http://www.kungfuquip.com Politics and Pop Culture With A Kick Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (cross-posted at Red State and The Next Right) The Politico today has a column penned by David All, a young GOP internet consultant, and Saul Anuzis, Chairman of the Michigan GOP. The column looks at the premise that the GOP is behind its Democratic counterparts online, and ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/the-gop-online-politics-and-internet-regulation/ David All and Saul Anuzis have an op-ed up over at Politico today.  It's just about the goofiest thing I have ever seen.  In it, the two claim that GOP opposition to Internet regulation is the reason we're behind in online politics.  It has to be about the wildest stretch ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/proudly-hiding-behind-free-markets-since-1970/ Shelbinator has a ridiculous little post up defending Rep. Capuano's braindead attempt to regualte YouTube for political speech.  Patrick Ruffini at The Next Right has a good post up calling out the frightening number of Dems trying to make this about partisanship. The fact is the whole thing is stupid.  Capuano's ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/culberson-capuano-and-the-struggle-for-relevance/ The LA Times has a slightly amusing look at the laudry list of candidates mentioned in the 2008 Veepstakes. "This list is getting so long that everyone's going to end up on it eventually," joked Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who has advised Obama on whom to pick. The list of people ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/im-withdrawing-my-name-from-consideration-for-vp/ Spent some time playing Guitar Hero last night and was reminded of the single most irritating part of playing that game.  It's not the fast fingering required for the expert level...  It's not the addictive nature of the game... The most annoying thing is the fact that every time I play, ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/damn-you-guitar-hero/ (cross-posted at The Next Right) Last week the Obama campaign released a list of states where it was going up with advertising - Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia. An odd grouping of states, no ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/obamas-playing-small-ball/ I recently wrote a post about the fact that someone punched Matt Stoller in the face, and suggested it might have had something to do with him accusing people of being racist at every opportunity.  Matt even weighed in and (correctly) pointed out that the post I had linked to ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/an-open-challenge-to-matt-stoller/ @KatieHarbath points me to Wordle, and interesting "printed word as art" sort of project.  It allows you to take a large block of text (this blog post, for instance) and it will convert the phrases into a word cloud based on their relative frequency of usage.  You can mess around with ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/of-political-wordles/ If you're into really good music, regardless of genre, you owe it to yourself to check out Rodrigo y Gabriela.  As a couple of metal heads from Mexcio, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero drifted to Dublin, Ireland and began playing high energy Spanish influenced guitar.  They count among their inspirations ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/rodrigo-y-gabriela/ I've made comments on a number of occasions that I'm not sure whether I'll end up voting for McCain or Bob Barr.  When I have, I have received DMs via Twitter, e-mails, and text messages with much the same comment, "If you vote for Barr, you're just giving the election ... http://www.kungfuquip.com/enough-of-your-warnings-about-third-party-spoilers/