Category Archives: politics

Can It, Keith

Longtime readers know that I have almost always been a fan on Keith Olbermann, dating far back to the pre-.org days when Olbermann was on ESPN, when he and Dan Patrick truly revolutionized the art of the sports recap. The two of them could make watching highlights of any sport, no matter what sport or who was playing, an enjoyable experience, and their reunification on Football Night in America made the show must-see viewing for me. I must admit, though, that I have to ask…

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Turn Left Now

I wish I could say that the special election of Scott Brown to the Senate last night came as any kind of surprise to me. I watched the news last night, dumbly hopeful that somehow the people of Massachusetts would go with the lesser of three evils (counting the Libertarian candidate), but hearing the tales of his closing the gap with Martha Coakely so quickly in the past couple of weeks, and the repeated missteps of the Coakely campaign, this result was pretty much a…

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Invisible

I know not many of you follow one of my favourite authors, Poppy Z. Brite, but I subscribe to both her LiveJournal and Twitter feeds. Brite has lived in New Orleans for most of her adult life, and was among those who lost their homes when the gulf coast levees failed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She’s quick to point out that the levee failures, not the storm itself, was what caused most of the destruction, and it’s hard not to agree with that…

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Far From Nirvana

I had thought that nothing could happen that would make me blog about, or even give much conscious thought to, the whole Tiger Woods brouhaha. Once again, I underestimated the ability of Fox News to take any situation and turn it into an opportunity to force their beliefs and morals down our throats. If I were to post a picture of the fingernail I broke earlier today and how I clipped it off, someone at Fox News could find some way to turn it into…

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Lack of Enthusiasm

Looking back at the past year, which was easily the most anemic ever in terms of how much I worked on the .org, it’s clear that I’ve lost enthusiasm for a lot of the political stuff I’ve been so interested in for so long. I entered the year eager to see how Obama would handle himself at the start of his presidency, and I have to admit that I let my hopes get up after his inauguration speech, when he delivered a pretty stinging rebuke…

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