Apologies to Joao Silva/New York Times for using their photo. But look: American soldiers walking past a spray-painted blast wall in Al Awad, Iraq, yesterday. The first time I voted in a presidential election was in the 2000 election. I was a senior in college in New Hampshire. I voted absentee in Alaska. Before election [...]
The press is so totally in the tank for the Obama-Biden ticket. “My homeboy”? What kind of an example does this set for young journalists? Adorable. He did a good job. But I kept worrying that this would turn into a segment from a program called Wonder Showzen: Beat Kids.
The good folks at China Digital Times have pointed us to a documentary by Chen Weijun about an experiment in democracy in Chinese grade school. It’s an amazing piece. With all the electioneering and scheming, you eventually forget that you’re watching a bunch of eight-year-olds in a (nominally) Communist country. Here’s the YouTube intro: In [...]
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