Politics

Gary Ballard is decidedly non-partisan, or at least he was until the political climate in America went batshit insane. Now he votes one way while holding his nose.

Gun Control Debate

I’ve been contemplating this post for a while, ever since the gun control debate came to the forefront of the national political conversation in the wake of the Newton school shooting. Unfortunately, I’ve been too busy to blog but now seems as good a time as any to discuss it. After all, opponents of gun [...]

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March 8, 2013 at 5:05 pm

Mitt Romney doesn’t understand government or gifts

Last week Americans voted, and I’m glad to say that at least 51% of us still had some concept of the proper role of government. There has been much hemming and hawing from the right-wing side of the country (the sore losers) and a little too much gloat-filled crowing from the left wing side of [...]

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November 15, 2012 at 8:38 pm

Vote… or shut your hole.

I’ve been off writing about politics lately, but today is Election Day. Whether you vote for Barack Obama or that lying liar of an untruthful suit puppet money bags Mitt Romney, whether you are in flyover country or the city, whether you live in a swing state or (like me) a foregone conclusion, you need [...]

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November 6, 2012 at 10:09 pm

Wear the Black: Why Wikipedia is Going Dark

Hopefully, you’ve heard the news about Wikipedia. Today, January 18th, Wikpedia is taking its entire Internet encyclopedia offline in protest of the two Congressional bills worming their way through the festering guts of our crumbling legislative body: the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate. Both bills are [...]

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January 18, 2012 at 3:04 pm

How Citizens United Creates Consequence-Free Lying

I’ve written before about the atrocity that is the Citizens United decision. You know the one, the Supreme Court decision that equated political advertising dollars with free speech, granting corporations the same free speech rights as individuals. I’d like to give you an example of how this decision is starting to poison the already poisoned [...]

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November 7, 2011 at 11:08 pm

The USPS Part Duh: The Netflix Paradigm

I had an add-on thought to my post from the other day about the United States Postal Service. While many of the “free-market solves all” types howl for the Post Office to be shut down in favor of for-profit private enterprise, I would wager many of them don’t realize (or don’t want to) how instrumental [...]

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September 12, 2011 at 8:32 pm

The USPS: The New Socialist Evil

The last week has seen the shrieking deficit drama queens fixate on an entirely new target: the United States Postal Service. It seems that the Post Office is in a bit of a bind, fiscally speaking. Due to the insanely rising costs of healthcare (and thus, retirement funds since old people get sick a lot [...]

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September 8, 2011 at 9:21 pm