Thanks to Mike for pointing out this video to me. Although I’m sure I’ll see it on the Daily Show soon. Paris Hilton rebutts the McCain campaign advertisement.
Category Archives: Politics
What the Hell do I know?
The Mortgage Crisis™ and the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout™ and their confluential conflagration are a great example of policy being set by politics, ideology and the media. Why? Because not 1% (and I bet less) of the people who are involved have a single clue about the pros and cons of a government bailout. All …
Whiny Brats
Now hear this! Everyone who was a died-in-the-wool, rabid, gung-ho, balls-to-the-wall Hillary Clinton Supporter! If you do not vote for Barack Obama in November, you are directed to turn in your brain because you will no longer be needing it. I keep hearing news stories of Clinton supporters who are vowing to stay home or …
"Geopolitical"
“The Chairstone recognizes the distinguished Schist from E-stone-ia” I was listening to NPR on the way to work this morning and realized that I had no idea what the term “geopolitical” really meant. You hear it all the time in discussions of world events and foreign policy. After checking the definition (“The study of the …
Sean Tevis for Kansas State Rep
I was alerted to Sean Tevis’ state representative race in Kansas through BoingBoing. At the risk of sounding shallow, his website is so cool I sent him $10. Of course, he’s also running under a platform I would support, so that helps.
Blogging the Election
With only four and a half months left to go in this interminable election cycle things have become quite amusing for those of us who don’t listen to the news on TV and get most of our updates from the web. I present, for your entertainment, Why You Should Vote for Barack Obama: Barack Obama’s …
Political Action Spam
I’ve been spammed by a political contribution aggregator named ActBlue1. Hello Fundraiser! Thanks again for creating a fundraising page to support Barack Obama. Now that you’ve spread the word and hopefully have contributions rolling in, we’d like to show you how to track your progress. As a page creator, you can see who has contributed …
Wikileaks
I do hereby officially chastise all of my more-vocally-activist friends for not alerting me to this site: Wikileaks. Or, I suppose it’s possible that they didn’t know about it either, in which case I chastise them for not having known about it before now. Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking …
Tax Day, 2008
Today is TurboTax’s day of reckoning. Will they burst their servers’ seams like last year or will they weather the storm? We shall see. That is my introduction the day’s topic of discussion: Taxes. As an American who proudly states that I live in one of the best countries in the world1, I really don’t …
Barak vs. Hillary
I confess that I was looking at the Texas primary from an extremely shallow point of view. My thought was, “Which would Texas Dems want least in the White House? A Black, or a Woman?” I figured that they would prefer a black man over a woman of any stripe, but obviously I was wrong. …