Ryan and Debi & Toren

Category: politics

  • The resemblance is rather striking (no offense to the chimps)

  • I’m not alone; peas, wonderful peas

    I’ve been buried in classes and haven’t been doing much of anything other than school related stuff as of late, so not much to post. Here’s my round up of the last few weeks: I just received an email from a friend with this link rating Bank of America as the worst bank in America.…

  • Iraq War experiment

    Hurry, before you do anything else, write down the number you see below: click here to learn more Okay, now go check out this article from the St. Petersburg Times on the War in Iraq and the costs – both financially and in human lives. When you’re done reading that article, come back to this…

  • a couple minor political thoughts

    I have two more posts on my trip to Princeton and Hartford, but I have to interrupt the narrative with a couple of political news items. First, whether you’re a fan of John McCain or not, you need to know that he has recently come out in favor of the completely nonsensical position that thimerosal,…

  • McCain visits University of Tampa

    I just finished my morning class on Friday and was responding to email when I heard that John McCain was visiting the university at noon. I called Debi, who doesn’t have classes on Fridays, and asked her if she wanted to see him. Regular readers will know we don’t generally lean Republican, but we are…

  • How do you measure up against the candidates?

    A friend sent me a link to this quiz to get a sense of how you measure up to the current candidates for President: I’ll tell you who most closely matches my views if you tell me who most closely matches yours.

  • hard-wired politics?

    I caught this article in the LA Times today about some recent neuroscience studies illustrating differences between conservatives and liberals. Turns out, there are actual biological differences: conservatives don’t respond well to ambiguity and don’t take kindly to change; liberals, on the other hand, are very accepting of change and tolerate ambiguity well. Like the…

  • must see video – all because gays are getting married

    Caught this on one of the blogs I regularly read. Boy does it put the argument about gay marriage into perspective:

  • murder 6/10ths of a mile from home

    I started through the local news this morning and found this story about a murder in Roselawn, which is the community that borders our condominium complex on the south. The murder took place about 5 blocks from our condo (see this map), which, no pun intended, makes the homicides seem closer to home than all…

  • I’ll try not to be too political this year…

    … But I think I’m allowed one political post. Just read this editorial from The New York Times and realized that it sums up in a few short paragraphs everything that is wrong with the Republican domination of our government right now. I’m a political independent, so don’t think I’m saying Democrats are any better…