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Politics

• Politics, academia, rants

  Some thoughts on e-1337-ism

  04.24.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Bill Maher has an article up on Salon going over one of his “New Rules” in which he mentions that 150 graduates of Regent University have been hired by the Bush administration. For those of you who don’t know, Regent is the oh-so-prestigious law school run by funda-nut Pat Robertson. Maher goes on to attack [...]

• Politics, books

  20/20 Hindsight

  04.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been maintaining radio silence on the whole Virginia Tech tragedy, and there hasn’t been too much else to talk about. The tragedy is still fresh in everyone’s mind and I haven’t had anything to say about it that wasn’t painfully obvious. But Salon has an article up about how teachers of creative writing deal [...]

• Politics

  yeah pretty much

  04.13.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout this whole Imus kerfluffle, I’ve had a hard time reconciling why the mummified provacatuer had caused such an outrage. Besides it being a slow news week, I don’t see why his (admittedly in poor taste) was so central in the public discourse when other media personalities say much more bigoted and potentially offensive things [...]

• Politics

  Radio Free Racism? Imus Makes an ASS

  04.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Imus-t say,(that probably qualifies as the lamest thing I have ever written) that I’m not really feeling the sense of outrage that everyone else seems to be feeling about this whole thing. I have listened to maybe three minutes of Imus in my entire life. I’m not a fan and I know very little about [...]

• Politics, television

  John Bolton on the Daily Show

  03.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Anybody else catch this last night? I really like it when conservatives go on the show. I think Jon Stewart does an admirable job of interviewing those with an opposing point of view without getting abrasive and staying (relatively) respectful. Bolton was our erstwhile ambassador to the UN, an organization that he had little respect [...]

• Politics, television

  On Political Authoritah…

  03.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am a fan of South Park. My opinions on this are well documented. One of the things I like about the show is how it plays with politics and lampoons serious issues without ever descending into partisan nastiness. While I think it’s pretty safe to say that most people watch the show for fart [...]