Category Archives: Politics

We interrupt this blog for a reminder from a veteran

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Jeff

As many of you know, I am a vet­eran. I wore the uni­form of the United States Air Force for six years, and did so proudly. While I was not deployed to Iraq in the first Gulf War, I was active duty and I could have … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Maybe you should try not lying, then

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Jeff

Repub­li­can Con­gres­sional hope­ful Ari David is livid that Apple has rejected his iPhone app due to “defam­a­tory state­ments” about his com­pe­ti­tion, Demo­c­rat Henry Wax­man. As you can see not only are none of the state­ments defam­a­tory, they are all fac­tual. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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We offered, you refused

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Jeff

Dear Repub­li­cans and/​or con­ser­v­a­tives, I don’t know how to break this to you, since you obvi­ously haven’t fig­ured it out your­selves yet, but it’s start­ing to become a prob­lem. So here it goes. You lost. Last Novem­ber, the Amer­i­can peo­ple took a good … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The paradox of thrift

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Jeff

Really good arti­cle explain­ing how reces­sions work and why tax cuts and “let­ting peo­ple keep more of their own money” may sound nice, but doesn’t actu­ally help any­thing. Now we’ve entered “para­dox of thrift” ter­ri­tory. Peo­ple are sav­ing more. And … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Calm down, Chicken Little

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Jeff

Calm down, lib­er­als. Take a deep breath. I know that trust­ing your elected offi­cials and being skep­ti­cal of the press feels alien and wrong, but times have changed. It’s really okay. Ease down. You’ve blown the transaxle, you’re just grind­ing metal. I woke … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Competency we can believe in

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Jeff

I’ve seen lots of peo­ple on the left freak­ing out about Obama’s recent cab­i­net choices. Let’s review. Sec­re­tary of State: Hillary Clin­ton Sec­re­tary of Defense: Bob Gates Health and Human Ser­vices: Tom Daschle Home­land Secu­rity: Janet Napoli­tano Attor­ney Gen­eral: Eric Holder … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Hmm, no Say It Like Bush on Amazon…

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Jeff

Just saw this on the book­shelf at my local gro­cery store. Haven’t read it and don’t endorse it (it’s pretty easy to find on Ama­zon if you’re inter­ested), but I found it intensely inter­est­ing that we have a pres­i­dent (or will, on … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The skeptic and the believer

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Jeff

I’ve been think­ing a lot recently about Obama win­ning the elec­tion, about my writ­ing, why I washed out of NaNoW­riMo this year (more on that later), and the pass­ing of one of my favorite authors last week, Michael Crich­ton. I’m also reread­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Adventures in IM

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Jeff

From texts between me and my Max­i­mum Geek cohort Josh Curry today: me: SF Gate is call­ing it. 95% report­ing, 52 – 48 for ban­ning gay mar­riage in CA. Damn. me: THEY WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF GEORGE TAKEI (oh, my…) josh: wow that sucks me: … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Holy crap, is it already over?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Jeff

MSNBC just had the gov­er­nor of Penn­syl­va­nia on and he said that because the state Repub­li­can party chose to run some inflam­ma­tory com­mer­cials in the final days about Jere­miah Wright, African Amer­i­can turnout has been off the charts today across … Con­tinue read­ing →

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