Archive for November, 2004

Work

« 16 November 2004 | 15:36 | diary, worklife | No Comments »

I was away all last week for business and catching up with friends, so apologies for the hiatus. The spam has been killing me too, so I’m working on revamping my current setup to something more manageable. Hopefully a new framework will emerge when the new year rolls around. A bit of [...]



(a few) sources of reason

« 5 November 2004 | 14:17 | America, politics | No Comments »

JesusLand
Rove’s re-election strategy was elegantly simple: Scare the bejesus out of Jesusland. Faggots are headed your way! Satanic Muslims are hiding everywhere! That’s all it took to get Jesusland to do the job. Intellectual conservatives like the National Review staff are flattering themselves if they honestly believe Jesusland cares about conservative thought. The “reality-based” folks [...]



Bible Belt Ain’t Livin’ it up

« 5 November 2004 | 12:07 | America, politics | No Comments »

Walking the walk on family values.
For all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from Kerry’s home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast corridor, who live these values. Indeed, it is the “blue” states, led led by Massachusetts and Connecticut, that have been willing to invest more money over [...]