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...follow campaign news, you'll see this cycle in action several times a day, with stories sprouting, blooming and dying like flowers in time-lapse photography. Breaking: McCain campaign worker assaulted! Has partisan anger gone too far? Let's ask the campaigns! Is media coverage of anger biased? Let's ask ourselves! Wait--story was a hoax! Never mind! Next...
What's more Partisan, shrill and exhausting than presidential politics? The eternal conflict between Microsoft and Apple, of course. While the race to the White House will, mercifully, be over soon, the decades-long battle between Macs and PCs--with the negative ads and trash-talking bigwigs--will persist until cockroaches inherit the earth. You think taxes are just a political issue? A few weeks ago, as Apple prepared to launch its new line of laptops, Microsoft execs were on the stump, criticizing what they call the "Apple tax," the premium consumers pay for Macs with the same power...
...study by the non-partisan National Partnership for Women and Families looked closely at the EEOC's figures for the decade between 1996 and 2005 and found that more than half of the complaints came not from the more traditionally chauvinistic mining or building trades but from five female-heavy industries: retail, services, finance, real estate and insurance. "One of the most ironic cases was that of a maternity store that had a policy of not hiring pregnant employees," says Jocelyn Frye, General Counsel for the Partnership...
Well-funded liberal interest groups will compete to rush their pet causes to the top of this agenda, while conservative groups will use these issues to rebuild their battered bases. Both presidential candidates have promised to lance the boil of partisan demagoguery in Washington, but for many of these interest groups, comity is bad for business. The fracturing of the media into a thousand voices - many of them strident - will further complicate the new President's efforts to deliver on the promise of a more civil way of doing the nation's business...
...What we take away from these instances of classically tragic political downfalls should not be that our government is necessarily the corrosive cesspool that Senator John McCain and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both tried to conjure for partisan ends. If we are to be disheartened, let it be because of the tendency in government to look after one’s own, and to ultimately spare offenders any meaningful repercussions...