By Chad on 7/6/2008
I just thought the last line of this interview with Robert Reich was funny. I read it and thought, man, he’s exactly right.
Posted in Humor, Politics | Tagged Politics, republicans, Robert Reich |
By Chad on 2/16/2008
With the events of the last 3 weeks, we’re really looking at an interesting scenario for November. Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues to insist that it will court superdelegates to win the nomination, no matter the damage to the party, if she hasn’t won a plurality of committed delegates. It certainly doesn’t look at this point [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Clinton, Democrats, Huckabee, McCain, Obama, Politics, religious right, republicans, teddy roosevelt, third parties |
By Chad on 2/8/2008
Some of the brouhaha recently with Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize got me thinking. Scientists recently have taken to raising alarms in political circles and the public arena, no longer content to simply publish their findings in a journal and let our elected officials do the right thing with the results. There’s one main [...]
Posted in Politics, Religion, Science | Tagged Al Gore, Bill Nye, Creationism, evolution, global heating, global warming, Science |
By Chad on 10/10/2007
That’s really all I have to say.
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, conservatives, economy, Paul Krugman, religious right, republicans |
By Chad on 9/21/2007
Every time I read another article or column about Republican schemes to cheat their way into the White House, I get steamed. This time, I was reading Bob Herbert’s pair of columns from the New York Times (Sept. 18, Sept. 22). What’s sad is that nobody even cares anymore – we all just shrug and [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, criminal behavior, Democrats, dirty tricks, Lincoln, Nixon, recount, republicans, Swift Boat, teddy roosevelt, White House |
By Chad on 5/19/2007
Mark Helprin writes a rather disingenuous piece in the New York Times op-ed today, arguing that Congress needs to extend copyrights again, beyond the already-obscene author’s life plus 70 years. What if, after you had paid the taxes on earnings with which you built a house, sales taxes on the materials, real estate taxes during [...]
Posted in Politics, Software Libré | Tagged copyright, Disney, intellectual property, orphaned works, Project Gutenberg, public domain, Shakespeare |
By Chad on 8/22/2005
Being pro-war doesn’t make you patriotic, any more than being anti-war makes you unpatriotic. A century ago, we used the terms “hawk” and “dove” to describe those positions precisely because it is beyond insulting to use how you feel about a particular military conflict to pigeonhole you as patriotic or not. While I’m on the [...]
Posted in Pet Peeves, Politics | Tagged Iraq, patriotism, pet peeve, war |
By Chad on 6/1/2005
Alright, I’ve been sitting on this for three or four days now, and I can’t stand it anymore. Tom Cruise, take your Scientology and shove it up straight up your ass. (Oh, there I went and outed myself as an SP. Shoot.)
Posted in Movies, Politics, Religion | Tagged mental illness, postpartum depression, psychiatry, Scientology, Tom Cruise |
