Thursday, June 26th, 2008
James Mills found this photograph. Eric Adolff (aka Buzz Killington) -- failed musician turned graffiti hunter -- took it in Denver. At first view it's just another example of great Obama street art. If you look a little more closely, though, you'll notice that the quotation isn't what Obama ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Libertarians held their nominating convention last weekend in Denver, CO. They picked, as their candidate, former Georgia Republican representative Bob Barr. Apparent Libertarian Carlos attended the convention and recorded the scene on the floor:
[is a brahmin / Flickr]
Much of the post-convention talk seems to center on whether or not Barr ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
[christopherl / Flickr]
The November voter-turnout rate for the under-30 crowd promises to approach the heights of the early 70s and the 1992 spike. The youth vote also continues its recent trend of tilting Democratic.
So how do engaged young voters think about Campaign 08? One "20ish year old" in Seattle, WA, ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
[Octoferret / Flickr]
This six-minute probutcool podcast episode from CU-Boulder in Colorado ties together two election issues: nuclear war and the environment. (Found by James Mills.) Michael Mills (no relation!), a research associate at the university's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, explains: A small, regional nuclear war could create a ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
[Sue Salinger]
I’m a media biz veteran transitioning mid-career into independent media and academia from Boulder, Colorado. This year I’m in the deep end researching my phd dissertation on Electronic Surveillance and Subjectivity for the European Grad School – THE place for critical theorists, media makers and philosophers of technology ...
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