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I really want to write about how truly odd it is that somebody, somewhere, is really excited about purchasing 27 DVDs of Miami Vice—every single episode!—and is only waiting for the price to drop to a reasonable level. Somebody, somewhere received the same daily sales e-mail from Buy.com that I did and then excitedly, frantically [...]

I’m sure I’ve said the same thing fifteen times before, in various ways.
A nice and mostly balanced interpretation of what the voting in Massachusetts means for Obama over at the New York Times. However, it reinforces in my mind how difficult it is to be a consistent politician in this country because of the contradictory positions held by most [...]

I usually try to keep my political positions somewhat in the background on this webpage—notice I say my positions, not my ideology or worldview, which is impossible to bury—but one issue that I’ve previously stated that I am 100% in favor of is healthcare reform. I’m not speaking of a single Democratic or  Republican bill, [...]

I don’t have any particularly favorable or unfavorable feelings towards our state’s junior Senator, Claire McCaskill. She is a Hickman graduate (Go Kewpies!), so she gets points for that. She seems to have made a bit of a name for herself, primarily thanks to backing Obama early in the primaries and then being richly rewarded with substantial prominent face [...]

So the main story on all the news sites today deals with the Taxpayers’ March on Washington, and I’m struck by how incoherent the message is. I’m not sure I’d ever attend a major march because the ideas tend to get mixed in ways that don’t make sense. You’re always left scratching your head and [...]

I don’t have much to say about the death of Ted Kennedy—in many ways he was a product of an era before my time, and I’ve always been impressed with the Kennedys but immune to their “magic”—but it also made me think about how much politics seems to have changed for the worse. (Yes, I [...]

So there is a lot of sad and funny irony in the entire Tea Party experience, but my favorite comes from today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kenneth Gladney is a Tea Party supporter and one of the protesters recently hurt at a forum in Melville “when, he says, he was attacked by members of the Service Employees [...]

What a strange, disturbing story: The State of California has declared a fiscal emergency and instead of sending out tax refunds, education grants, money owed to small businesses for purchases, and funding for counties to maintain essential services is sending out IOUs that can’t be cashed until October! Try paying your rent or credit card [...]

Speaking of morality: Wouldn’t it be great to be a former president who continues to appall people 35 years later? I’m fascinated by Nixon because he’s such a mess of contradictions. People may hate the politics and policies of Bush and Clinton, but Nixon is different. You can respect some of his accomplishment and at [...]

As the title says, it has been a really strange couple of days in the news. Before I get a chance to process any event, something else happens. C’mon, I’m still working my way through Wednesday’s amazing 2-0 soccer victory by the U.S. over Spain, the #1 team in the world. Easily the best game I have [...]