September 16, 2008 – 03:01 am
It’s no secret that I am a supporter of Sen. Obama. I have donated to his campaign and I have unwavering faith that he will be a better president than Sen. John McCain.
It’s also no secret that I support a full withdrawal from Iraq. I once supported a rapid withdrawal, but on most days, I [...]
September 11, 2008 – 06:14 pm
A buddy of mine sent me the following email. I haven’t seen this particular email on Snopes.com yet, so instead of debunking it just for his benefit, I thought I’d try to do it for everyone’s.
The email begins:
Don’t dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska
National Guard– consider this.
Alaska is the [...]
September 9, 2008 – 08:00 am
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September 3, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Republicans! It’s not about commitment to America! We all understand that McCain is committed to America. It’s not about that! It’s about making wise decisions.
Of course, your argument — or I should say, Guiliani’s argument — about Obama’s votes of “present,” and how executives aren’t allowed to vote “present.” That’s a fair argument.
But the [...]
September 2, 2008 – 10:41 pm
I’m listening to former senator Fred Thompson’s speech right now, and as you would expect from a professional actor, it sounds pretty good. But here’s the thing. Along with the rest of the Republicans, he’s trying to make this election about “character,” with Sen. McCain’s P.O.W. experience as the ultimate benchmark of any question of [...]
August 29, 2008 – 01:13 pm
The Democratic Convention is over. Along with a slew of lesser names, we’ve heard from Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, and now, finally, the nominee himself, Sen. Barack Obama.
The Clintons
Let’s start with the Clintons. As much as I can’t stand her, Sen. Clinton’s speech was pretty [...]
August 2, 2008 – 10:38 pm
This is from Wikipedia’s explanation of Spacetime:
“The term spacetime has taken on a generalized meaning with the advent of higher-dimensional theories. How many dimensions are needed to describe the universe is still an open question. Speculative theories such as string theory predict 10 or 26 dimensions (with M-theory predicting 11 dimensions; 10 spatial and [...]
The state of Vermont has an anti-billboard law. We’re one of four states in the country to have such a law. It’s been around for 40 years, and as you might imagine, it passed under some controversy. Businesses wanted to advertise. Farmers wanted to lease their land to those advertisers. But a Republican — a [...]
April 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm
So, I was reading an article on Alternet this morning entitled, “We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil.” It’s basically a warning about peak oil, but near the end, the author, Mark Hertsgaard, writes:
Activists in scores of towns and cities around the world are trying to prepare their communities for the transition to a post-oil [...]
March 27, 2008 – 12:22 pm
In his Washington Post elections blog, Dan Balz writes:
Long before wrapping up the Republican nomination, McCain made clear that against either Clinton or Obama, he would cast the campaign as a contest between liberalism and conservatism. He has strayed from Republican orthodoxy at times in his career, and has irritated his own party repeatedly by [...]
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