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My Civic Duty
2006-04-22 – 09:47
Last Thursday I had the jury duty, for the first time in MA (2nd time ever). I drove to Lowell at 8:00, parked, went to a little room, watched an instructional video, got a 45 minute break and walked around Lowell, went back to the little room, sat there until 12:00, then drove home.
The consensus [...]
Clones
2005-05-29 – 08:40
I heard an interview on the Imus program with a senator (not sure which one; I think they are interchangeable, like Legos). This guy gave a reasonably nice overview of the technology behind stem cells, along with mild rebukes to the religious nut jobs who think that cloning is against God’s law or something (no [...]
Enfranchise me!
2004-11-02 – 03:45
Today I voted. This was a wasted effort — other than forcing me to give fleeting thought to the value inherent in living within a democratic society — because I live in Massachusetts. The act of voting itself was mostly painless. I went to the high school gym, told the lady my address, got a [...]
Slashdot queries Badnarik
2004-09-20 – 03:38
Slashdot recently gave its readers the opporunity to ask questions of libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik, the man for whom I have chosen to vote. His responses are interesting; further proof for me that I agree with the philosophy if not the particulars. Here are the questions and Badnarik’s responses.
I, Libertarian
2004-09-14 – 09:42
I give up on politics. Bush stinks; Kerry stinks. They each have a few good ideas — I guess — but who cares. Our society is so bloated with regulation and law that we all must walk precarious paths in our private and professional lives (check that alliteration!). And does all this regulation and law [...]
Holy crap do I believe in profiling!
2004-07-17 – 07:55
I just read an article entitled Terror in the Skies, Again? and nearly had to go change my shorts. What a horrifically frightening experience to have to sit there for four hours and watch people work to blow up your plane. I mean, those seats are uncomfortable enough without having a terrorist bumping your elbow [...]
Rumsfeld member of Inner Party?
2004-07-04 – 09:48
A passage from George Orwell’s 1984:
Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite toward him and began dictating in Big Brother’s familiar style: a style at once military and pedantic, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them (”What lessons do we learn from this [...]
I fixed the federal budget
2004-04-09 – 09:43
Using the National Budget Simulation I cut spending by 20% across the board. This allowed me to increase the 2003 tax cuts by 50%, resulting in a budget surplus of ~11 billion dollars. I’m done fantasizing now; back to work.
My thoughts on gay marriage
2004-02-23 – 09:19
Being a highly-educated middle-class non-ethnic non-married non-homosexual male I feel uniquely qualified to have an opinion on the issue of gay marriage.
I know little of the history of marriage. However, I think it is safe to say that marriage has always been in the purview of the church. Through most of history the church was [...]