From Boing Boing, My Modest Proposal: The U.S.A.R.� I feel bad for the Red States. Yes, they won the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and most of the state houses. But they still can’t have the country they really want because the last few Blue States won’t roll over. So I am making a simple … Read More
A Diebold Flashback
Courtesy of Boing Boing, here’s a timely flashback to a CNN story including statements made by Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell: The company came under fire last year for a letter that Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell wrote as a fundraising pitch to Republicans. In the letter, O’Dell said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." … Read More
Bush Unbound
I lied. One other very pertinent article about what to look forward to in the years to come: Brought along with Bush is a gallery of grotesques in the Senate—more than one of the new senators advocating capital punishment for abortion, another urging that all gay teachers be fired, yet another revealed as suffering from obvious symptoms of Alzheimer’s.
Final Thoughts
Probably the last post I’ll make on the subject of the election, Boing Boing has an excellent thread of comments including this one from Billy Hayes: Bush likes to use old Texas sayings a lot. I have one for him. In Texas there is a saying that goes, ‘Give em enough rope and they will hang themselves.’ Well, I guess … Read More
“It’s Your Fault”
From author John Shirley’s site If you just accepted Diebolt’s rigged voting machines, then it’s your fault we’re heading into an Ashcroftian fascist state. If you –like too many people in New Mexico–just accepted the Republicans’ blocking of the registration of Hispanic voters, widely reported in NM, then it’s your fault that the poor will be increasingly enslaved and disenfranchised … Read More
"It's Your Fault"
From author John Shirley’s site If you just accepted Diebolt’s rigged voting machines, then it’s your fault we’re heading into an Ashcroftian fascist state. If you –like too many people in New Mexico–just accepted the Republicans’ blocking of the registration of Hispanic voters, widely reported in NM, then it’s your fault that the poor will be increasingly enslaved and disenfranchised … Read More