Tag: protest
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Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves and Get to Work
Like so many of you, I am in deep despair. I cannot believe that we will spend the next four years with a foul-mouthed, thin-skinned, misogynistic, race-baiting demagogue as our President. I cannot believe that he won over a highly-qualified, well-respected stateswoman who had more job experience than any non-incumbent in recent memory. I cannot…
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More Thoughts on Third-Party Voting and Game Theory
I got a lot of pushback on the last thing I wrote about the “Bernie or Bust” movement, so let me try again to explain why, rationally, it makes no sense to vote third party within the current system. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, skip to the end, where I link…
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So You’re Gonna Vote Third Party, Huh?
I posted a link to this Slate article on my Facebook page today, and got an interesting reply from a friend (name withheld since the post wasn’t public): Trump would mop the floor with her in a General election based entirely upon the attacks he’d use that Sanders has not. There is that email thing…
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Pet Peeve #3
People, especially lawmakers, who think the flag is more important than the things it represents, like say, the Constitution.
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Pet Peeve #1
People who think “Support Our Troops” means supporting the President no matter what he does to put our troops’ lives in danger.
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The Politics of Teaching
So I was reading Excite News today, and I came across this story, about two teachers in Albuquerque who were suspended for putting anti-war posters in their classrooms. About 45 students walked out in protest, and 4 were arrested for refusing to go back to class.