Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Weird week, birthdays, and other stuff

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

This whole week has been a bit odd, somehow. It’s hard to explain, it just has. I’ve been feeling a bit more ‘out of it’ than usual. It might be the sudden change in weather since it’s recently gone from horribly hot to cool and (for a few days) rainy. It might also be that [...]

Vice President Cheney says “So?”

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Not sure if you’ve seen this video or not yet, but in an interview with ABC News our Vice President Dick Cheney was confronted with poll data that says “two thirds of Americans say [the war in Iraq is] not worth fighting”, Cheney says “So?”. He goes on to explain how “you cannot be blown [...]

Idiots

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Apparently there was a gang-related shooting a few blocks away from my house at around 4am. Kelly and I were sound asleep, I don’t remember waking up to anything anyway. This isn’t the first thing to happen in our ‘hood’ since we’ve lived here, but this particular even is far less worrying to me. [...]

Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I was listening that old school form of media, something called radio, just now, NPR, and they started playing a slightly truncated version of the journalist Bill Moyers' speech at the National Conference on Media Reform. Found them on YouTube, you should watch / listen. It's very interesting.
Part 1 and Part 2 

Lunchtime links

Monday, January 8th, 2007

During lunch, while eating a delicious chicken sandwich and scanning my usual lunchtime news sites (Digg and Slashdot) I found the following tidbits that I thought I'd share.
Web developers, just say no to Internet ExplorerAn interesting little read from a frustrated developer (presumably, doesn't say what he does for a living, just what kind of [...]