A few years ago, Oregon upped their redemption price for beverage containers from 5¢ to 10¢, and I remembered doing a double-take because it seemed like a pretty big possible shift. I didn’t know it at the time, but Oregon was the first place in the USA to institute a redemption program for bottles and …
Category Archives: politics
I voted!
Just turned my ballot into a box downtown. This year feels especially important, like if we get everyone we know out to vote then maybe just maybe 50.1% of the state will vote to retain our own bodily autonomy, while 49.9% vote to trample on everyone’s rights. This is my 10-15th time voting over the …
A completely bonkers poll
Given the results in this poll, It’s a strategy (along with their own networks like Fox and right wing radio hammering it out day after day) that’s obviously working for them.
Search as an election predictor
Adam Mathes has a series of posts at MLKSHK (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) showing searches from Iowa users for each candidate in the last month as well as the 2008 search results for a similar time period (and search was a good predictor for final results in the Iowa caucus). Long story short: Adam …
The Banality of Evildoers
Though it was initially called a mansion, Osama Bin Laden’s safe house décor might better be described as Meth Lab Chic. (Not that I’m all that familiar with meth lab interiors, natch.) Rather than a set from 24, it's more the kind of place only Vibe magazine would choose for a shoot, no pun intended. …
Bush Years summed up on twitter
Seeing how the inauguration is just around the bend, I thought maybe it'd be good to hear a bunch of short pithy summaries of the last eight years of Bush. I read this thing on Salon showing how the economy has slid under him and figured instead of me ranting for thousands of words on …
Name that leader
Reading these quotes tonight: We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That …
President Obama
After watching McCain’s concession speech last night, I realized it was John McCain’s election to lose. From a mile up, the race was between a guy with tons of experience and some pretty hardcore wartime stories going up against another guy that was new to the senate and was basically unknown before 2004 to most …
You get what you pay for
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2000 campaign: $1,889,206 Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2004 campaign: $2,596,725 Price of a barrel of crude oil at the beginning of 2001: about $23 Price of a barrel of crude oil at the end of April, 2008: nearly $120 $1 trillion profits to …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 