Obama ran for President on a nebulous campaign of “Hope and Change” that was short on policy positions (and still is now) and later actually had a whole host of them redacted from his website. But for people thinking about becoming members of his Administration, the questions are quite specific. Tell Us Everything. Doesn’t Obama have any faith at all in the people who might | Read More »
To follow up on the post about the ultra-nationalist cryptofascist Russians, it’s not just the far-right in Russia who are talking about the Obama administration. I daresay, however, that the view from the Russian far-left is rosier: they view Obama not as presaging the destruction of America, but as a rebirth that could accrue to their benefit. Hope and Change, and all that. From the | Read More »
[Update: Generally I'll pick one place or the other to post things, but this one was kind of a bookend and I thought I'd place it in both. It won't be my usual practice.] To follow up on the RedHot post about the ultra-nationalist cryptofascist Russians, it’s not just the far-right in Russia who are talking about the Obama administration. I daresay, however, that the | Read More »
There is no shortage of dispirted and angry Republicans this morning as a result of last night’s sweeping losses, but I want to ask them to put that aside for the moment and consider something remarkable and hopeful about Barack Obama’s victory. Last night was a truly profound event for African Americans in this country and around the world, the equal of anything that ever | Read More »
[Update: Warning. Parody? The related story is that Barack Obama is going on vacation... (all humor attributable to Drudge).] Here it is, from the Times in Britain: U.C. Berkeley researchers have blabbed to the press about their proprietary light-bending coatings, invented by a team led by Xiang Zhang, that should allow for the complete invisibility of human beings and cloaking them as well as their | Read More »
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