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How We Elect Our President

Lee and Sachi do it again. Their specialty is taking an overly-complex subject and distilling it into it’s most salient and tangible parts. Excellent stuff.

In Election, Politics, Video on 30 July 2008 with Comments Off

Pumpkins before politicians

It’s likely more people will carve a pumpkin this Halloween than vote in the mid-term elections next week.
Last year, the National Retail Federation polled 8,100 American adults regarding Halloween-related spending and 41% responded that they will carve a pumpkin to celebrate the holiday. Meanwhile, trends in voter turnout indicate that we can expect 39% of [...]

In Holidays, Politics, Society on 30 October 2006 with Comments Off

War torn

Have we gone completely mad? I never thought I’d see a headline like this from, of all places, USA Today:
Bush orders humanitarian aid to Lebanon, but opposes cease-fire
The article comes from The Associated Press. Basically, Bush says to keep supplying Israel so they can keep bombing Lebanon back into the stone age, and next to [...]

In Lebanon, Military, News, Politics, Society, War on 24 July 2006 with Comments Off

The blame game

The Seattle Times today published a story that will likely incite careless readers to blame spurious write-in votes for the loss of their choice, Christine Gregoire, for Governor of The State of Washington. Losing by only 42 votes at the moment, Gregoire would likely be in the lead if 502 King County voters had [...]

In Politics on 30 November 2004 with no comments

Kerry’s team

I’m rooting for the Red Sox for the same reason I’m voting for Kerry: I want the other team to lose. Being a Seattle Mariners fan means hating the Yankees unconditionally (not that there aren’t a plethora of reasons to hate the Yankees) and being a liberal-minded voter means hating the current administration.
The outcome of [...]

In Politics on 20 October 2004 with no comments