As promised, a year end letter. But as I have mentioned in the past, it is getting harder and harder to write these things. I did the “completely absurd” a couple of times, but you can really only go so far with those. And then I tried sort of a mix, and that kind of [...]
In the last 36 hours I have been to 5 hours worth of meetings. That is a much higher than average amount of meetings for me. And you want to know the thing that I have learned from all of these meetings? Nothing. That’s right. None of the issues that I went into the meetings [...]
I believe what he says very strongly, and have been saying it myself for years. “But I freely concede that in an open and free society, with the dangers inherent in Jihadist terror, in an age of mass destruction, there will almost certainly come a time when we will have to endure serious human and [...]
I don’t want to keep ranting about the same thing, but isn’t it ridiculous that the same people who wanted Clinton’s head over a blowjob (or lying about it), are losing their minds at the thought of going after people who tortured and lied about it? Is it just me? What the hell is going [...]
This is going to be short, because I’m busy at work, but how, seriously, can anyone justify torture? Under any circumstances. Even if you “claim” it worked. I can think of a LOT of things that “work”, but you don’t do them because they aren’t right. I don’t know if anyone else has been following [...]
I love dystopian novels. LOVE them. I can’t get enough. 1984is my favorite book of all time, and right now I’m reading another dystopian novel, and I have about 15 on my “to read” list. What I especially love about 1984is how it is still relevant today. I’m sorry, did I say love? I should [...]
And then I read the following, and Obama finally does lose my support. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html Update: It looks like the the Salon website is mucked up right now. Sorry about that. But not really, since I don’t think it is my fault.
Read the following link. Then try to defend Bush for authorizing this, or Obama, for refusing to go after the people who authorized it. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/how-america-became-the-soviet-union.html If Obama doesn’t start looking into this stuff, and start opening up his administration like he promised, he’s lost me.
Two things are bothering me right now. Thing #1. The Texas Board of Education just ruled that schools do not have to teach that the Universe is ~14 billion years old, as is stated by science. They now can teach that the Universe is around 6000 years old, as stated by some fringe religious elements. [...]
This morning, while I was getting dressed, I was watching Barack’s keynote speech from 4 years ago. And I remembered that at the time I thought it was a really impressive, amazing speech. And I also clearly remember telling people that if Kerry lost, I’d like to see Obama run for President in 4 years. [...]
I just read this online. It captures my thoughts so perfectly. The excerpt is from a piece about the VP debate (I know, I’m so behind), but I think that it is valid now more than ever. It says that we haven’t learned our lesson after choosing an intellectually inferior president for the last eight [...]
That is how long that I was in line to vote this morning. I’ve never waited more than about 10 minutes. It was insane. I guess that was a good thing. But I’m really worried that if this is happening all over, people are going to get frustrated. Hopefully not, though. So if you haven’t [...]
Last Saturday Kelly and I decided to wander down to see Barack in person. For those of you that aren’t aware, he was doing a rally here in St. Louis, and being fans (both of rallies and Barack), we went. The rally started around noon at the Arch, so we decided to leave around 10:15 [...]
He said that he’s going to help people with diabetes.