Daydream Believer

This is not an entry about why McCain lost.  Frankly, I am not politically savvy enough to know the answer to that question, though I suppose I could make certain biased guesses….  This post is instead about McCain’s missed opportunity to go out of this election, and to essentially begin winding down his political career, [...]

As Grant and I were driving around Chicago for Halloween supplies this past Tuesday, my phone rang.  It was a gentleman calling on behalf of MoveOn.org, asking if I would be able to volunteer any time in the days between then and election day to go to Indiana and make sure Obama supporters voted. I [...]

1. Never make a funny face on stage with hundreds of reporters and cameramen nearby.
2. Telling the world you’re “proud” of your veep candidate (cute little maverick that she is) sounds more sexist in the end than any mention of cosmetics being applied to livestock.
3. If you’re a plumber who is broke, you too can [...]

Although it happened a few weeks ago, I’m compelled to post about this, especially given all the crap out there involving politics these days.  No Child Left Inside, a bill designed to serve as a supplement to the No Child Left Behind Act, was recently passed with an overwhelming majority vote by the U.S. House of Representatives.  [...]

TechCrunch reports that a new software will be put to the test Thursday night during the Biden/Palin debate.  RealScoop purports to be able to detect whether a candidate is lying or not, simply by taking note of the speaker’s vocal inflections and patterns and performing 1,000 calculations a second to determine whether what is being [...]

Not dead!  Just haven’t had time to write anything down, I have been so busy.  Seriously, where do days go?
I’ve had a million ideas of things I wanted to blog about, but that ain’t happening.  In the meantime, all you politicky people might enjoy this source for comparing the presidential candidates’ opinions on science issues.

Enough has been said and written about McCain’s pick of Gov. Palin, and I have ranted about it long enough in conversations over the last 24 hours. So, I won’t discuss all my complaints. But my two main objectives lie in two issues closest to my heart.
The first is the environment. McCain [...]

Google Reader has released a set of new feeds you can subscribe to and follow the news that newspeople are following.
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/08/read-what-they-read.html
At the web site above, you can subscribe to the feeds of Barack Obama and John McCain, but also political journalists like Arianna Huffington and others.  The idea is that by reading what they’re reading, [...]

I’ve been watching CNN a lot today, which is a nice change from the ABC Family channel sitcom reruns that I’ve tended to have on. I have some reactions to the news stories in today’s headlines.
1. FEMA lets $40 million worth of food to spoil: Last year, FEMA decided to stock up on food [...]

Reading over my first blog, I came upon this post on The National Conservatives’ Weekly list of the 10 most harmful books.
I think a lot of people would find this list incredibly frustrating, as I did.  I mean, on the one hand, yes, some of these books have been linked to some very dark times [...]