Category: Opinions
Political Problems
Voting is the most sacred and truly democratic system that our country has, and yet, the Democratic Party is going to punish Michigan [voters] for moving their primary to an earlier date. Now, I’m not up on any of the rules that political parties have to follow, but it just…
Primary Votes
For those voting democrat on tomorrow’s primary, take a listen/read to this article from NPR’s Day-to-Day (this will be available after 3 p.m. today). https://www.npr.org/2008/01/14/18076136/michigan-democrats-make-do-with-small-ballot http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18076136 If you decide it’s not worth voting democrat, might I suggest Ron Paul on the republican ballot? At the very least it’ll throw off the GOP. Current…
Benazir Bhutto Died 1 hour ago!
I’m very disapointed with American media. Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan and one of the few pro-democracy politicians in that country, has just died in a suicide bombing assassination. What do the headlines say right now? “Hillary pauses to remember Bhutto;” “Obama’s reaction to Bhutto’s death;” “Reactions…
More Exploitation of The ‘Third World’?
She now has 45 surrogate mothers on her books, mostly impoverished women from nearby villages. Twenty-seven of them are currently pregnant, and each will be paid between $5000 and $7000 — the equivalent to upwards of 10 years’ salary for rural Indians. My fear is that rich foreign women are…
Linux is the future.
I’ve heard rumors that Northern is now starting to distribute Ubuntu Linux on the Thinkpads. THIS. IS. AWESOME. I’ve been using Ubuntu for almost a month now. I can easily do 95% of everything that I want/need to do. In addition, Ubuntu is never second guessing me like Vista was,…
Politics in the media.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-potus-2008-are-you-ready-for-some-football.html The study [ ] paints a clear picture of what’s wrong, laying out how the media focuses obsessively on the “horse race” aspects of political campaigns [ ] while almost completely ignoring critical issues like the candidates’ actual records and the likely impact of the candidates’ policy positions on…