Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Category: Politics
I hate politics. I think that the realm of politics is filled with small-minded, overzealous corporate shills, and that the life expectancy of a person who goes into politics with any sense of honor or integrity (especially on a national level) is dangerously short. So I write very few posts that address politics at any [...]
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From the Columbia Chronicle: "Secret Service investigates Santanic [sic] Vampire". I’m not entirely sure what to make of the headline; all I can figure is that certain Latin rock musicians are recruiting legions of the undead to violently influence the political process. With "Likens", no less.
But law professor Neil Richards makes the most important [...]
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On the other hand, not everyone in the world is a schmuck.
Dean Kamen is not a schmuck. If the man who gave us the insulin pump and the Segway (commercially a flop but technologically brilliant) wants to turn his brilliant mind to the problem of delivering power and clean water to the underdeveloped populations [...]
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In which I expound on cynicism, politics, science, and other random topics. Because I’m bored and unfocused.
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New Scientist magazine on 13 Things that Do Not Make Sense. This is a fascinating article compiling a list of thirteen apparent anomalies in our understanding of physics, chemistry, and cosmology. The author does a good job, I think, of reporting the anomalies without much editorializing, and certainly with no fanciful forays into non-scientific speculation. [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Category: Politics
In Scandalous Times, Bush Could Learn from Clinton
From the above referenced article: “With the White House shrouded in scandal, the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush’s political comeback is that he’s no Bill Clinton.” I find this amusing in light of the fact that part of his campaign presentation in 2000 was that [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Category: Politics
It’s election time, so all good Californians who haven’t already voted by absentee ballot should get out there and vote today. And because I know you’re dying to learn what my opinions are, here they are:
Proposition 73: No. It sounds good, on some levels, but I oppose it for a couple of [...]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Category: Politics
McCain vows to add torture ban to all major Senate legislation
See, I’ve been saying all along that there are indeed Republicans in the government that act with honor and actually want to do what’s right and what’s best for our country. Too bad none of them are in the White House.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Category: Politics
Denny Hastert, Speaker of the House, has just started a blog. Interesting. In it, he says, referring to the blogosphere, “This is the future. And it is a new way for us to get our message out.”
Reading his first entry, it seems to me that this actually is the Speaker of the House [...]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Category: Politics
Texas Court Issues Warrant for DeLay
About time. It doesn’t really mean all that much and it’s not as though he’s a fugitive from the law or that an APB has been issued, but it still feels awfully gratifying to say, “Arrest warrant issued for Tom DeLay”. The entire bunch ought to be arrested [...]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Category: Politics
One of my favorite science fiction writers and pundits, David Brin, has an interesting post which, in addition to vehicle design for the military and his annoyance with gerrymandering, talks about the purging of the officer corps in the modern military. It’s worth a peek. I haven’t been seeing many examples of this [...]
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Crony Jobs
The employment market in Bush’s America.
Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: “Haunted House” by Elvira
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
Category: Politics
Senate adds ban on torture to bill
I knew there were some Republicans that I liked. It’s in times of crisis and conflict that sticking to our values as a nation becomes most important. If we sink to allowing our government to use torture, then we’ve already lost anything worth struggling for.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Category: Politics
Over on slingshot.org: Miers & Microsoft
Apparently, Miers once argued — successfully — that Microsoft customers who purchased faulty products that damaged their data were not injured in any way. This was back in 1995, when MS-DOS 6.0 caused some data compression errors. Microsoft offered an upgrade, MS-DOS 6.2, for $9.95. Customers who [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Category: Politics
Reuters AlertNet - Thousands protest U.S. war, econ globalization
From the article: “In addition to anti-war and anti-globalization groups, the demonstrations drew anarchists, communists and environmentalists.” I’ve heard right-wingers attempt to discredit the environmental movement by calling them “communists” in the past, but I don’t think I’ve seen this type of association in a [...]
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