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Nothing to See Here – New Year/Old News edition

  • Andrew Cline at Rhetorica.net has been beating the drum about structural bias in the news biz for some time. In Call a Ph.D…., he notes a good recent example of the fairness bias at work.
  • Cory Doctorow goes off on the editor of Wired for said editor’s dimwitted take on DRM.
  • There’s a killer Flash animation at JPL that takes a look at the past year in Mars exploration.
  • Choose the Blue helps you support companies based on their political contributions.
  • A commenter to Juan Cole’s Informed Comment thinks that maybe war just doesn’t work anymore. James Wolcott provides more evidence.
  • This reported exchange between a congressional delegation and representatives of the Indian government is pretty chilling. The US represents only about 5 percent of the world’s population. Is it so hard to imagine that if the world wanted to avoid doing business with us, we might not have much say in the matter? (Road to Surfdom)
  • Are we really willing to become a nation that commits war crimes? (Washington Post, registration) What are we doing, for cryin’ out loud. (Washington Monthly) I mean, really, is this the United States of America? Land of the free, defenders of truth and justice? (Sid’s Fishbowl)
  • I think Digby’s right. The way to whup the Republicans next time is to call them on their shit.
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