Rant scratchy: Truth or War
My number two rant about certain conservative politics:
Jesus loves you. God Bless America.
Let’s go to war.
I see a lot of people these days talking about how we shouldn’t have gone to war in Iraq, and strangely, some of them are the same people who accused me of disloyalty and being unpatriotic to my country [...]
Top rants for this November — Rant ichi
Lately I’ve been looking for a sewing machine, and in doing so I’ve come across a lot of conservative (female) blogs. I find it curious to read these types of blogs, since this is my mirror image — so much the same, and yet everything flipped the other direction. So, I decided to [...]
Saving Handmade Toys
I’ve been noticing this issue about handmade toys floating around the blogosphere and I finally figured out what it is: The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Apparently this bill was written with the issues about lead in toys from China in mind, but what it does is force anyone selling a toy to [...]
From my “Friend”
(P.S. Mom, this is not real.)
I <3 The Onion
I just spent a fair bit of time discussing economics with my friend, LeeAnn, who lives overseas. She says that the discussion in Japan is whether or not the U.S. caused the worldwide recession, or whether it was just one of the biggest dominoes to fall and thus has generated the most attention. The U.S. [...]
Idealism
The election is over, the polls have closed and Barack Hussein Obama is now the President-elect of the United States.
It still feels dreamlike; Obama has won, the Democrats have overtaken the House and Senate, and, even among states, there has been a lot of movement to the left. I’ve gotten congratulatory phone calls from [...]
The Way Things Work: Liberals and Conservatives
From Jonathan Haidt: “Everyone thinks they are right.” The interesting thing is that he asks “why” and has the results from 25,000 polled respondents. An interesting and entertaining lecture:
My Kind of Principles
Marti and I spent a long time tonight talking about politics, about who is principled and who isn’t, or if “principled” even really applies to politicians. But one thing is clear: I’m a Democrat because of my principles, and because I believe that more Democrats share those principles than Republicans. It took me [...]
Political Humor
I get wayyyy to worked up over politics, and tonight, just as I was fuming over certain things (like why teenage pregnancy is suddenly no big deal to certain political groups) I saw this great video by Steve Colbert.
I also found a supremely interesting article by the associated press, which can be read here, about [...]