Benjamin Harrison » Politics

Costal Élites in Smug Triumph

Benjamin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:03:53 +0000

Battleground For Your Heart

Benjamin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:33:03 +0000

I’ve been getting hella political on here, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid. Can’t be helped. My boy Nate just dropped another hilarious music video.

Joe the Plumber Attack Ad

Benjamin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:54:48 +0000

McCain Gets Barackrolled

Benjamin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:47:08 +0000

Watching Gustav

Benjamin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:13:32 +0000

I’m watching gustav on this website. And I’m reading about it’s strange potentiality in the politics here:

Now then — how could Gustav help the Republicans? Let me run briefly through four or five ways:

1. Allows McCain to Appear Magnanimous. By potentially delaying or canceling his “date” at the GOP convention, McCain appears as though he is giving something up to tend to the Gulf Coast. Sympathetic and neutral-to-sympathetic media outlets may view this as underscoring McCain’s “America First” theme.

and here:

“As long as we properly handle the Gustavication of the convention, it may be a positive,” said one GOP operative.

Viacom Sends Nastygrams to YouTube About Shit They Don’t Own

Benjamin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:42:13 +0000

The Consumerist has a piece about an indie filmmaker who discovered that Viacom was fraudulently claiming ownership of clips of her movie that she posted on YouTube. This is bonkers as it gives Viacom access to user information related to the content in question even though they have nothing to do with it, thereby totally validating fears people had about Viacom getting access to user information at all.

I have a friend who has been working for Viacom in their effort to identify which content is theirs on YouTube. Essentially, they have people on the payroll whose job it is to surf YouTube all day and log clips that are owned by Viacom. See where the potential for error comes into play? This kind of thing is basically a foregone conclusion.

Meanwhile, Lion’s Gate, unlike Viacom, is clearly not run by morons.

Hillary After NC

Benjamin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:50:41 +0000

I’ve tried to keep the politics off my blog here, but this is the most haunting clip of video I’ve ever laid eyes on, so I couldn’t avoid posting it. (ill doc)

Getting it right…

Benjamin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:50:12 +0000

Ever been mushing an idea around in your head for a while without figuring out what its ultimate form is going to be, and then someone comes along and spells it out and you’re like, “oh this is clearly what I was trying to articulate.” I’m super jealous of those people. I want to be those people.

Happy MLK Jr. Day!

Benjamin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:02:40 +0000

How awesome was that guy?

Going Globo

Benjamin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:25:28 +0000

I’ve been feeling massively apathetic about politics, basically since 2004, but more profoundly in the last year or so. The situation has seemed simultaneously so comical and dire that I haven’t had the stomach for it. I look at some of these front runner presidential candidates from the two parties and I can’t imagine how they’ve gotten any kind of enthusiastic support from anyone.

RU Sirius has lit what I think might be a beacon of light in the gloomy wilderness of national politics. He published two documents this week entitled The QuestionAuthority Proposal and The Open Source Party Proposal. They have me sort of excited, because for the first time in a long time I’m thinking about politics as practical and tangible, rather than the televised dog-and-pony vision of politics that we get from Washington, DC.