For the last several days, I’ve been woken up by an obnoxious blaring sound coming from just outside my window. A “colorful feature” of Taiwanese life is to blame– trucks with loudspeakers that drive around just to get their message out. Back when I lived in Guishan, these trucks were around all the [...]

Decades long defender of digital rights, Stanford Law School professor, Larry Lessig, has released a presentation in support of Barack Obama.

Ron Paul has finally climbed out of his previous obscurity. With more fourth quarter earnings than any other Republican candidate, a fierce independent campaign orchestrated by a former Google employee, and surprising support from a few rank and file GOPers, he’s a bona-fide top-tier candidate.
What’s more impressive to me, though, is that the other [...]

This, from the BBC:

Mr Rudd will focus on education, environment and the economy
Australia’s Prime Minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, has announced the make-up of his new Labor government.
He appointed Julia Gillard as deputy PM and education minister, and a former rock star, Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett, as environment minister.
Penny Wong becomes the country’s first Asian-born minister, [...]

Stupid in America is a 20/20 investigation into the failures of K-12 schooling in the US. John Stossel interviews a variety of teachers, students, parents and administrators in the US and in Belgium. It’s particularly interesting for me because I’ve experienced it from so many sides. I’ve been at all kinds of [...]

I really don’t know what words to put to these images I’ve been seeing over the last year. The videos speak for themselves.
This happened just this week at the John Kerry speech in Florida. The youtube poster is a bit of a sensationalist, but the MSNBC coverage is good.

I found this one on [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
…
“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and intentional breaches of the president’s authority,” he said.
USA Today.com- Obama: [...]

According to the US Federal Election Commission Selected Presidential Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly, current soldiers and veterans have contributed more money to Ron Paul than to any other presidential candidate, with John McCain coming in second amongst GOP candidates.
Military contributions for GOP candidates

Army
Navy
USAF
USMC
VET
TOTAL

Ron Paul
6975
7765
4650
1500
1250
22140

McCain
6225
6480
1570
1600
800
16675

Romney
2051
0
1500
0
1000
4551

Giuliani
1450
370
250
0
250
2320

Hunter
0
1000
0
0
0
1000

Richardson
50
750
0
0
0
800

Huckabee
250
0
500
0
0
750

Tancredo
350
0
0
0
0
350

Brownback
71
0
0
0
0
71

Thompson
0
0
0
0
0
 

This table expresses in dollars the total campaign contributions that [...]

Ron Paul’s speech was so popular that Google had to use an overflow room. What a crowd!
Google executive Elliot Schrage: “Usually I end up asking questions for about 20 minutes, half an hour, and then we open this up for questions from our audience here. I’m impressed to say we’ve never gotten so many [...]

This is great. My favorite Democratic candidate in the primaries, Mike Gravel, made it to the Colbert Report, and absolutely pwned Colbert!

Colbert: Let’s face facts. You’re a little bit behind in the polls. As a matter of fact, The USA Today poll has you running neck-and-neck [at 1%] with Someone else.
Gravel: Yes, but [...]