Essential Spirit

I’d like to thank all of those who voted for Scott Brown. You’ve done the coura­geous thing by mak­ing sure the rest of the coun­try can­not have a health care sys­tem roughly equiv­a­lent to the one you already enjoy in Massachusetts. Most peo­ple — ordi­nary peo­ple — would not allow them­selves to sim­ply ignore the mon­u­men­tal shame­ful­ness of that. …

Didn’t Take Long

48 hours later, and I’m already com­pos­ing an apolo­gia for Obama. Well, let’s get into it on Rahm Emanuel: I live in Chicago I con­tributed money to Obama’s cam­paign Emanuel is the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for my dis­trict To be hon­est, the main rea­son I had for both­er­ing to vote in the elec­tion before the bailout was to …

Whee

A few months ago, I was sup­posed to get some help on my job. Specifically, some­one to work on the .NET side of things, which would free me up to do the job I was actu­ally hired to do: PHP devel­op­ment. He wasn’t my first choice, but he was sec­ond, in large part because of …

Cynicsm for Fun and Profit

Glenn Greenwald is dis­cussing the stun­ning hypocrisy of Republicans, as they decry the viciously par­ti­san Democrats for out­ing a gay Republican — osten­si­bly because drag­ging per­sonal sex­ual con­duct into pol­i­tics will drive good peo­ple from gov­er­nance. Color me cyn­i­cal, but why is this such a shock? This is the same crowd that spent a large chunk of …