Plunderbund

The Wall Street Journal has a good article online with selected portions of a Q&A with Obama that shed some light on his plans for his Presidency, and how he plans to go about business.
WSJ: I wanted to talk about long-term economic growth, sort of following on your speech. I noticed that in an interesting […]

Update: It’s out!
Firefox 3.0 comes out today, and the Mozilla community is trying to set a Guinness World Record for “most downloads in a 24 hour period”. Firefox has been a leader in web browsing innovations for years; I’ve been using it as my daily browser since version 0.7 came out in […]

Good piggy-back for today’s YouTube Tuesday. No, this is not a joke.

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – […]

Hilarious.

As a man who brews beer at home, I find a presidential candidate who promises to veto beer completely unacceptable. That’s why I’m voting for Obama:

Despite watching virtually zero advertising (and generally disliking the profession altogether), I have to admit… I’m still a sucker for good adverts. And this Nike Football advert I noticed while watching the opening match for my Netherlands in the Euro ‘08 Championships last night on my PVR (directed by Guy Ritchie) struck me as […]

McCain from his long lifetime of experience to reference elections from over 100 years ago.
“I believe that people are interested very much in substance,” McCain said. “If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president.”
Best to make comparisons to events you can remember, of course.
In all seriousness, it’s an interesting comparison by […]

I don’t know this guy from Adam, but if reliable…
A Democratic superdelegate from New Jersey said he is worried that unifying the party behind Barack Obama may be difficult because the Clinton camp “has engaged in some very divisive tactics and rhetoric it should not have.”
Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton throughout the primary […]

Heh. This is from February, but I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before.

Hello, scary police state. How are you? I must be honest - I really wasn’t hoping to see you around here anytime soon. I can’t say I’m surprised, given the rampant fear mongering and obsession with security. All I ask that you at least reach for the Tazer before the […]

We’ve seen these kinds of charts before, but this one is especially good; it shows where Clinton and Obama got their support, when, and explains the why (as much as they can, anyway). Very interesting.

Click on the image to view full-size.
What’s interesting is how strongly Obama performed in urban areas, with three or four […]

In case - like me - you didn’t get to see them earlier…
Obama:

Clinton:

And - for completeness - McCain:

I’m sure the people who haven’t come to grips with the results will consider this another example of the “anti-Clinton media bias”, but I think this is a pretty fair assessment.
Last November, at about seven in the morning, I remember trying to ask Hillary Clinton a quick question as she swept out of a hotel […]

Bonobo has a great post up on Blue Bexley about Pat Tiberi. So great, I even stole the title (well, that and I couldn’t come up with a clever title myself). I can’t really come up with a good excerpt, so just go read it.