There was an interesting piece in the Fashion section of the NYTimes this Sunday that is a little weird but it gets into some pretty fun stuff.
The piece follows a kid from Brooklyn who is hell bent on becoming an organic farmer. Trucker hats, Carhartts, and Pabst were the fashion but now some are putting the heart behind the fashion and finding the funk in farming.
"The Billyburg scene has changed, said Annaliese Griffin, who contributes to a blog called Grocery Guy. "Having a cool cheese in your fridge has taken the place of knowing what the cool band is, or even of playing in that band," she said. "Our rock stars are ricotta makers."
The same is true for Sarah Love, an Oklahoma University political science graduate and sometimes young Clay Pope a former DC staffer turn conservation lobbyist who have formed an organization that helps farmers become more environmentally friendly and companies to offset their carbon emissions.
The Kansas Second Congressional District race just started to get a little more interesting. And a whole lot more snarky. BoydaBloc has posted a great video that captures the recent excitement.
So... what happened was that State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins (CPA) has been getting some extra dough to promote her program that helps parents begin saving money for their kids to go to college. Its a state sponsored college savings plan. She's state treasurer. The ad is paid for by American Century Investments. According to a KTKA report, they spent nearly $429,000 on putting this ad all over the place.
I just had to tell ya'll about this because its something that makes me crazy.
Last year around Christmas time - the Kansas GOP sent out what I'm sure they thought was a normal everyday fundraising email. What they mistakenly did was talk about all the great work they are doing and talked about their Vote Caging program.
So CNN reported a story that is just wrong. Watch the video here and I wanted to go through and talk about all of the points that Carol Costello raises.
But first let me say that I am so exhausted from this kind of crap. It is so ridiculous that today reporters won't use the valid information they can get from a simple google search. There is no excuse for this kind of reckless journalism. It makes me think that perhaps it isn't that they get it wrong its that they WANT to report a specific story about young people and they want to fit the research to that story.
What a lot of people don't understand is that when you get stats like this wrong - it impacts campaigns, consultants, and candidates. It makes them think that they should not be targeting young people.
When they don't target young people they don't get young people to go out and vote.. so it perpetuates the fallacy.
Further it makes candidates have to get more republicans to vote for them which influences their policy. So basically, they have to be more conservative in their votes and the bills they push because they think that is representative of their district... when in reality... it might not be.
These things impact us at levels that go beyond turnout and elections it goes to the very laws that we are passing and the votes cast in Congress.
Dean's speech addressed some of the major issues to the blogging community such as Electronic Voting and the safety of the ballot as well as addressing the value of the YouTube debates and brining voters into the debate process for the 2008 Presidential candidates.
But one thing he addressed that did not receive a huge amount of applause and I'm sure turned a few heads was his admission that he has been meeting with and discussing issues with some of the major pastors of mega churches across the country.
After the repeated attacks on bloggers that we've seen on FoxNews shown to us on BraveNewFilms and what they've spent the week leading up to YearlyKos talking about on O'Reily (which I've been subject to by some nutbar who changes the station at my gym).
I've also been watching something else going on all week. Something very contradictory the "Liberal Bloggers" and "Liberal Media" accusations that Bill and his buddies at Fox seem to throw around so freely.
