Tag Archives: Politics

Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=all I thought Sarah Palin was creepy before reading this Vanity Fair piece, but she now seems ripe for a sectioning. Maybe she and Glenn Beck can get a two-for-one-deal.

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?”: Americas misguided culture of overwork – Nonfiction – Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/25/german_usa_working_life_ext2010/index.html Interesting article that basically sums up “work smarter, not harder” in an international economic sense. It also made me realise that Americans – who can’t stand the thought of paying taxes – happily shell out from their own pockets for expensive health insurance, expensive university tuition and (presumably expensive) child care. So much of […]

Posted in Capitalism | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

(Untitled)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_go_co/us_arlington_cemetery Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster. John Metzler, who ran the historic military burial […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

For a look outside presidential bubble, Obama reads 10 personal letters each day – washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033004260.html?sid=ST2010033004292 Say what you will about his policies (and there are some that will say an awful lot), but there’s no denying that this is a classy President. Hard to imagine Obama wiping his hands on others’ shirts after shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Early in the afternoon, a few hundred “sample” letters arrived […]

Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments closed

Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors &Health Care Experts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXXBCFnhsUc I was engaged in this health care debate long before yesterday, when it became a personal reality: I was wakened by a call from my grandmother’s nursing home, informing me that she had fallen and was very sick, and that she had been rushed to hospital by ambulance. I spent the day with her, […]

Posted in Health | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

Palins Reasons for Stepping Down | 44 | washingtonpost.com

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/03/palins_remarks_in_stepping_dow.html?wprss=44 Sarah Palin’s remarks from today’s announcements, as taken from her website. I’m surprised someone had the forethought to remove the 😉 and LOLs, though the remaining text does give the impression it was written by one of her pre-teen daughters. In the words of General MacArthur said, “We are not retreating. We are advancing […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

(Untitled)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning_25 Sarah Palin “resigns” (like she won’t come back in an even more annoying venue – talk show, anyone?), citing one of the least coherent political arguments ever: She said she had decided against running for re-election as Alaska’s governor, and believed it was best to leave office even though she had two years left […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

(Untitled)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor_where_60 Much as I love news reports exposing Republican hypocrisy and “immoral” (their words… prior to getting caught, anyway) behaviour, they’re coming at rather a quick pace. Can we slow them down so I can savour them each a bit more? *sly grin* After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , , | Comments closed

John Hodgman at Radio &TV Correspondents Dinner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY John Hodgman asks the hard questions about the President’s nerd credentials, by giving a nerd’s eye view of the Constitution and the current administration. (Thanks, man!)

Posted in Amateur Radio | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

Twitter Unleashes Deluge of Sarcasm on Republican Congressman — Daily Intel

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/06/twitter_unleashes_deluge_of_sa.html Idiot Republican tweets (“twits” might be more accurate, here) that the Iranian protests are like the GOP protests in Congress. Helpful fellow Tweeters point out that no, they aren’t. paganmist @petehoekstra Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of Tears was […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged , , | Comments closed