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History vs. Hysteria: Right-Wing Madness Typical

Vice President Richard Nixon claimed that the new Republicans arriving in the White House "found in the files a blueprint for socializing America."

When John F. Kennedy entered the White House, his proposals to anchor America's nuclear defense in intercontinental ballistic missiles -- instead of long-range bombers -- and form closer ties with Eastern Bloc outliers such as Yugoslavia were taken as evidence that the young president was secretly disarming the United States.

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Before the "black helicopters" of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a "civil rights movement" had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would "enslave" whites.

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The federal government expanded mental health services in the Kennedy era, and one bill provided for a new facility in Alaska. One of the most widely listened-to right-wing radio programs in the country, hosted by a former FBI agent, had millions of Americans believing it was being built to intern political dissidents, just like in the Soviet Union.

Excellent historical perspective. In related news, only 53% of voters in Virgina, and only 54% in North Carolina, believe that Obama was born in the US.

Stop The Execution Of Troy Davis

Watch this with the sound off, but watch it.



Then go here.

Update: Amnesty International e-mail tells me the U.S. Supreme Court granted Troy Davis the chance to finally present crucial evidence in court that may prove his innocence.

Book: Notes From The Metalevel

Amazon

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Yikes

There are always people who want to kill the president. Generally speaking, they are politically marginalized, insane, and/or too incompetent to come close to achieving their ends. But in the past six months, people who would be inclined to do violence to our political leaders have been affirmatively embraced by the Republican Party and its messaging operation. It's as if there had been a 24-hour cable news channel in 1981 devoted to coverage of Jodie Foster, and what it would take for someone to get her attention...

Did extremists on the left adopt the same tone against Bush? Yes. And there is an element in this wingnuttery of the same sort of dispossessed rage and periodic venting that many liberals felt under the last administration. But it's different when that rage is being purposefully manipulated to (imagined) political advantage by the GOP. And it's different when there's actually a guy with a gun waiting for the president to show up.

Humanthesizer

Continuing Education

How To Choose A Web App Business Model



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How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself



Implementing Adaptive Web Sites using Machine Learning and Ajax

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The Meat Hydrant Event Horizon

The Meat Hydrant Event Horizon is a phase in the evolution of any social networking software - from e-mail and USENET to Facebook, Myspace, and now Twitter - in which communication patterns shift. The change occurs when newcomers flood some previously-valid means of communication with messages like "make your meat hydrant stornger." The meat hydrant, the milf-plunger, the giant one-eyed tubular salamander - it rears its ugly head sooner or later.

Actually, I said that wrong. Let me rephrase. The Meat Hydrant Event Horizon is not a phase in the evolution of any social networking software. It's a phase in the evolution of any social networking technology, whether electronic or not.

Consider: it is impossible for Congress to pass laws criminalizing junk mail, because the resulting lull in postal traffic would render thousands of postal employees redundant, and this would be incredibly politically unpopular even without the bizarre and horrifying tendency of disgruntled, recently laid-off postal employees to kill people with AK-47s. The Meat Hydrant Event Horizon hit the postal service before computers existed. It also hit the telephone, in the form of telemarketing, many years ago.

The Meat Hydrant Event Horizon is out to get you. It will penetrate your platform of choice and fill it to bursting with spam. Everyone who makes social software needs to ask themselves: how will you beat the meat hydrant?

Great Resumes

And of course Dewey's resume. And this.