Not abandoned

Still posting.  First post of 2010.

Richardson and Jackson dialogue

"Man, we need some stuff, let's steal it. Okay, where should we steal from.  I dunno.  Aight, how about the that crappy gas station right next to campus, you down? I'm in, let's roll. Dude you're still wearing UT gear, apparel they ONLY give athletes. Do you think you should change before we go? Nah man, wearing this shit just makes me run faster."

Slip

"They'll put their political survival and their political power being gained over anything else. They'll use anybody and throw anybody away in order to achieve it."

- Rush Limbaugh, validating Freud

Knowledge and Priorities

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
- Eugene McCarthy

What if the Right was Right?

Authentic and productive.

"Despite our verbal proclamations to the contrary, Americans (Christian or otherwise) have such a negative visceral association with the concept of socialism that we-thus far-have been unable to have an authentic, productive conversation about whether greed or compassion is the more moral (and productive) incentive for human beings engaged in the social experiment of the democratic nation-state."

Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers is (was) a success.

CNN.com reports that:

"The most popular car being purchased under the program, according to the White House? The Ford Focus, which boasts up to 35 mpg."

While our clunker-upgraded ride doesn't get quite that high combined MPG, I'm glad that people are choosing to take fuel efficiency more seriously, despite the guy in the article who got a "crew-cab Silverado, four-door" under the program.

It's interesting that the reporter chose to lead off with a counter-example (fuel-guzzling truck) to the government presented data. Seems like a sign of conservative bias rather than left-wing bias.

Common cause?

Apparently Islamist regimes and Republicans have gathered around a common enemy: Barack Obama.

The AP reports that:

"Republican senators criticized President Barack Obama on Sunday for not taking a tougher public stand"

and Al Jazeera reports that Ahmadinejad:

"has told the US [...] to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs"

So, believing both the Iranian regime and the GOP, the Obama administration is oxymoronically "timidly" and "passively" interfering in the domestic affairs of Iran.