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Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 08:00.

The Edwards blogger thing is unfortunate. I'm a big fan of Pandagon, I even tried to write their wikipedia entry, but some rightwing-nuts deleted it.

Haven't read Shakespears's Sister as much but I've enjoyed what I've read.

I think its clear the media is at fault here. As long as they consider conservative talking points news worthy this stuff is going to happen.

What I'm not so clear about is how to feel about Edwards campaign. I mean they should have had a better understanding of the blogosphere before hiring bloggers. Pandagon is very unapologetic, snarky, and honest about their views. That is what has made Pandagon such a great blog.

It is clear that the public and the media still isn't ready to "take the gloves off" when dealing with the topic of religion. They still want to treat it as special and unquestionable. That is too bad.

Until we are able to discuss and criticize these institutions openly and critically, those who do question we be ostracized.

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lefty said...

so, blogs just can't have wikipedia entries or just not ones from liberals?

what's the story there?

IrnBru001 said...

They can but the "rules" for entries about blogs are so subjective that unless it is a huge major blog they can be deleted by just a few people working together. While I think wikipedia is a great tool, some of the editorial rules don't make a lot of sense. Pandagon, even before this, was a pretty major blog, wining some awards, mentions by magazines and acknowledged by many major political orgs (which seemed to completely fulfill the requirements), but it takes only one person to start a "article for deletion" process and once moving its very hard to stop. It seems in retrospect I was totally right that it deserved an entry. : )

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Finally!

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 08:00.

Yesterday was a great day for the American worker and the American economy, as the House passed a long overdue raise in the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.

Bill Scher

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aroengbinang said...

Congratulations. Just for comparison that the minimum wages in Jakarta is now about $80 per month.

Kurt said...

Isn't it about damn time!

OTTMANN said...

You've got it totally backwards. Raising the mini-wage will do much more harm than good. Layoffs are coming, so instead of making less, they'll be making a trip to the unemployment line.

Of course dems want people to be dependent on government, so they throw out these little hikes knowing full well that it will have a negative effect on the companies and the economy, just like tax and interest rate increases do, usually leading to a recession.

Dems feel they'll be able to blame Bush for it. Fat chance. Unemployment under Bush is 4.4 percent, better than Clinton ever had.

Watch as unemployment rises to well over 9 percent in no time at all. Dems will attemt to blame Bush but every voter will know whos' really at fault.

So as usual, dems get it all backwards, then lie to cover up for their screw-ups, just like after 9/11. How many pages did Sandy Berglar steal?

Dems are dumber than crap... really!

Mike McGann said...

Evidently, the moron above forgot to read Adam Smith growing up, so let me explain why raising the minimum wage is good for the economy. There are two main reasons that the economy continues to be sluggish in many sectors: excessive wealth consolidation and excessive consumer interest rates (although health care costs are an increasing issue, too).

By raising the minimum wage (for the first time in decade) we put more money in the hands of people at the bottom of the economic chain, both those at minimum and those who will see raises to stay above minimum. Those people all spend their money.

While there might be a short-term uptick of unemployment, the long-term impact on the economy will be good.

At this point, the GOP just has to shut up about the economy: they've proven they can't manage it and they spend like drunken teenagers, cut taxes for the rich and then leave a mess for someone else to clean up.

Station Agent said...

Thank you Mike, I read Ottman and nearly choked.

Falling Through Time said...

You may have celebrated a bit early on this one. The Senate shot this out of the water today. Such a shame really. Can you image having to live off of $5.15 an hour? Just image...really think about how impossible that would be.