Award Winning Blog - Agitator

Who Deserves The Credit?

We at The Agitator consider ourselves determinedly independent when it comes to politics, so we won't weep if a few progressive Republicans were elected here and there across America yesterday (though we're hard pressed to think of any … maybe Arnold). That said, we can live with the Dems winning control of the House, and […]

Learn More November 8, 2006

Still Waiting for the Revolution

Today, as voters go to the polls and we await the returns of the mid-term elections, others are already hard at work strategizing, politickin' and prognosticating about the forthcoming 2008 presidential campaigns. Yesterday's release of the Pew Research Center's study tited “The Internet and Politics: No Revolution, Yet” is great food spiced with a a […]

Learn More November 7, 2006

Reprieve for Postage Meters

Ginger Stickel, like most Americans, has been getting a lot more junk mail these days.” Thus reads the lead in a New York Times piece headlined “Junk Mail is Alive and Growing”. Ahhh, music to my ears. Remember back just five years when so many industry pundits predicted that the internet and e-marketing meant the […]

Learn More November 6, 2006

Meet Youthful Passion – Mary Joyce

How refreshing it is to “meet” Mary Joyce, the latest “Person of the Week” from Politics Online. Mary's short career began in 1999 as a high school volunteer for the Bill Bradley presidential campaign. But her true love — using digital technology to empower citizen activism in developing world countries — seems to have been […]

Learn More November 5, 2006

Er … Hats Off To Hooters?

Hooters (yes, that Hooters) just announced that the Gulfport (MS) Hooters was the top restaurant in the 430-location chain’s annual fundraising campaign on behalf of breast cancer research. The campaign overall raised about $135,000 from customers, to which corporate Hooters added another gift of $500,000. Not a bad day for breast cancer research. Kinda gives […]

Learn More November 4, 2006

We’re In It For The Money

In a wonderfully refreshing, if somewhat immodest manner, Bank of America is touting what it calls “the initial reults of the most comprehensive survey to-date of the philanthropic behavior of of weathy Americans.” The survey, conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and paid for by Bank of America, reflects the opinions of […]

Learn More November 3, 2006