has been stymied by the austerity regime we got in the Budget Control Act (i.e. the debt ceiling), as well as the Obama Administration's puzzling unwillingness to name people to the Federal Reserve Board. I don't even know if the Administration has cast the answer as being basically about growth. So even though this is still a big issue, neither party really has much of an answer here. So I can only hope that it improves despite our best efforts, so we can talk about something else.
I've been meaning to write about this piece from a while back that argues against devolution. It's a bit odd. For one thing, the two examples seem to confuse the very different ideas of devolution and secession. Having the blue states become part of Canada would not be an example of devolution, but one of secession. (So, for that matter, was the proposed Scottish referendum. Which failed in part because of promises of greater devolution.) While there are some domestic liberals who do favor secession (there's a decent percentage in Vermont, at least), very few favor devolution (which is, after all, just a fancy word for enhanced federalism/less central control) so far as I can tell. Nearly all prefer federal to state power, and my guess is that post-2010, there would be significantly more liberal support for a unitary state (i.e. one without states) than an enhancement of the powers of individual states. The polling on this isn't there but my guess is that it would be 3-to-1 with the public at least, and nearly unanimous among influential liberals. In any event, there has been zero support for the various devolutionary approaches that have been proposed in the past couple of years, such as block-granting Medicare. So the article comes off as baffling, arguing against a more-federalist liberalism that doesn't seem to exist in any significant way, and has nothing to do with the specific examples raised.
A more relevant argument would have opposed the more provably real phenomenon of liberal secessionism. I don't favor such an approach at this time, but it's conceivable that at some point in the future, progressives might find it more enticing to create separate, smaller countries that could be enclaves of leftist politics. It's not likely in the immediate future, but this country's longstanding and ironic animus toward "bigness" could provide the basis for such a move, and if you disagree, then why is it that the first step in demonizing anything necessitates affixing the word "big" to it. You know, big government, big labor, big tobacco, big business, etc. I would actually be interested in reading some serious liberal arguments for and against this approach–my guess is that it would revolve around the anti-side arguing against hanging red-state minority members out to dry and appeals to mythos, and the pro-side invoking the lack of responsiveness of a very distant federal government and media as well as the poor people in blue states that should also be considered.
Ed Kilgore's post on a particularly hackish National Journal profile of Joni Ernst brings to mind the question of why specific Republicans wind up becoming media darlings, while others do not. Sometimes it makes sense: John McCain is a very limited political talent, but as someone who has lifelong training in dealing with elites in the military and political worlds, it's not surprising he has a very good understanding of how to cultivate them. But I have no idea why Joni Ernst has managed to enjoy such laughably favorable coverage or, conversely, what Bruce Braley has done to merit such poor coverage. I guess the media would rather tell the story of a plainspoken farmer and soldier–a veritable Cincinatus!–rising to power than a former trial lawyer who goes for the capillary and commits gaffes. And just off the top of my head, I can see why the media was more interested in pumping up truck-ridin', nude photo-posing bad boy Scott Brown over a dull underachiever like Martha Coakley. Or, the ultimate example, plainspoken "outsider" George W. Bush over boring, sweaty Al Gore. But placing drama and narrative over substance is, while understandable, utterly unacceptable, and it happens often enough that Democrats should do everything they can to flag it when it occurs.
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Literally Saying Anything To Get ElectedIt's worth noting that at this point, Scott Walker has committed multiple heresies against acceptable conservative doctrine in his attempt to win another term, previously on taxes and now on abortion. I'm strongly disinclined to believe that this will hurt him next month, as the Republican Party and its donors are strongly invested in securing > more ... (0 comments)This will be interesting. I mean, the basic problem with rape law enforcement is still that it's one person's word against another, but this law does mean that there's no more gray area with respect to unconsciousness. That's good. The bigger problem is that it is difficult to enforce overall, and the real challenge in > more ... (1 comments)I haven't been traveling, nor have I not been thinking about current events, politics and all the rest. I haven't really been able to think of anything new to say at this time about the big issues. I still think the entire Iraq/ISIS venture is ill-conceived at best, that it will turn out badly, and > more ... (1 comments)
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