Destination Unknown Vox 2008-05-20T03:27:45Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd97050ce24cd5/tags/politics/ When the destination is a mystery, the journey is everything. Bloggers Unite: What America Brings the World tag:vox.com,2008-05-15:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500fae8b996e7000b 2008-05-15T15:49:19Z 2008-05-20T03:27:45Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Humanrightsbadge1 DICK Cheney "SO" Barack Obama *WE WILL NOT TORTURE! OR FARM OUT TORTURE!

Today is the day that many bloggers who do not usually spend their time writing about human rights issues make the choice to do so. The idea is that by spending this one day writing about human rights, they will reach many people with the issu...

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]]> All the Answers tag:vox.com,2008-01-03:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398ce42830004 2008-01-03T05:35:07Z 2008-01-13T13:10:46Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Someone told me today that I don't have all the answers, which was interesting even though I already knew that. It was interesting, because I don't think I give off that know-it-all vibe to most people. This was in the context of a political di...

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]]> Movie: V for Vendetta tag:vox.com,2007-12-30:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398ccdb020001 2007-12-30T05:42:23Z 2007-12-30T12:14:33Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

V for Vendetta

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and Plot I know of no reason Why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Set in the not too distant future, V for Vendetta is the story of a masked man who takes on a totalitarian r...

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]]> Ahmadinejad More Conservative than Conservatives? tag:vox.com,2007-11-22:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398c003f50004 2007-11-22T06:25:32Z 2007-11-23T13:41:36Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom An Iranian newspaper is doing something that seems unthinkable in Iran. It's criticizing President Ahmadinejad. That, in itself, is newsworthy, but check out the article on CNN. What's really amazing about this is that they are criticizing him ...

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]]> Meritocracy tag:vox.com,2007-10-29:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398b7ba7f0002 2007-10-29T04:58:36Z 2007-10-30T17:40:16Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yesterday, I posted about how a recent scientific study indicated that many people make their decisions between political candidates based on their first impressions of the person's competency, based solely on their appearance. As this logically...

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]]> Science: Elections Are All About First Impressions tag:vox.com,2007-10-28:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398b754350001 2007-10-28T04:23:53Z 2007-11-03T18:27:16Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bush_confused Mr. Bean

Synopsis of a Scientific American article today, "How to Win an Election: Make a Good First Impression (in Less than 250 Milliseconds)": A study by Princeton University researchers indicates that most voters make their candidate selections based ...

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]]> A Test for FEMA tag:vox.com,2007-10-24:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398b619060005 2007-10-24T01:54:30Z 2007-10-24T15:25:37Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Hundreds of thousands of people are now homeless in Southern California from the wildfires that continue to ravage that part of the state. This is a disaster of immense proportions, and one is put in mind of the evacuations and the chaos followi...

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]]> The Dark Side of Sunshine Laws tag:vox.com,2007-08-24:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500e398a0b98c0003 2007-08-24T02:42:44Z 2008-01-02T03:30:16Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The American people, as a whole, have two conflicting values right now concerning access to public records. On the one hand, they tend to agree with news outlets that public records should be highly accessible. In fact, the more accessible the ...

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]]> Book Review: America, the Book tag:vox.com,2007-02-19:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500d4141bd85d685e 2007-02-19T00:52:28Z 2007-02-19T18:08:51Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to

Jon Stewart, et al. This is very funny. It's written and designed like a High School social studies textbook, but it's all very irreverant. Here are some random excerpts: P. 35: [Under a picture of the Presidential Seal] Each incoming presid...

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]]> Climate Change tag:vox.com,2007-02-04:asset-6a00cd97050ce24cd500cd9710c30b4cd5 2007-02-04T23:41:08Z 2007-02-05T03:46:17Z Paxton http://paxblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The following was originally posted as a comment on another blogger's post about whether or not global warming is being caused by humans: There are still serious scientists that deny that global warming is being caused by humans. Damn few, but t...

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