you know that thing people sometimes say, when they’re trying not to sound racist or bigoted, that only makes them sound vaguely racist/bigoted as well as kind of hokey and old-fashioned… they say something like:
I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow, orange, purple, whatever…
because sure, there are yellow people. and when they refer to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘election’
November 3, 2008
McMarginalized
October 31, 2008
voter fraud vs. voter suppression
To here the news lately, you’d think we live in some third-world dictatorship, unable to administer a fair election.
The press keeps touting the fact that we are due for the greatest voter turnout of all time. One group, which tends to be Republican and/or conservative, spin tales of fraudulent voter registration rolls — of elections [...]
October 7, 2008
“invest in college affordability”
this was something Obama said in the debates tonight, but I have no idea what it might possibly mean.
how do you invest in college “affordability”? invest in technology that makes delivery of higher educational ’services’ more affordable? or are they just talking about cutting the cost of college through some subsidies/loan-programs?
college has never been so [...]
May 12, 2008
pictures say thousands of words
the graphs are the price of futures contracts for each candidate for their respective party nomination. the basics of these futures is that they pay out $100 if the candidate wins and $0 if they lose. so it would have been sweet to buy on Obama’s dip (below $25) back in October ‘07 and have [...]
