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• July 27th, 2007

  Mud-slinging for Diggs

  Digg Headline: Repub Candidates Refuse YouTube From the article: “So far, only Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) have agreed to participate in the debate. Formal invitations arrived at campaigns yesterday.“ So the candidates have had invitations for a whole 12 hours and haven’t yet officially accepted? Stop the presses, this is [...]

• July 25th, 2007

  Con is the opposite of pro

  From this AP story about Congress holding Harriet Miers in contempt: The House Judiciary Committee approved a contempt of Congress citation Wednesday against [one-time White House counsel] Harriet Miers. The Justice Department said it would block the citation from prosecution because information Congress is demanding is protected by executive privilege. Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi said [...]

• March 7th, 2007

  Reddit: Jumping the shark as we speak

  At the moment, the top nine links at Reddit (plus 2 more in the next 15) are to various articles on the futile grassroots efforts to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Never mind that none of these impeachment proceedings are being carried out by any government bodies with legitimate power and that none [...]

• August 16th, 2004

  Common Sense and Logic for President in 2020

  In case I forget, here’s my platform for when I run for President in 2020: The metric system: we should use it. All measurements must be have metric equivalents listed by the end of my first term. The U.S. will be metric-only by the end of my second term. College textbook prices: they’re ridiculous. A [...]