Monthly Archives: November 2004

a disagreement with an essay

http://jtidwell.net/writing/reason.html

But the most unsettling aspect of this presidency has not been its
political positions, nor its policies, nor its actions. It’s the lack
of any counterbalance to Bush’s ideological orthodoxy. And that lack
of balance is leading us in a dangerous philosophical direction.

I don’t think that all positions should be balanced. If someone gets
up and argues in [...]

Josh Reads

If you don’t have enough snarkiness in your life, check out Josh Reads the Comics so You Don’t Have To.

Sample online voting screen

Walden O’Dell’s wet dream. Enjoy…
(Who the heck is Walden O’Dell?)

Mom’s Cancer

I may have mentioned this to some people before, but check out Mom’s Cancer.
It’s an (excellent) amateur webcomic by someone chronicling what his mother went through.
It may well strike too close to home for some, but it’s really well done and worth a read.

We who are about to come in last salute you!

While I’d really love to see Dan Dunn win his race for state rep, I also have a grasp (however tenuous) on reality and so realize it ain’t gonna happen.
So I’ll be rooting for Dunn to beat the Republican (Steinhilber) who really sounds like a loon.
I’m rlc and I approve this message.

Impending Doom

I hope TC is ready to pay out a bunch on his bets, since I’m siding with the duck and am predicting a Kerry win.
If two things happen (one decently likely, the other (sadly) not) much of the badness of this result can be mitigated:

The Republicans hold both halves of Congress. This would have [...]

Back to the Future

Given how the media has gone completely into the tank for Kerry this year (Newsweek editor-in-chief talking about how the media is working hard to give Kerry 15%, Rathergate, NYTimes again and again, etc.), I think we should go back to the 1800s and early 1900s when not only were papers (pretty much the only [...]