As I’m proudly descended from three of the signers of the Mayflower Compact (Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, and Degory Priest), I feel obligated to bring out a post on Thanksgiving that meditates on what we may have learned from the Pilgrims, and this post is it.
Now before you accuse me of spouting some kind of [...]
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What Did We Learn from the Pilgrims?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Watching the Republicans Self-Destruct
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the President may have SAID that his party “got whupped” in the election, but if that statement contained any meaning to him, he and the party have not as we would say, “fully internalized it.” With the electorate up in arms over gross corporate tax breaks and corruption, with their syncophant lobbysts going [...]
An Election-Analysis-Free Zone Here!
Posted in Environment, Islam, Press freedom, Privacy, Terrorism on November 13, 2006 | 5 Comments »
That’s right, I totally refuse to do any post-election analysis or speculating or anything else. The votes have been cast and counted (however flakily) and I really don’t have much of anything to add.
But now that you guys are in there, I’d like some action. Don’t talk, Do. Show a little leadership, [...]
Real Muslims in America
Posted in Islam, Terrorism on November 9, 2006 | 2 Comments »
As I look back on a year’s posts, I note that one of the themes I have been addressing is the nature of Islam in a modern society. I object to the broad-brush tarring of Islam as some kind of horrible, backward, medieval, violent religion that is populated by angry ministers who breed hordes [...]
Bush vs. Our Constitution
Posted in Press freedom, Privacy, Terrorism on November 2, 2006 | 4 Comments »
You can find a lot of discomforting things about the policies of the Bush Administration in many sectors of interest, but perhaps none so basic and so far-reaching and so disturbing as their attack on the US Constitution. Using the ramrod of the “war on terror” they have mounted what appears to be an [...]
Fix Election Machine Problems with Manual Procedures?
Posted in Electronic Voting, Internet on November 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry to have another post on our national election problems, but here it is anyway.
In my post below, I quote the Diebold folks saying that any “unlikely” problems with their failure- and hacker-prone election machines can be fixed by “just” implementing “appropriate manual controls.” Well, just in time to take care of that fantasy, [...]
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