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lack of parenting

Published: 22 December 2009
I just found, courtesy of Fark, this article: Boston mom calls 911 over son’s video game habit. I’m just flabbergasted. Really? You feel the need to call emergency services because you suck as a mom? I have a few suggestions for getting your son off the game console: Tell him to [...]
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holy crap, McConnell did something I like!

Published: 11 December 2008
I don’t often hear about my state’s senators, and when I do, I don’t often agree with them because they’re staunch conservatives and I’m pretty liberal. However, when scanning Google News this morning, I found the New York Times article “Auto Bailout Bill Appears Stalled in the Senate.” The article has completely changed [...]
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arguing against the auto bailout

Published: 6 December 2008
Not that it’ll do much good, but I just left messages at the local offices for Kentucky’s Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell, and also Representative Ben Chandler, urging them to vote against or argue against the proposed $15 billion auto bailout. It’s so damn depressing to me that our government feels it’s their [...]
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government bail-outs

Published: 10 September 2008
I’m divided on how I feel about the recent Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bail-outs by the government. While I don’t like our government saving private corporations (if they go bottom up, that just shows their bad business sense, and we should let the market sort it out–kind of like Darwinism with corporations), I understand [...]
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FISA and Obama slop

Published: 10 July 2008
I’m so disgusted about yesterday’s result on the FISA amendments. I’ve emailed Kentucky’s senators, complaining about how if our own President, ideally someone who breaks no laws himself and especially not someone who asks other entities to break the law, can commit felonies and not get in trouble for it, why on earth should [...]
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two reasons I hate President Bush

Published: 24 February 2008
I’ve been asked before why I hate President Bush, and I never can back it up because I don’t remember specific events that have triggered my anger. Well, now I’m writing down a couple before they get buried in my memory: White House says phone wiretaps back on “for now” The Bush administration said on Saturday [...]
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controversial comic

Published: 9 October 2007
Last Friday in the local student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, there was a comic that has sparked all kinds of protest. I didn’t even see the comic, but boy have I heard about it since. Here’s a description of the comic from yesterday’s Kernel: The cartoon, which ran on Friday and was drawn by [...]
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my take on the Jena 6 fiasco

Published: 20 September 2007
When news articles disappoint, consult Wikipedia. While browsing Fark, I came across an article about the Jena 6, a subject with which I was unfamiliar. Reading through the article left me confused and wondering, “well what the hell really happened?”. Thank goodness for Wikipedia, which has an informative article about the controversy. [...]
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put up or shut up

Published: 15 May 2007
I’ve been so disgusted since yesterday evening when I found out that Microsoft is alleging Linux of patent infringement, but today a few articles have calmed me down: This is, to me, Darl II: “Our precious IP is worth beeelions, and you must honor our sacred intellectual property, which is behind this curtain. We can’t exactly [...]
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