Archive for the 'Analysis' Category
Blogging’s Usefulness I
Paul Boutin has a new article out for Wired called Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook Make Blogging Look So 2004. While he does have a point in that blogs can’t compete directly against the strengths of those services anymore, I believe he underestimates the value of blogging today. It still outshines Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook on several factors. Let’s [...]
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On Lies and Diversification
[Note: I saw this draft from two weeks ago and decided that with the smears heating up to October levels, it would still be pertinent to publish today.]
So I just saw a post of a video that gave me a chilling thought.
Let’s presume lies are acceptable, though risky investments in a candidate’s campaign portfolio. [...]
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Dangerous Logic
I came across a piece that disturbed me the other day on The Corner. It was written by Stanley Kurtz in response to the recent NYT Obama-Ayers piece. I can understand how Kurtz might not wish to reach the same conclusion as the NYT article, whose conclusion found no meaningful link between the two [...]
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One of my favorite podcasts that I make sure to listen to (unedited whenever possible) is the Intelligence Squared US debates published by NPR. I love that show because they gather some of the brightest minds to argue cogently for and against a relevant issue of the day. I’m planning on excerpting pieces from the debate [...]
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Note: Today brings another edition of Unpacking Arguments. If you have an argument you’ve found that you’d like me to analyze, feel free to email me at Remixer96@gmail.com and I’ll feature it in an upcoming post.
Update: Hot Air seems to have picked up on York’s post as well, but it seems his primary concern is [...]
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I’m starting a new style of blog post today I’m calling unpacking arguments. In these posts, I’ll go into a blog post in detail to break down the argument its making, its supporting points, and assess its reasoning.
Without further ado…
Clive Cook published an article in the Financial Times recently about how the “Democrats Must Learn [...]
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The Palin Post
I’ve written this post a couple of times now, coinciding
with each new major twist in the media narrative regarding VP nominee
Palin. As such, I’m not going to get too deep into any of these, but
I’ll briefly say what’s been on my mind.
First, I think the strategy to announce Palin on the
day of Obama’s speech [...]
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Unhelpful Words: Arugula
Welcome to the start of a new segment on the blog I’m going to call Unhelpful Words.
The idea? There are words that have infiltrated our political discourse that are entirely unhelpful in a policy-based context. They provide no substance, context, or otherwise about the political figure the word refers to. At best, one might say [...]
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On Truth
I’m afraid I’ve succumbed a bit to that inner hater that keeps Jay Smooth from ever getting his work out. But, today I’m going to push past it and put out some things that have been kicking around my head for a while.
First, I’ve been thinking a lot about truth. What is it? How do you know you have [...]
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If you’ve been following the news in the past few days, you’ll find multiple stories about the release of the new National Intelligence Estimate. Contrary to claims in the past, this NIE states that Iran is no longer seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and hasn’t been since 2003.
While the report has many important (and debatable) [...]
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