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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

2012 = 2006?

…that one failure got people to look at other failures. And the sacrifices didn’t come from there. After the 2006 election, Donald Rumsfeld resigned. There were rumors it might happen…

Seasonal Posting: NYTFail, Part 2

…people bought VA Linux at $100 a share, and the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld axis decided to run a two-front war in Afghanistan and Iraq. With statements similar to Norris’s: In reality, the…