By Chad on 11/5/2008
I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, education, global warming, lunatic fringe, McCain, Obama, Politics, republicans, Science, talk radio, William F. Buckley |
By Chad on 10/12/2008
You know, I don’t care if the President is the smartest guy in the room. I don’t even care if he (or she) is in the top 5. But he damn sure needs to be smart enough to hire smart people, and he sure as hell needs to be smart enough to understand what they [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged elitism, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics |
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 5/12/2005
I’ve worked with a lot of people in the technology industry who think that technologists (engineers, scientists, IT workers) are, or at least should be, above politics. I’ve known lots of them who think they can engineer better lives for themselves and humanity without having to get their hands dirty. I think several things going [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged activism, big brother, civil liberties, Politics, Technology, U.S. Senate |
By Chad on 4/4/2005
I keep thinking I should write something about Pope John Paul’s passing, and I’m really at a loss for words. My feelings are somewhat a reflection of my deep ambivalence about my faith these days. On the one hand, I feel very proud of being a Catholic, and I am very passionate about the Pope’s [...]
Posted in Politics, Religion | Tagged Catholicism, Christianity, church, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Religion, republicans, Vatican |
By Chad on 7/12/2004
As the rhetoric gets louder and louder, with less and less connection to reality, I feel a responsibility to say – I was wrong to support the Bush administration in invading Iraq. It seems clear to me that the President was willing to claim whatever was necessary to justify our invasion, willfully misinterpreting (or flat-out [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bush, Democrats, Iraq, nation building, Politics, republicans, Taliban, Tony Blair, White House |
By Chad on 5/15/2003
I think it is absolutely hilarious that Texas House Democrats have fled the state to break quorum and stonewall a Republican majority that has prioritized a re-districting bill to put more Republicans in the U.S. House ahead of the state budget. What really makes me laugh is the way Republicans (especially ultra-conservative ones) are getting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Democrats, Politics, republicans, Tom DeLay, U.S. House, U.S. Senate
