John Oliver and the New Mojo of Energy Conservation

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Tuesday February 06, 2007 · 12:08 AM PST

2007/02/06 · 00:08

Skinny and bespectacled John Oliver's appearances on the Daily Show are one of my favorite barometers of the prevailing winds of the "unspoken"--that which is lurking on the edge of the cultural dialogue and which are about to emerge into becoming mainstream talking points. Oliver typically speaks his truth while at his most frantic. Last night (Monday Feb. 5) while standing in front of a green screen of the Eiffel Tower, Oliver fell into one of his patented guiltfests, in this case about his own energy usage. He thus pointed the way towards a topic that may be about to sweep through the national dialogue: "What are you doing to be a more responsible consumer of energy?"

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Thursday February 01, 2007 · 10:26 AM PST

2007/02/01 · 10:26

Why are Bush and co. so obsessed with how the insurgents in Iraq feel? Because they are weak, and this is the only card they can play--hoping to keep the enemy demoralized so that they will not act in a way that disrupts the neocon scenario.

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 2:01 PM PST

2007/01/26 · 14:01

Just when I was ready to start liking the Fort Collins Coloradoan again after its front page reporting of Marilyn Musgrave's vote against lowering student loan interest, they go and drop the ball on me big time.

As everyone is now aware, yesterday the U.S. Senate was unable to pass a minimum wage hike because the Republicans refused to grant cloture to the bill, insisting on saddling it with business tax break amendments.

But late afternoon on Wednesday the Republicans in the Senate went much farther than that, and actually introduced a counter-resolution that would eliminate the federal minimum wage altogether (Senate vote, see Bob Geiger's column here). Who introduced this groundbreaking legislation? None other than Fort Collins local boy Wayne Allard (R-CO), still in peak reactionary form as the defender of the wealthy hyper-elite.

Where was our local newspaper reporting on this bold legislative gambit by our local hero? Unfortunately, nowhere...

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 12:38 AM PST

2007/01/25 · 00:38

With all this snow left over from the storm last month still melting and refreezing in curious layers, my walks to work have me navigating through a pleasantly shifting glacial streetscape.

Last week during a stop in at Scharder's convenience store on College, my eyes glanced down at the metal newspaper rack by the counter. The bold headline above the fold rocks me:

"Musgrave votes against student loan legislation."

"Geesh," I think to myself, "things are getting bad for poor old Marilyn. Only two months since the election and the Coloradoan is already laying it on..."

Sure the issue in question was student loans, a topic you'd assume would play strongly in a university town like Fort Collins. But the Coloradoan never used to give a non-wedge issue like that much real play, especially if it embarassed the current office holder. Used to be that outside of campaign season, you could read the front page headlines of the Coloradoan for weeks on end and hardly see the name our Congresswoman. Her votes usually were not considered newsworthy enough to feature in such a prominent fashion.

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Tuesday January 23, 2007 · 1:32 AM PST

2007/01/23 · 01:32

Hillary Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn came out this week with a statement that the Edwards and Obama campaigns are "stalled, failing." This not only signals that Hillary is willing to go negative, but that she is willing to use the same truth-distorting projection techniques as the Republicans in order to win.

Any rational observer, even a Hillary supporter, would have to agree that Obama and Edwards are on a roll lately. Of course, if anyone it is Hillary who has been "stalled" and "failing." Her lead has deteriorated substantially in Iowa and New Hampshire. What to do? In this case the Republican antireason playbook calls for pre-emptive labeling your opponent with your own failings. The conservatives pull this kind of lie very well, and usually liberals let them get away with it. Now it's Hillary's turn to use this trick, and to show just what kind of politician she is...

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Sunday January 21, 2007 · 2:38 AM PST

2007/01/21 · 02:38

No, not for the 2008 Presidential race, although that scenario is of course possible.

Rather Obama vs. Brownback is the matchup that is driving the hardest core of the political dialog right now among the true believers on both sides...

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 7:24 AM PST

2007/01/19 · 07:24

Up here in Larimer County, things just took a particularly funny turn. As everyone knows by now, local boy and Colorado State alum Wayne Allard announced this week that he isn't running again, opening up a peach-juicy pick-up possibility for the Democrats in the U.S. Senate in 2008. Colorado is turning blue faster than a naked wingnut dropped onto what's left of the Greenland ice sheet...

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 2:50 AM PST

2007/01/18 · 02:50

As O'Reilly crumbles and melts, I can't help but feel a pang of regret at how I'm going to miss having him to kick around. Admit it: haven't you gotten some perverse pleasure lately, at seeing just how bad he could get, as he goes down the drain?

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Tuesday January 16, 2007 · 12:30 AM PST

2007/01/16 · 00:30

FoxNews is dead. It no longer drives the national conversation, as it did from 1994 until 2005. CNN, ever the loser of all loser networks, is morphing into FoxNews just as FoxNews is going down the toilet.

What on television is now weaving the postmodern "dreaming mind" of the Right Wing? Answer: 24. Keefer Sutherland is the real Educator-in-Chief, not George W. Bush. The nuclear weapon introduced this season is clearly a statement in support of the Iran War...

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Friday January 05, 2007 · 1:53 AM PST

2007/01/05 · 01:53

George Will's embarassing and ignorance-laden salvo against the minimum wage on the opening day of 110th Congress was a beautiful example of just how decrepit the faux intelligensia of the Right has become.

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 5:52 PM PST

2007/01/01 · 17:52

Today's piece in the Financial Times by Andrew Ward is a nice succinct summary of the pro-Jeb gameplan that we are going to be seeing unfold over the next year and a half.

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Saturday December 30, 2006 · 4:21 PM PST

2006/12/30 · 16:21

For George W. Bush, for the U.S. military, and for the United States as whole, the execution of Saddam Hussein presents probably the last best opportunity to leave Iraq in a manner that is clothed with any semblance of honor, pride, and dignity. Will Bush take this opportunity?

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