I was more than a bit troubled to hear (via kottke) that a group of teenage girls in Gloucester, Massachusetts, two towns over from where I grew up in Hamilton, made a pact to get pregnant. Yikes.
Without doubt, Gloucester and Hamilton are different by social and economic standards. Still, I don’t enjoy the suggestion [...]
The Freakonomics blog featured interviews with three police officers in How Cops Really Want to Police. Their retelling and explanation of “street justice” can be, upon first read, humorous and cheering. Further reflection presents substantial problems with the expressed propensity to take justice into their own hands:
Everyone drinks and drives — especially those guys who [...]
Former GOP congressman Bob Barr declares as Libertarian presidential candidate.
Brilliant. I honestly don’t see how we, the Democratic Party, can lose the presidency. Unless Hillary somehow holds on in the nomination battle until Halloween. Or, unless the article is correct regarding Barr’s possibility to steal young, anti-war voters from Obama. Seriously? Check out that photo—Barr [...]
I have a deeply significant matter to discuss but I have not yet decided how to do so, or if I should at all. To break my recent silence, resulting from the aforementioned hesitation, I would like to share a selection of recent links that I found interesting.
First, a new stick figure slideshow cleverly and [...]
While doing some GovTrack data mining at work today, I came upon this graph of statistical analysis of bill sponsorship in the recent sessions of the United States Congress. I am not certain of the data’s usefulness, but it’s way neat regardless. And I do think it’s interesting that GovTrack considers Hillary Clinton a “radical [...]
This song and video truly moved me. It’s good to have hope for our country’s future, political and otherwise. I’ll be taking some time off tomorrow morning to hear Barack Obama speak at Key Arena a bit after noon.
Four days later, Fox announced that they would not be renewing the contract for Montel’s show. In short, he appears to have been fired for standing up to Fox’s poor journalistic ethics. Check out the coverage on Daily Kos.
Montel raises an interesting point regarding the lack of availability and relevancy to US citizens of information [...]