Old-Fashioned Pork Spending
I kept laughing my entire way through reading the UF campus paper this weekend. It turns out, the Student Government literally got into the act of pork spending – that is, paying for a...
Author: Ken
Realignment?
In one breath, liberal bloggers are happy about their party’s first victory since the 2000 Senate gains. In the next breath, looking back at the bad news, the President’s low approval numbers (35%-37%), and...
NoVA Speaks Up
Virginia’s Governor Warner has launched his presidential campaign with a bang – winning the off-year election to succeed him for his current lieutenant, Tim Kaine. The margin, 52%-46%, was actually larger than Warner’s four...
The Flour Disease
In a despicable display of selfish apathy towards a disease affecting millions of people worldwide, including whole generations of Africans, the right-wing has compared AIDS to a “flour disease”. Now, I won’t get on...
Scandals Define Us
Ah, so it appears Scooter Libby, is the first person to be hit with indictments of the leaking of a covert CIA operative. But that’s not why I blog this. Many Republican Senators, helping...
Personal Updates
1) My friend and coworker Ann Poe has recently moved into the same apartment complex as myself. We both found it during a hectic run to find me an apartment in August. I thought...
The New Rosa Parks of the World
I hate to use the analogy of a recently deceased civil rights worker, but one of my pet peeves is something akin to a Rosa Parks syndrome. On my shuttle to work from my...
Unqualified Nominee Withdraws
It’s about time. As I fell off the blogging wagon for a few weeks, Harriet Miers fell off the proverbial cliff. Largely unqualified to handle constitutional law (she’s a corporate lawyer by profession), Miers...