Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “politics”

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Rights, Responsibilities and Love | U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd

I believe that, when my daughters grow up, barriers to marriage equality for same-sex couples will seem as archaic, and as unfair, as the laws we once had against inter-racial marriage. And I want them to know that, even if he was a little late, their dad came down on the right side of history.”

(dodd, equality, gaymarriage, marriage, politics, rights)

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Why defend freedom of icky speech?

If you accept — and I do — that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don't say or like or want said.”

(censorship, comics, essay, freedom, freespeech, law, neilgaiman, politics, speech, writing)

FiveThirtyEight: Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls

I'll try, Nate, but … can I just peek a little bit? Just once or twice?

(election, election2008, exitpolls, fivethirtyeight, politics, polling)

FiveThirtyEight.com: The Big Empty

As far as I'm concerned this is the big story of the election. Win or lose, Obama is in this thing because of his campaign's amazing ground game.

(election2008, gotv, groundgame, politics, voting)

Jury finds Stevens guilty on corruption charges - CNN.com

The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.

(alaska, corruption, crime, government, law, politics)

You can literally register to vote while you're pooping, if you have a laptop.”

I expect to see the Sarah Silverman Apple commercial next.

(politics, poop, voting)

Alaska Senator Is Indicted on Corruption Charges - NYTimes.com

Senator Ted Stevens […] has been indicted on federal corruption charges.” Oh frabjous day!

(corruption, nyt, politics)

Voting Research

Ping's page on his voting research. Some hackers hack code, others hack democracy.

(politics, pycon2007, python, security, visualization, voting)

The Passion of Mary Cheney | Slog | The Stranger's Blog | The Stranger | Seattle's Only Newspaper

Dan Savage tells it like it is: “Sorry, Mary, and fuck you.” Right on.

(cheney, children, family, gay, lesbian, politics)

The Colbert Report - O'Reilly On The Colbert Report

O'Relly: “I'm not a tough guy - this is all an act!” Colbert: “If you're an act, then what am I?” Priceless.

(bill-oreilly, colbert, funny, politics)

A Tale of Two Osamas :: MarkTAW.com

CNN's and al-Jazeera's translations side by side — who's spinning?

(binladin, news, politics)

Newspaper Endorsements 2004

Is pimping your own site on delicious verboten?

(2004, endorsement, politics, presidential)

Assassination Politics

And old but great idea

(essays, politics)

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Help OSI

Bruce Perens is running for the OSI board and needs support.

(opensource, osi, politics)