If Steve Jobs Ran Apple like Bush
Spot on the money satire. MadTV rules! Advertisement Advertisement
Farleygrams Again
Steve Farley is setting the standard for constituent communication with his newletter. You can and should join his mailing list, even if you aren’t in LD 28. Steve’s latest has a call to action for those on the Northwest side of Tucson to help save the state-run Health Care Group program: We will see the … Read more
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell = Lie
Our military has always led the way in the desegregation of our society. It is, in many ways, the most meritocratic of our national institutions. It should be a fundamental right of Americans to help defend their nation by service in the armed forces, if they are physically capable. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is fundamentally … Read more
Why You Shouldn’t Play With Big Brother
A really well done short video on the dangers of modern surveillance technology:
Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout
Link: Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout. And she’s simply wrong, but I think I understand why she’s taken this position. She may not ready to oppose the war, over which she has no actual political control, because she judges the costs of doing so (which could be considerable) to not be … Read more
Prisoner in the Pumpkin Patch
There is a moral sickness at work here: "Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers. The Department of Corrections hopes to launch … Read more
Site Update
I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might, … Read more
