Naveed Lalani, a Fall 2004 Web Design student of mine at The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a new company called Pyrix.com, which “offers non-partisan political software that fuses technology and democracy for the masses—empowering the average political entrepreneur.” The first point in their 10 point Philosophy: We Don’t Take Sides. We…
Joan Lowy of the Associated Press reports that “[a]ctivists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.” The forum in question is the Values Voter Summit. The creators claim they…
In today’s New York Times, Dowd, Friedman, and Rich hold little back in their reading of the construction and marketing of, rhetoric coming from, and misreading by Sarah Palin and the (seemingly vanishing) John McCain: Dowd’s first sentence in “Bering Straight Talk”: I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever…