Category

straw polls

• imperial watch, straw polls

  Yea, that’s right! That’s right! We bad!

  01.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The assumptions nested in our electoral punditry are astounding. What’s more astounding is that we do not question them, especially when they barely conceal true, noxious racialist thinking. Why, for instance, is Don Imus a pariah, when Dick Morris and Chris Matthews can proceed without pause with lines of questioning based on the assumption that [...]

• imperial watch, straw polls

  Omerica

  01.06.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  The media’s pontificating talking heads and some sorry campaign managers trying to pull their candidates from the muck have got it wrong. They’re obsessing over the difference between two abstractions: change and experience, assuming those labels define the persons to whom they’re applied, and the voters enthusiastic about voting for them. True to narrow-casted [...]

• homistan, straw polls

  Hearts and Mind Department

  12.21.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Ahistoricality kindly drew my attention to a recent poll on attitudes towards US, UbL and Terrorism in Pakistan in the wake of the October Earthquake undertaken by Terror Free Tomorrow. The poll was conducted over November 14-28, 2005 and has a error margin of 2.6%. It has a significant data pool [1450 adults]. Here is [...]

• straw polls

  Popularity Contest II

  01.18.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  My humble thanks to all those who voted for me in the Brass Crescent Awards as deserving of wider recognition. I can only say that while fame will inevitably bring the coke, the hookers and the Behind the Blog retrospective, I will never forget those that have sustained me in my humble beginnings. Commentators like [...]

• straw polls

  Popularity Contest

  01.09.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  “I haven’t had an orthodox blog, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
  With heartfelt thanks to those who voted and with apologies to Sally [...]

• straw polls

  C’est Meme Chose

  11.03.04 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I walked out this morning and the sun was shining. I felt better. The wind was clear and crisp. I felt better. I cried all night - big searing, gulping sobs - I cried in my sleep. Ever have those dreams where you want to wake yourself up by screaming? I tried last night but [...]