Posted in Politics, Random Ramblings on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Word on the street is that liberals are boycotting Whole Foods grocery stores after its co-founder and CEO, John Mackey, published this article in the Wall Street Journal, expressing his point of view that Obama’s health reform is a bad idea.
What really has everyone’s underwear up in a wad is this sentiment in particular:
Many promoters of [...]
Posted in Politics on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Polls open on Wednesday.
Posted in Politics on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a link to an article that will never make it into the Republican e-mail chain letter machine.
US Nobel laureates: vote Obama
On the eve of the first US presidential debate, a host of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences signed an open letter to “urge” the nation to vote for the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.
Sixty-one [...]
Posted in Politics on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Republicans criticize Democrats for getting their information from the “biased liberal media.”
All the bad news you read about in the paper, that’s not really happening, they say. It’s all anti-capitalist propaganda, intended to scare people into destroying our country.
It’s an interesting claim, that the media are anti-capitalist, considering their air time is paid for by advertisers, but anyway, have [...]
Posted in Politics on September 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Focusing only on the issues, I couldn’t vote for McCain/Palin, but I wanted to like Sarah Palin. I like pushy women who stand up for what they believe in, to hell with what anyone says.
But after watching this video, I wish there were a way I could underline my vote for Obama/Biden a zillion times, just [...]
Posted in Politics on January 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Erica Jong on Hillary Clinton’s tears
So I was in the other room while Miguel was watching the New Hampshire debates, and the one thing going through my mind, just listening to the candidates, was, I can’t believe how emotional John Edwards sounds. I mean, he really got worked up about it.
Later, I read that Edwards [...]
Posted in Endangered Species, Life in Marin, Politics, Propaganda on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On the Specific Pun message boards, they’re arguing about the Kyoto Treaty, is global warming really that bad, is saving the planet really worth the costs, and so on. Here’s what I just left as my own response, and I even signed my own name.
