One of the first thing every American learns is that we don’t discuss religion or politics in polite company. We don’t talk about them at the dinner table. We don’t discuss them at family gatherings. This was a HUGE mistake. Instead of being polite, America has forgotten how to be politely disagree. We have forgotten…
Category: politics
Just Re-Vote Already
As Brexit crashes towards a no deal hard exit, poles are showing a majority of Britons would like a second “people’s vote” to settle the matter. I am perplexed by the argument that a second vote would be ignoring the will of the people. If you vote twice, then you will just keep re-voting and…
BREXIT: The Leave Was a Lie
No Doubt, BREXIT is Bad Two weeks after the BREXIT vote, I am still reeling from how obviously bad it all is. BREXIT is bad. The referendum was a bad idea. The players behind it all were bad people. Yet, the slog towards BREXIT seems to continue. I can accept that before the vote, people might actually have believed…
Fibbing Feinstein
Honorable Senator Feinstein, After the the Snowden revelations about the NSA came to light, I wrote you as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to you to urge you to put a stop to NSA’s PRISM program. I argued that these systems violated the constitution, American ideals, and human rights. From a practical…
Civil War?
After Obama’s reelection, Republican pundits like Rove and Trump called for a revolution, but after watching the vote for Hurricane Sandy relief, I wonder if it is more of a civil war? The NY Times has a map of who voted for and against Hurricane Sandy relief here. The obvious first take away is that the only people who voted against relief were Republicans. But take…
Oppose H.R. 3025: AKA Cellphone RoboRape
Dear Honorable Congressmen and Congresswomen, Today I ask you to oppose H. R. 3035: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to permit informational calls to mobile telephone numbers, and for other purposes. This bill would strip citizens of the protections we have from abusive phone calls from companies. These onerous calls, which invade…
Eurozone North and South
I was listening to an interview with the editor of Germany’s “Die Zeit” as he opined about the “Protestant North” and the “catholic Club Med” South of Europe. His contention was that the Northern countries in the Eurozone were traditionally more fiscally responsible and subsidizing the free-wheeling and spend more than you make Southern states. The question…
As Goes the Infrastructure
The latest Monocle Magazine offered a sober view of the American decline with their article “The City Limits: New York State.” NYC is the classic tale of a giant urban metropolis that steers a large state full of more suburban and country folk. NYC’s liberal politics and urban focus seems to infuriate that more conservative…
Open Letter to Washington DC
This is an open letter to our President, our congress people, and our senators: By far, the worst thing revealed by the Wikileaks cables, has been how America has reacted. Corporations have been pressured into being secret thugs. People have been threatened with assassination by American officials. Speech and press have been shutdown. Today Osama…
Reality Deficit
NPR did a great interview with Ayesha Jalal, a professor at Tufts University. She is helping Lahore University create it’s first History program. What really struck me was how relevant she made the study of history to a nation that seems to be facing so many pressing and current crises. She explained that Pakistan has…
Shill, Baby, Shill!
Sarah Palin, maybe if you were in the Gulf filling your mouth with as much oil as you do with your own foot, Louisiana would be safe! First of all, it should come as no small irony that the former Governor of Alaska doesn’t seem to know that The Alaska Pipeline had its third largest…
Take One for the Team
I don’t know where to even begin: disgust, glee, or gratitude? In another no-longer shocking and totally par-for-the-course “revelation”, another evangelical luminary of the party of family values has decided to resign from congress after admitting to having an extra-marital affair. *YAWN* This Man is an Idiot In case you don’t recognize the face, this…
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