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Signs, signs…
This morning I headed out shopping, and to entertain myself I played a little “count the roadside signs” game as I drove home through town. There are a number of highly contested local elections going on, so there’s no lack of political signs stuck all over the place. But very few for either McCain or [...]
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Is this what we’ve become?
I don’t post about politics much here. I got into the habit of keeping my politics to myself at some point. But sometimes I need to speak up. Read this. And this. It’s getting scary out there. At McCain rallies hateful words (“Kill him!” “He’s a terrorist!” “Traitor!“) are spewed, and the candidate has refused [...]
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Talking Politics on Twitter?
My friend Jim Long (an NBC camera operator) was covering an event involving a group called Move America Forward, and he twittered “amazing how polarizing this war is. now the rhetoric has shifted to calling on war dissenters to leave this country.” Later he added “sometimes the polarization in this country saddens me. i know [...]
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Do you know what’s happening in Newark?
Random violence. Children afraid to walk outside. Parents afraid to let their teenagers out the door. People rushing to get home before dark. Politicians calling for action, but it’s so late in that game. Twenty minutes away from my quiet suburban existence. In Newark NJ. Killed in the attack were Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, [...]
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yeah, but it was… funny.
NJ.com covers the NJ blog stream (not mine) and uncovers this controversy: How soon is too soon to joke about a governor who is in the hospital after a serious car accident? Atlantic County Republican Chairman Keith Davis caught some criticism last week when he posted this joke about Corzine’s car crash on his blog [...]
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Tweeting Obama’s Speech