Archive for the '2008 Elections' Category
It seems that the sub-prime mess will have even more fallout than I’d thought back in this post in April. I’d thought about the global connections but there are a few things happening that could make this a really sticky wicket, and the fallout could well be much larger than anyone’s allowing right [...]
Hat Tip: TLF
An interesting web application that the New York Times put on their website allowing you to search the transcript of the Presidential debates for any particular word. You can roll your cursor over the highlighted portions of the text, and you will see that snippet of text, which you can click on [...]
Well, since there have been 3 cases of BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA, a Kansas-based farm, Creekstone, wants to test all of its Cows for BSE. Not so fast, says the Bush administration, which had filed suit to stop the testing from being done. Note that Creekstone does only want to [...]
Condi had some interesting things to say while criticizing Hugo Chavez, who has, we should be reminded, actually won each and every of the elections he has stood in. The BBC reports this rather straightly, not indicating if Condi was even aware of the irony here:
“Freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of [...]
Well this “headline as a question thing” that I had mentioned in my post of May 15th seems to have caught on, or perhaps I have just become attuned to it so I notice it more, in the San Jose Mercury, Why U.S. doesn’t stop tainted food from China, (not technically a question, but it’s [...]
Food Safety has become a hot topic, and it looks like it might play a role in the upcoming election, from some of the sound bites from Hillary. And not a moment too soon, as the long neglect coupled with the effects of our highly centralized (and ever increasingly globalised) food supply are ripe [...]
A story in The Scientist by Katherine Eban about the woefully inadequate disease surveillance efforts in the USA. In particular, the media have started to play their necessary role, as discussed here.
In an earlier discussion I had started over at Freedom to Tinker about the lack of an effective syndromic surveillance system, [...]
The Green Party in the United States hasn’t made much progress at all. It is even seen by some as doing a favor to the Republicans, by displacing Democratic votes. But here it is in Canada, working with another mainstream party, and furthering it’s own goals, too. It’s high time [...]
If an important story concerning an issue of manifest public concern shows up in the New York Times only five years after its been written about in many well-researched books, is it still really a newspaper? Don’t we maybe need another word? What about all those images in the popular culture of newspapers rushing [...]
A question comes to mind when reading all of the posts on Ed Felten’s Blog Freedom to Tinker and the several posts of Tim Lee at Tech Liberation Front, about the many security flaws in the Diebold electronic voting machines.
Given the likelihood for widespread fraud, and the loss of transarency, to our elections, what is [...]
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