Category Archives: Framing

Mario Cuomo Was Wrong: You Govern in Poetry

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Gov. Mario Cuomo once said, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Well, a kiss-and-tell column by former Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren has been making the rounds. It’s a very good encapsulation of the Republican political and governing … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Framing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Anti-Vaxxers and the Lizard Brain

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Humans are stupid.
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Posted in Framing, Vaccination | 3 Comments

On Genetic Denialism

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Explaining heritability isn’t easy.
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Posted in Framing, Genetics, Genomics | 6 Comments

Click-Throughs, Advertising, and Branding Versus Point-of-Sale

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

If Internet publishing is to be lucrative, it has to figure out how to viewed as an effective branding tool as opposed to a point-of-sale mechanism.
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Posted in Economics, Framing, Internet, News Media | 2 Comments

A Nation of Deluded Dependents: An Effect of Our Toxic Discourse

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

Willful ignorance by definition: decent, hard-working people don’t receive government aid, even when they do.
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Framing | 13 Comments

Tax Cuts Won’t Help You, but a Wage Increase Will

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

Rephrasing ‘high’ taxes as a problem of low income.
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Posted in Economics, Framing, Taxes | 3 Comments

When Hippies Punch Back

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

“Liberals and bloggers feel like we’re the girl you take under the bleachers but won’t be seen with in the light of day.”
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Posted in Democrats, Framing | 4 Comments

Anger, Feeling, and Framing: The Lance Mannion Edition

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

Anger is the appropriate emotion. Do our political ‘betters’ understand that?
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Posted in Democrats, Framing, Fucking Morons

Why Democrats Always Lose the Rhetoric War: The “Amerian Taliban” Kerfuffle

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

Politics is not a debate club. And the stakes are much higher.
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Posted in Democrats, Framing | 5 Comments

A Question for Alterman About Breitbart

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

Why is calling an awful person, well, awful, a bad thing?
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Framing, Housing | 3 Comments