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Politics

A collection of 147 issues

"Smoke 'em out" with PowerPoint.

photo by Ralf Stockmann. This is a really interesting excerpt, taken from Thomas E. Rick’s Fiasco, especially given Tufte’s assertions about PowerPoint: That reliance on slides rather than formal written orders seemed to some military professionals to capture the essence of Rumsfeld’s amateurish approach to war planning.

Cessez-le-feu.

Cessez-le-feu, originally uploaded by Hugo*. A demonstration in Paris yesterday, via Flickr.

Love The Stranger. Hate Tim Eyman.

God, I love The Stranger. It’s one of Seattle’s free, alternative newspapers and the writing is caustically sarcastic and fabulous. Here’s an excerpt about Tim Eyman, a conservative Washingtonian who can best be described as a political hemorrhoid: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – Speaking of alleged hate crimes: Today

The Devil Came on Horseback.

I just got back from this documentary screening at the Seattle International Film Festival. It’s a film by former Marine Brian Steidle about the genocide in Darfur. More later, but I wanted to post these links now: The documentary. Divest from companies doing business in Darfur.

When you're in love with a black baby.

She got on the Number 13 at 2nd and Galer. A white woman and a little black boy. You don’t see that combination very often in Seattle, let alone on top of Queen Anne. His cherubic, brown cheeks. Bright yellow jacket. Baby hoodie with khakis and little black Nikes.

Happy New Year. 3,000 Dead.

A powerful information design piece from the New York Times feature: Faces of the Dead. Each tiny square represents one dead soldier. When clicked, the whole image displays that soldier’s face. Sad, but powerful.

More from my fave news source, the New York Times.

After reading Random Family (see “Literaire” in the right-hand column), I’ve become increasingly interested in our nation’s infamous “War on Drugs” and what a big, fucking, racist joke it is. Anyway, it’s also prompted me to start volunteering with the King County Bar Association to help change

Quel idiot!

, originally uploaded by Bright Tal. More from The Stranger’s Last Days: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – Clearly jealous of the attention lavished on Dick Cheney following the vice president’s shooting of an elderly man in the face, today President Bush sought to reestablish himself as America’s premier dangerous idiot,

Fuckers.

All of them. Excuse my French, but I hate Karl Rove. And how the “Christian” right can honestly believe that this man embodies any semblance of moral principle is beyond me. Rove Case May Test Bush’s Loyalty to His Closest Aides By DAVID E. SANGER Published: July 13, 2005

Just the facts, Jack.

Okay, so I’m not even going to go into here how PISSED OFF I was while driving home from Baltimore, listening to the McBimbos spewing all their hot, rancid air at the RNC last week. No, I won’t say anything. I won’t use the "F"