Originally shared by Lissette Carlo

Originally shared by Lissette Carlo

I'll go with what Bill Maher said the other day which I'm totally behind.

You have a choice between the fish or the chicken.

If the fish isn't available then you opt for the chicken.

Because no matter what #Hillary2016 or #Bernie2016 is a whole lot better than the #GOP choices.

And if we get Hillary, that's 2 for the price of one. Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton

Originally shared by James Allan

Originally shared by James Allan

Kinkaku-iji Temple, Kyoto January 2015 during the heaviest snowfall for 60 years

Originally shared by Andrew Pam

Originally shared by Andrew Pam

Great article on the pervasive issues of the "attention economy".
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/

Originally shared by Susan Stone

Originally shared by Susan Stone

quote: I don't know how Clinton would be as a public President, with all the mix of engagement, charisma and circumspection that involves. But showing how she might be as a private president, a Situation Room president, I think it was perhaps a transformative performance. When I watched my thought was, Wow, she'd be rock solid. Granular and detailed is seldom spell-binding. But over the course of the endless testimony, anyone who had the slightest sense that Clinton had been some sort of figurehead Secretary of State who left the key work to subordinates would have been thoroughly disabused of that notion.

Clinton's time under questioning sent a number of messages. One was simply the scope of her knowledge and experience that made her questioners look increasingly insipid and small. But there was also a simple toughness and resilience under pressure. She knows her stuff and she's a pro. You could not watch that testimony and not come away with that conclusion. This engagement gave her a live telecast opportunity to demonstrate that fact, which is almost invaluable. It is very difficult to imagine any of the Republican presidential candidates - even the ones serving in the Senate - able to roll with that kind of questioning or show the range of knowledge and clarity that was required to do so.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/long-twilight-struggle

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo

This is the first evidence I trust showing Jeb's campaign truly is crumbling. I had thought that the continuous flow of "establishment" money would keep his campaign going like the Energizer Bunny until most of the rest simply ran out of steam.

But the inability of that money to shift poll numbers is evidently taking its toll.

What does this mean, in the big picture? What if Trump or Carson continue to ride high into the nomination, despite the fact that the big money donors hate them? Maybe this heralds a new era of democracy, where big money and TV ads don't have the sway they used to.

Who is driving this? I think it's the right wing base of primary voters who are highly engaged in political news. These are not "low information" voters, but rather voters who lap up "information" from right wing media such as WND, Drudge, Blaze etc...people who may often find even Fox News too "liberal" or "lamestream media". Fox News can try to push the establishment candidate onto them, but they now trust alternate political news sources more than FNC...alternate sources which are harder for the establishment elite to control.

I think we're seeing a demonstration of what an "informed" electorate can do. That these voters are basically living in a weird reality denial bubble makes for an interesting experiment (albeit one which we can't just dispassionately observe because the consequences are dire).

I am generally skeptical of the idea that the Internet is capable of radically changing the balance of power when it comes to money in politics. But I'll be delighted to be proven wrong about that...

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-orders-across-board-pay-cuts-on-campaign-215106
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-orders-across-board-pay-cuts-on-campaign-215106

Originally shared by ****

Originally shared by ****

Yay science:

Bernie and Hillary are friends

Bernie and Hillary are friends

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/30/4-reasons-to-think-hillary-clinton-got-bernie-sanders-to-run-in-2016/
http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/30/4-reasons-to-think-hillary-clinton-got-bernie-sanders-to-run-in-2016