Posted by Jed Lewison on Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 11:57 PM Pacific

A day off...

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm going to be off the grid tomorrow (Friday), leaving the blog in the hands of debrazza, who will be guest blogging in my place. (I'll be back Saturday, but I'm also taking off a couple of days next week -- Tuesday and Wednesday -- and debrazza has agreed to keep things going then as well.)

Before I "sign off" there's a few items that I had meant to get to today:

Sam Wang (the Princeton University neuroscientist who goes by "mindgeek" at Daily Kos) wrote another extraordinarily interesting essay about the neuroscience of false beliefs. It's an absolute must read for journalists and political communications professionals, particularly those who cover or work for Barack Obama. (His work inspired my post about the AFL-CIO's excellent mailer on who Barack Obama is, a mailer that debunks smears against him without reinforcing them.
Did I mention Professor Wang's essay is an absolute must read?
There's a new chapter in the never-ending saga of "what the heck is John McCain's position on taxes." Now he's returning to the 'I'm against it, but everything is on the table' position.
Speaking of John McCain and taxes, AMERICAblog's John Aravosis had some incredibly kind words to say about me and my video on McCain's confusing position. So let me say thanks to John, not just for what he said, but also for the support that both he and Joe Sudbay have given to this blog from the very beginning. (And just for the record, I write and edit my material in a home office next to my kitchen -- no basements here in Vegas.)
This probably isn't relevant any longer, but I wish that I had mentioned it during the Landstuhl debate: John McCain used images of him and David Petraeus in fundraising mailer just a couple of months ago. Even McCain ultimately admitted it was wrong of him to politicize that active duty military.
For those of you who recommended I get a Mac after my BSD experience, allow me to recommend to you "The 'Mojave Experiment.'" It'll be sure to generate a thousand platform flame wars, and feel free to let it rip in this thread!

Before I "sign off" there's a few items that I had meant to get to today:

Sam Wang (the Princeton University neuroscientist who goes by "mindgeek" at Daily Kos) wrote another extraordinarily interesting essay about the neuroscience of false beliefs. It's an absolute must read for journalists and political communications professionals, particularly those who cover or work for Barack Obama. (His work inspired my post about the AFL-CIO's excellent mailer on who Barack Obama is, a mailer that debunks smears against him without reinforcing them.
Did I mention Professor Wang's essay is an absolute must read?
There's a new chapter in the never-ending saga of "what the heck is John McCain's position on taxes." Now he's returning to the 'I'm against it, but everything is on the table' position.
Speaking of John McCain and taxes, AMERICAblog's John Aravosis had some incredibly kind words to say about me and my video on McCain's confusing position. So let me say thanks to John, not just for what he said, but also for the support that both he and Joe Sudbay have given to this blog from the very beginning. (And just for the record, I write and edit my material in a home office next to my kitchen -- no basements here in Vegas.)
This probably isn't relevant any longer, but I wish that I had mentioned it during the Landstuhl debate: John McCain used images of him and David Petraeus in fundraising mailer just a couple of months ago. Even McCain ultimately admitted it was wrong of him to politicize that active duty military.
For those of you who recommended I get a Mac after my BSD experience, allow me to recommend to you "The 'Mojave Experiment.'" It'll be sure to generate a thousand platform flame wars, and feel free to let it rip in this thread!