Category Archive: politics

Who’s standing up the little guys, eh?

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Freakin’ brilliant. ... Read more...

The New McCarthyism

Media Matters lays out a fairly compelling comparison: With a brief analysis, in part: Beck’s fixation on a sinister communist threat undermining America’s capitalist democracy would be entirely laughable were it not revealing of somethi... Read more...

Wow, yes he did

(THIS IS A DAY LATE…Hey, it’s been a busy couple of days). Election night was one of those nights that, for the rest of their lifetimes, people will remember where they were and what they were doing. A good friend of mine lives in Amster... Read more...

Emerging from The Cone of Silence

On a day where perhaps more information was flowing from more sources and through more channels than at any time in history, I spent 5 hours sitting in a “cone of silence” – a 737 heading east from Seattle to NYC. I fly all the time... Read more...

Election Day Reflections: My own personal campaign drama

I grew up in a political family – my mom was active in local politics down in Silicon Valley when I was young, so I recall precinct walking, riding in holiday parades, and trying to sit still through the annual State of the City addresses, a to... Read more...