Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Don’t drive to the voting station

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:15:25 -0700
Driving my car As I mentioned yesterday, tomorrow will be the day that gazillions (hopefully!) of South Africans visit their local voting stations to put their cross on a ballot and cast a vote for a political party… or I guess in many cases, against a political party. Whichever party you fall into, why not do as Kerry-Anne and I will tomorrow? Don’t drive to your voting station, but walk instead! You’ll (a) avoid possible traffic, (b) get some exercise, and (c) have a chance to walk ou

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The Atlantic On Breaking America’s Ogliarchs

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:02:35 -0700
The Atlantic has a thought provoking article from a former IMF official Simon Johnson about the current American economic crisis and compares it to other countries like South Korea that faced such as crisis before: The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically desc

Students Protest Mean-Spirited Commencement Speaker

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:51:05 -0700
The Tea Parties showed how conservative and libertarians could use new media to organize and promote their ideas. Now, Glenn provides us with an example of how conservative students are using the web to protest their school’s choice of a mean-spirited partisan to deliver a commencement address : About 130 American University students have signed an online petition of sorts asking the school’s administration to withdraw an invitation to Barney Frank, who is slated to deliver a commencement