Archive for the 'Politics' Category

VP Debate

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I found the VP debate streaming live at CNN.com last night, and so was able to watch it. It was actually a rather amusing experience, because while I was watching it, I was also MST3King via text message with a friend of mine. Crooks&Liars live-blogged the debate, and here’s the transcript.
     I’m not going to do [...]

700 Billion Dollars, Part 2

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Jim Wright of Stone Kettle Station has a fantastic post about the bail out, and the hows and whys of the Wall Street Meltdown here. It’s well worth the time to read, and it’s nice to know that in my fumbling attempts at explanation to folks yesterday, I was getting it mostly right. Go, me.

Those [...]

700 Billion Dollars

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

So, I oopsed. Yeah, that 700 billion dollar bail out that passed? It didn’t pass. I plead lack of coffee. The House told the bail-out bill to go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut, and the stock market took a head dive, finishing up for the day 700+ points in the hole, and [...]

On The Republicans

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Wow. Shit week for McCain/Palin, huh? McCain suspends his campaign to go save the world from bad loans, leaving everyone else in America standing there saying — and I quote — “WTF, mate?” Seriously. I’ve been kicking this idea around in my head for days now, and I can’t figure out exactly what this was [...]

Roy Zimmerman Rocks My World.

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Sarah Palin

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

     Sarah Palin. Jesus. Several of the bloggers I read on a regular basis have suggested we just ignore the gal. She’s a non-entity, and doesn’t deserve the press she’s getting, so don’t play to it. That seems to be the gist of the argument. Last night, however, I got a short email from MrJames, saying, [...]

Half-Breed Muslin

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

     So, this guy, in Florida (natch), puts up a small, hand-lettered sign in his yard. The picture? That’s the sign. Yes. “Muslin”. I didn’t ‘Shop that. Read for yourself:
     Neighbors of Andy Lacasse said the sign, which reads “Obama Half-Breed Muslin [sic],” breaches the fine line between free speech and inappropriateness.
     ”I got nothing good to say [...]

Mark Day on Sarah Palin

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Odds & Ends

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

     he word of the day is “Fiction”, as in, I’m writing it. If you look to the right, you’ll note a new page under “Navigation”, leading you to the archive page for my serial novel, Black Alice. I’ll be using it to link to each chapter, so if you’re just showing up, you can use [...]

Diebold

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

     onestly, some days I don’t know why I bother voting.
     For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it’s finally coming clean. [...]