Work and screenPlay
A few personal updates: 1) Our contract was renewed, resulting in a nice raise for this blogger at his day job. 2) My temporary gig as a supervisor has been renewed as a second...
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Compulsive Liar
I watched “The Informant!” over the weekend, starring Matt Damon and Scott Bakula. We had planned to see “The Invention of Lying” but backed out at the last minute after considering the mixed reviews....
No Surprises
As I predicted, the fall elections were not competitive. The election drew 2000 fewer people to the polls than last year, but still posted the 2nd best fall turnout ever. An Independent and a...
The Benefit of SG Hindsight
Tonight will see another terrible result for the independent movement at the University of Florida – as virtually all fall elections are. We average 31% of the vote in fall compared to 41% in...
The Media Created These Communist Czars
One of the latest manufactured controversies is this notion of “czars”. Either they are new ways of titling White House staff or they are unaccountable “super-bureaucrats” that supposedly have more power than Cabinet members....
A Drunk College Student Does The Right Thing
I was surprised to hear of the story this week about William Sedgwick, a UF student government official who was arrested on a DUI charge and resigned. Eight years ago, UF had a student...
The Irony Of Anti-Government Government
Steve Benen over at Political Animal notes some distinct irony in the teabaggers’ protests last week. This goes beyond that old saw that the Tea Party organizers want people to ‘keep your government hands...
Big Numbers
Politicians like big numbers. Big polling leads, big campaign contributions, big office staffs, big earmarks – big anything. Partly due to budgetary forecasting and partly due to the juvenile “compare my legislative wad against...