Does President Obama Practice Appeasement?
Hell yeah, my man is going to play the bin Laden card!
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Good “Luck” Stanford Indians!
I found this in the Palo Alto Daily News today: Good "LUCK" Stanford Indians "Give 'm the axe" Stanford stopped using an Indian as a sports mascot in 1972. That put them 35 years ahead of Illinois. We...
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Voting Day
Voters in Mountain View, CA I haven’t done any research, but I figured I would put in a vote for the cigarette tax, as well as local school bonds for asbestos removal. At current interest rates,...
View ArticleObjectivism
Someone for whom I have a decent respect is winding down his reading of Atlas Shrugged. While I haven’t read Ayn Rand, I basically get that her shtick is that “self-centered material greed is good...
View ArticleProp 8 Guy Decides to Stop Hating
A Prop 8 champion is having a change of heart: Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. In this sense, marriage is a gift...
View ArticlePolitical Compromise
A paragraph I had highlighted as I finished my reading of Du Bois’ “Dusk of Dawn”: The Dyer Anti-lynching Bill went through the House of Representatives and on to the floor of the Senate. There in 1924...
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No Justice . . .
This image I seen at The Lost Albatross is Creative Commons so I can post it here: I have been aware of the prison problem for a decade or so. What strikes me here is that every year we have the same...
View ArticleGeorge Takei on the BSA
Beautiful words: Many well-meaning people counter that the BSA is a private organization, and as such should be able to keep whomever they want out. This is of course the same justification used to...
View ArticleHow to Stop Armed Crazy People
So, we have yet-another-shooting, which usually provokes a mention on the potential wisdom of gun control and some NRA vitriol about how what we need isn’t less guns but more guns. But then, the latest...
View ArticleMitt Romney Plays the Race Card
As a white guy I can often get away without worrying about racism. But then I’ll get on the phone with my step mother. As a proud black woman, she takes the Obama hatred personally. “They wouldn’t be...
View ArticleShen Yun
Some weeks back I saw a poster for “Shen Yun: Reviving 5,000 Years of Civilization” at work and thought “Excellent! The wife digs artistic performance and bonus points for digging some traditional...
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Speak Softly, and Carry a Crowbar
We are not the young, strong, boisterous nation that we once were. We are older and slower, hopefully a bit wiser. We are beginning to suspect that if we sold the old gunboat we have parked in the...
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Presidential Decree #6: Intellectual Commons Restoration
In an age where innovation and creative thinking move ever faster, it is sick and demented that we have extended copyright periods to over a century. It is shame for the current generation and those of...
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Remember Gwen Araujo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Araujo Back when I lived in Mountain View I was deeply saddened to read of the death of Gwen Araujo in 2002. She was a transgendered teen in the South Bay who was...
View ArticleSkipping Ender’s Game
As new parents, it is not as if we are getting out to the movies at all these days. All the same, when the Ender’s Game Movie page popped up in my Facebook I had to pay a visit, and share my opinion:...
View ArticleSyria vs US Credibility
One big deal is that when Hussein used chemical weapons against Iran, we knew it was happening, and instead of raising a stink, we gave him logistical support. Our credibility with regards to...
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Hero of Belbek, UA: Colonel Yuri Mamchur
How do you triumph against an oppressor who has an overwhelming advantage in terms of firepower? If you are Mahatma Gandi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, or Ukrainian Colonel Yuri Mamchur, you...
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. . . Convincing?
A “challenge” posted to Facebook: A moment of thought and I realized the challenge was easy, and heartening. This speech has been given before: “Hillary Clinton understands that we must fix an economy...
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In A Nutshell: Climate Disruption
A rant posted on a colleague’s Facebook wall in reaction to the New York Times: I read The New Yorker too much when I had free time and the gist of it was: Earth’s climate is usually pretty erratic,...
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