This year, you might make up for the mess you made of the 2000 presidential election.

Don’t fail America again.

Filed under: politics, thoughts on August 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

Wikipedia has an image of a letter 12-year old Fidel Castro wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, wherein the future Cuban dictator asked the then-US President for $10 and offered him a sweet hook-up on quality steel for use in building ships.
Admittedly, his English was not especially good, as he mentioned in his [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

What began more than a decade ago with Florida’s landmark $11.3 billion tobacco settlement and subsequent (and successful) TRUTH anti-smoking campaign has become the Tobacco-Free Florida initiative.
Like the nation-wide spin-off of Florida’s TRUTH campaign, TheTruth, this new initiative is all about targeting teens, and therefore all about keeping up to date with social networking. [...]

Filed under: advertising, politics, technology on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts, 70-year old Harvey Ruvin, seems to have a, er, gift. Witness, as he raps about the dangers of global warming, war, and so forth:

Yes, that video was done by a 70-year old politician. He’s also up for re-election, and making the environment central to his campaign.
Apparently, his campaign is both [...]

Filed under: humor, news, politics on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

Gallup posted their latest polling results on overall U.S. satisfaction yesterday. Here is full story, and here is their chart:

The first thing I noticed looking at this chart was that, lo and behold, satisfaction increased during Ronald Reagan’s and Bill Clinton’s terms, and decreased during both George H.W. Bush’s and George W. Bush’s terms. An [...]

Filed under: politics, thoughts on April 15th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I came across this post, which basically said what I’d been thinking since Battlestar Galactica first started: that John McCain and Col. Tigh might just be the same man.
Let’s compare the two, shall we?

Col. Tigh
John McCain

Bald old dude?
Yes
Yes

Grilzzled war hero?
Yes
Yes

Tortured?
Yes
Yes

Has younger, blond wife?
Yes
Yes

Once-maverick, slipping in his old age?
Yes
Yes

Drunk?
No*
Yes

Cylon?
???
Yes

Those are just the similarities I can [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I happened across an clip from a George W Bush interview wherein he talks about the music he has on his iPod. Presumably, he has an iPod Shuffle as well, but that was not the model shown in the clip. At any rate, the bit toward the end was classic. Were it Jerry speaking [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on April 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

When George W. Bush’s presidency began, I was young enough for my complaints to be dismissed as stemming from my being young and inexperienced in life. Back then, I worried that the United States was approaching decline; that she could no longer support her people with the jobs needed to keep growing; that without immediately [...]

Filed under: politics, thoughts on April 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism. That’s right, the war on terror ain’t just for terrorists anymore! And it’s no longer a war either, it’s a struggle! Against violent extremists! So, when are we due to send troops to kill off every abortion clinic bomber in the United States? They’re violent extremists.
I guess the term [...]

Filed under: politics, rants on July 29th, 2005 | No Comments »

Yes, I’m a staunch liberal, and I think the Bush administration’s second term could be the best thing that ever happened to us, and the worst thing that ever happened to the Bush administration. Wipe that shocked look off your face and read on to see why.
During the 2004 presidential elections, as Democrats were divided [...]

Filed under: politics, thoughts on May 31st, 2005 | No Comments »