Levers and Pulleys

Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post.
On July 19th it was demonstrated that the Cheshire Herald web poll allows participants to vote repeatedly without detection. Two days later a staff member acknowledged the problem.
Unfortunately, The broken poll continues to run without modification, and the disclaimer printed in the recent issue remains […]

Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post. I’ll often be doing that. This is still my primary blog for local or political issues. The CTP is an open forum for everyone, and over there I’m just another poster (or, I will be once people get used to writing their own posts).
Two days […]

Please drop by to visit, and register for, The Cheshire Town Post . It’s an open forum where residents provide all the content. Councilman Tim White’s blog, Tim White Listens, has done a great job of bringing Cheshire together for discussion. In that tradition, I am hosting the Cheshire Town Post in order to provide […]

Last night, I read a post over at Crooks and Liars that linked to a piece written by a young Iraqi blogger. I broke down before I finished reading. I’m not forwarding you there to push guilt or to convince you that re-deployment out of Iraq is the only sane or moral choice left (although […]

Cheshire, we’re getting screwed.
A handful of local developers have stitched themselves into the political fabric of this town. For years they’ve used their pull to shape Cheshire as one might design a product or grow a brand. People have come for the schools, the very visible and very charming pockets of farmland, the tree-lined low-crime […]

It’s always dicey to point to a date, but that’s what the Russian media has done. Foreign papers are carrying this story along with a handful of bloggers, but I haven’t heard a peep from the corporate media here. We’re in the middle of a show of force as we begin our war games in […]

I’m sick of consolidated corporate media bowing to the dollar while the country goes to hell for a lack of information. For hours MSNBC ran this headline (It’s also the current cover of Newsweek (in the U.S. at least)):

I ranted about this already on my art blog, but I think there’s reason enough to repeat:
Right […]

The accents are a joke and I’m not quite sure if the overacting was intentional, but Disney’s 1992 box office failure Newsies warrants some renewed attention. It’s very loudly pro-labor. The movie was inspired by the NYC Newsboys strike of 1899 when homeless newsboys organized to take on media giants Pulitzer and Hearst over a […]

On the day US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that George W. Bush and Michael Hayden violated the constitution with their warrantless wiretapping the press was in a frenzy. Unfortunately, the hysteria was over the arrest of the suspected killer of JonBenet Ramsey, an operation performed with an assist from, oddly enough, Homeland […]