But my point is this: quit worrying about everyone else and worry about yourself. Take care of your families, jobs and responsibilities. Go and vote on issues, not personalities. Remember, we have to live with whoever we vote into office in November. There are much bigger things to be concerned with during this very difficult time than lipstick and moosehunting.
Technosailor on Politics
15 September 2008
13 September 2008
For those who haven’t noticed, we’re electing a president and vice president, not selecting a winner on “American Idol.” Ms. Palin may be a perfectly competent and reasonably intelligent woman (however troubling her views on evolution and global warming may be), but she is not ready to be vice president.
NYTimes on Palin
9 September 2008
I spent two minutes at the Daily Kos. Jeebus, binky. It’s like being locked in a room full of echoplexes.
Everysandwich on Daily Kos
1 September 2008
For as long as I’ve been paying attention, our politicians have asked little of us as citizens. After 9-11 we were told to go out and shop. During the 90s we were given welfare reform but there was no call for Americans to get out there and fight poverty. There has been no attempt to get people involved in solving real problems.
GigaOM on Government
29 August 2008
The decision certainly was creative, but it won’t age well. It will look like a desperate dumb move a couple of weeks from now. As stupid as trying to take and control Iraq without enough troops, without a plan for the occupation. It’s the Republican approach to problems, shoot from the hip without thinking things through. The invasion of Iraq was certainly a Wow event — like the choice of Palin — but it didn’t age well. This is another of those.
Scripting News on Palin
26 August 2008
Regardless of what he says, McCain is anti-science and will continue Bush’s attack on science and science funding. At least that’s the stench I smell from him. I don’t think I can take another four years of Republicans, with their misleadership, truth-twisting, and corruption.
Everyday Scientist on McCain
15 June 2008
This country is far too divided for its own good. Politics is not a zero-sum game where if one candidate wins, everyone else on the other side loses. That’s how the game is played but it is far from the reality of everyday life. In fact, we are all shades of grey between the bedrocks of party politics in one way or another and that is why I am conservative, yet fiercely independent. On both sides, there are good ideas and bad ideas and if voters can objectively step back from party brinksmanship, I think we can all find good qualities and stances on each side.
Technosailor on Politics
6 May 2008
I don’t want to dislike Hillary Clinton — she is smart and capable, and would be an enormously better President than John McCain. But treating experts as the enemy is a craven strategy to achieve short-term gains at the cost of substantial long-term harm.
Cosmic Variance on Hillary Clinton
5 May 2008
Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not just who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (sex, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race.
Vanity Fair on Sex in Politics
22 April 2008
I think it’s time to reiterate there isn’t a political party in this country that has a truly sound grasp on sound science.
Denialism Blog on Politics