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Give me one good reason why anyone needs an assault weapon

26Feb09

From ABC News:
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
I saw this story on Digg earlier, and people seemed really upset about it, calling the President a lying bastard and whatnot.  First of all, it’s pretty well-known that President Obama [...]


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Palin in comparison

03Oct08

The Vice Presidential Debate tonight was fun to watch, I must say.  The two candidates both did a pretty good job, I think.  They actually debated the issues, and both seemed pretty well prepared.
However, it seemed pretty clear to me that Senator Biden was more prepared than Governor Palin and overall did a better job.  Don’t [...]


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Ignorance and inaction

02Oct07

I like to think of myself as a well-informed person (I do work at a news station, afterall and spend too much time on the internet). However, I’m realizing that I’m not exactly right. You see, lately I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about Burma/Myanmar, and to be honest, I have absolutely [...]


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Michigan shutting down?

30Sep07

Found this story on Digg today…apparently the Michigan government is going to essentially shut down if the legislature can’t balance the budget by midnight tonight. That’s fucking nuts. I guess most essential services are going to stay up and running, but everything else is just going to stop until the budget problem is [...]


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Hungry? Here, have a laptop!

26Sep07

OK, so maybe I’m totally out of line here, but I have a problem with the whole One Laptop Per Child organization. It seems to me like a case of misplaced priorities. They’re producing these cheap laptops to sell overseas to developing countries and presenting it like some sort of life-changing act of [...]


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We don’t got no stinkin’ queers!

25Sep07

So Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad claims that Iran doesn’t have homosexuals…that they quite literally do not exist in Iran. He stated, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran we don’t have this phenomenon. I don’t know who told you that we have this.” Um, how about [...]


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Should teachers be allowed to pack guns?

21Sep07

A teacher in Ashland, Oregon wants to be able to carry a gun with her at school to protect herself from her ex-husband, who hasn’t threatened her with violence.  Should she be allowed to carry the gun?  She claims it’s her Second Amendment right.  I say “no.”  Maybe it’s because I’m a very clear-cut Democrat [...]


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