Category Archives: Alaska politics

The Daily Tweets, 2010-03-04: Sullygate

For other news stories & posts on this topic, see my bibliography on all things Sullygate. Here’s Dan Sullivan, described today at Mudflats as “Mayor/Trustee Hybrid” of Anchorage. I’m pretty ticked about what I called “insurance-gate” in my tweets… but … Continue reading

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Conservatives for Palin: A rich field of study for anyone interested in the practical application of intellectual dishonesty & logical fallacy

Rich Crowther’s posts at the Conservatives for Palin website do one useful thing, anyway: they provide great examples of the practical use of logical fallacy in public discourse.

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Conservatives for Palin & civility: Fairly unbalanced

Is it really a good thing to be complimented for “courage” by a blogger at the Conservatives for Palin website? Well, mainly it’s a lot of work. It’s nice to be called courageous, sure, but even better is to be represented honestly and in context.

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Progressives, civility, & Palin: Anatomy of an apology

A classic example of an apology that is not an apology, however much its author tried to make it into one.

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Progressive bloggers on Palin: Civility versus namecalling

Okay, so we don’t like Sarah Palin or her political views. But does that mean it’s good for us or the nation for us to exercise our free speech through namecalling & insults?

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Chuffed

I’m pretty darn chuffed that my blog was recognized by Phil Munger of Progressive Alaska for Best Investigative Reporting for 2009 among Alaska progressive blogs.

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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-18: The Book That Lied Day 2

Lots of tweets about Palin’s book; includes clips from the Daily Show & Colbert Report.

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Mea culpa: My post about Palin yesterday distorted what she said

Yesterday I wrote a post called “Palin adds a whole new definition of solipsism” based on two-sentence quote from her book Going Rogue. My interpretation yesterday, based solely on that two-sentence quote taken, was wrong. Therefore I am correcting myself here. I have also added notes of correction to the original post.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-17: The Book That Lied Day 1

The best things on the day Palin’s book is released? — Mudflats reads it; & so does Andrew Halcro. Also, words that begin with dw.

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