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Larry Kudlow PWNED on C-SPAN

Gore Vidal Post Election

Bush hates homework. Obama mainlines it.

Dirk Does Dicipline

The Interior Department has taken disciplinary action against more than a half dozen workers who accepted lavish gifts, partied and in some cases had sex with employees from the energy companies they regulated.

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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne had vowed to take swift action to squelch what he called an "ethics storm." But disciplinary procedures for civil servants prevented him from taking action for at least a month.

via AP

Walt Minnick Interviewed By NPR

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN HERE

Butch Otter Interviewed By The Economist

Speaking of Libertarian Idaho values, back in 1978, Butch Otter said this when interviewed by Reason Magazine:

“if a person, of his own free will, wants to use marijuana, I question whether the government has any propriety in telling him he can’t.” By limiting freedom, he said, “the government, in effect, is taking away the only real gift the Lord gave us.”

Let's get that law worked out, Gov.

Treasury Secretary To-Be: Tim Geithner

IPTV: Minnick/Sali Debate Analysis

IPTV has just released a special after-debate discussion between Betty Richardson and Rod Beck. Along with Marsha Franklin, they discuss the performances of the two CD1 Candidates.  In case you haven't heard, Minnick beat Sali with 50.6 percent of the vote.

Butch's "Terrorist Fistbump"

Obviously, Governor Otter and the Undisclosed Kid in this picture are planning Jihad on reading.

Steven Colbert: Spina Biffida Roast

obama campaign secret: blue state digital

Curious how the inter-connectivity of the Obama campaign comes together? 
Blue State Digital has answers.

Kucinich & Cummings On The Market

"Racketeering On A Scale This Country Has Never Seen Before!!!"

Watch Full Hearing Here (Panel One) (Panel Two)

gore vidal on bbc election night

gore vidal on bbc 080522

election 2008 map-o-gasm

maps of election party voting trends by Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan for data nerds everywhere.

election night 2008: boise, idaho

be sure to see this wonderful audio slideshow by the talented Idaho Statesman photographers and Thanh Tan of IPTV.

http://legacy.idahostatesman.com/media/2008/election/

zinn and chomsky

on the state of the world today . . .

why should we pay for their crisis?

Anti-capitalist student protestors clash with police as they demonstrate in the financial district of the City in London October 10, 2008. 

REUTERS/Luke Macgregor 

link to source

BLOG-TEXT

When discussing the differences between reading news either on printed newspaper or digital screens, one argument has always struck me as inherently TRUE.

WITH A NEWSPAPER, you can be reading an article about POPSICLES when across the page, you might read an article about STEAK.  Watery-sugar-frozen treats have nothing to do with dead-animal-tender-and-bloody-meat - but there they are, on the same page. 

Due in part is seems because of the nature and demands of newspaper layout.

Now, I have only ever imagined what those demands and the workflow of newspaper layout would be like - but as a fellow graphic designer, it seems like you put articles where they generally fit on a "word-count-determines -placement-in-stylesheet" within an overall category of "WORLD NEWS" or "SPORTS" or the nebulous "LIFE" section strategy.

Blog architecture is key to replicating this experience on the web.

Some blogs are leading the way in illustrating moments of two or more random elements appearing in that stumble-across-content configuration because of the inherent layout/workflow/tag/ design and the random-serve aspect of blogs.

These are two such examples, found last night and this afternoon.

this - from RAWSTORY - is not satire.  At least i don't think it was written with the intention of it being satire.

and this - from Wonkette.

Dennis Kucinich on Rachel Maddow