Posts in: Politics
- Mike Gravel vs. Obama: “Juneau What? Anchorage What?”
- I might just vote for him. He says he’s a Libertarian, but he’s also quite progressive and I agree with him on many issues. Anyone who doesn’t take himself so seriously that he will learn and do the Soulja Boy in a campaign video has to be at least a little bit cool, right? [8 May 2008]
- Who do you trust more: Corporations or Government?
- This post takes the long road. If you don’t want to take the long road, skip the train of thought and get to the point. In one of my moments of Random Thoughtitude, I was thinking about what my ideal country would look like. My first thought was infrastructure. I want a government that adequately funds [...] [28 Apr 2008]
- In defense (um, sort of) of Geraldine Ferraro
- I’ve been meaning to write a post about Geraldine Ferraro. But you know, SxSW got in the way. I did however come across and comment on Dave Winer’s post about Ferraro’s comments. My comment was pretty much what I would have said in a blog entry, so I’m posting it here as well. I think [...] [15 Mar 2008]
- Mike Huckabee, Christiofacist
- UPDATE: You may also be interested in The Boston Globe’s editorial Islamofascism’s ill political wind. From the piece: The pairing of “Islam” and “fascism” has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism - indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco Franco [...] [16 Jan 2008]
- Recommended viewing: “Money as Debt”
- A 47-minute video about the United States’ and global banking systems. “Tin-foil hat” may come to mind during some portions of the movie, but raises some excellent questions about debt, money creation and how to create a stable, just, and sustainable economic system. View original. [1 Dec 2007]
- On Bill O’Reilly
- Re: Bill O’Reilly’s dinner with Al Sharpton: O’Reilly surprised “there was no difference” between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants. [24 Sep 2007]
- Why they hate us: World politics in a nutshell
- I’m about half way through Noam Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, and on page 163, how the world works became abundantly clear. Chomsky writes: The year 1958 was highly significant in world affairs. The Eisenhower administration identified three majjor crises: Indonesia, North Africa, and the Middle East. All involved oil producers [...] [18 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: “You Are What You Grow”
- Please stop by the New York Times and read Michael Pollan’s article on the United States’s farm bill and its implications for national health, global economics and immigration. Just one nugget from the article: By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the farm [...] [21 Apr 2007]
