I used to love politics. Reading about it, talking about it. It was something that always fascinated me, and I couldn’t get enough. The bug bit me in college, where I majored in Poli Sci and had countless debates about privatizing schools or tax schemes or isolationism or immigration policy or whatever. Fast forward 13 [...]
Category Archives: Politics
C.R.E.A.M
June 26 11
Cash Rules Everything Around Me Missouri… In a previous post, I looked at how much of a projected deficit each state has. The Show Me State is projected to be in the red $704 million. Since we’ve got 5,988,927 people, that’s about $117 per person. Would you pay extra to eliminate your state’s debt? Or [...]
Liberals = Debt?
June 25 11
A co-worker recently made a claim to me that our country’s most financially busted states were also the most liberal states, and went on to say that the liberal ideology is what put them into their debt-laden situations. I didn’t know if these claims were true or not, so I decided to do some research. [...]
WikiLeaks Documentary
December 21 10
SVT is the national broadcaster of Sweden, similar to the UK’s BBC. They put together a documentary on Wikileaks; and it’s a very comprehensive, if not slightly sympathetic, look at the organization and who is behind it. I recommend watching. Fullskarm is Swedish for Fullscreen, apparently. And despite the video player’s controls, this documentary is [...]
Vote Early, Vote Awesome
October 30 10
I voted today. My state has mandatory vote-by-mail for all citizens, so we received a ballot a few weeks ago and it gets dropped off in one of many white “vote here” mailboxes all over town. Seems like a good idea, at least in terms of voter participation. Definitely negates the need to call for [...]
Health Care Reform = Welfare?
March 21 10
We have a huge national debt. Clinton balanced the budget, then Bush unbalanced it. Obama is taking it even further down the red line because of the “spend your way out of a recession” strategy. And now he threatens to take it even further, at least in the short term, with health care reform. So [...]
Drugs are expensive
August 22 09
That’s a picture of the prescription that I picked up earlier this month, the same one that I’ve been taking for about 4 years now. It’s a one month supply; 360 little pink pills crammed into one translucent orange bottle. And it’s generic, too. A Czech-made knockoff of the brand name produced by Novartis. So [...]
Change Congress
June 13 09
Change Congress is worth supporting. It’s an effort to reduce corruption in Congress resulting from the influence of special interests. The founder of the effort is Larry Lessig, who also founded Creative Commons. And though Lessig partnered with traditionally Democratic consultant Joe Trippi to produce Change Congress, it is still very much a non-partisan effort. [...]
F-350
March 4 09
While driving to Target today, I found myself waiting at a light behind a large red Ford F-350 pickup truck. Being a pretty tall truck, I could barely see over the lift gate to the cab window. But I could see, thankfully, and what I did see was ridiculous. On the left side of the [...]
Universal Health Care
February 28 09
Why is universal health care such a politically poisonous idea? Does America really believe that it’s “socialism” and we’d all end up waiting for hours at government clinics for the only MRI machine in the city? What about public schools or public mail? Those seem pretty “socialist”, but nobody seems to care about that. Or [...]