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Election day is just two days away and the campaign is heating up. Candidates are out working to get their supporters out, there’s more news than you can shake a stick at, and Election Commissions all over the state are making their final preparations to the deluge of voters on election day. Yesterday the...
The problem with writing a post about Happy Hour on your lunch break is the cruel reality that you’re still half a day away from Happy Hour. Then there are things that happen between the time I’m writing this and when it’s going to post, like, oh I dunno, the 3pm presser with Willie...
Just to prove how intent Senate Republicans are in turning the United States into a backwater of patchwork state laws, they’ve picked their new enemy, the 14th Amendment. Under the guise of an attack on illegal immigration, Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey “Huckleberry Hound” Graham (R-SC) have hatched a plan to go after...
Turns out, ending those tax cuts only negatively impacts people who make more than $300,000. Who knew? Oh yeah, just about everyone. Check out Southern Beale for the money quote.
The race for the 9th Congressional district Democratic nomination is, perhaps, the race that I’m watching with more interest than any other. Sure, there are contests with greater impact across the state and the county, but the contest between Congressman Steve Cohen and former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is epic, as far as I’m...
I’ve been looking at text a lot over the weekend, which got me to thinking about ASCII Art. I remember seeing ASCII Art for the first time back in the early 80′s when I still lived in Osceola. It was printed on that old green and white lined paper. I remember it because it...
It’s been an exasperatin’ week. I haven’t written anything over here since Tuesday. A 50 hour work week on top of a research project that’s dominating what little spare time I have will do that to ya. I’m not complaining, just explaining. Sorry the writing has been so scarce this week, but big thanks...
We all have hills to die on. Ideas that we aren’t willing to give up for anything. It’s not often that we get the chance to speak on those issues in a forum or to a body that has direct oversight over them, but when that opportunity arises it’s very important that you take...
Back in the days of yore, when I was traveling some 250 days a year I would find occasion to head out and do something fun in the city that I happened to be in. Since I was in Las Vegas a lot, it often meant that the closest thing to good clean fun...
The economy in the US, and worldwide for that matter, is acting like a person who nearly drowned. When you’re trying to save someone’s life in that scenario, you give them more oxygen. When you have an economy that’s suffering from a similar problem, you try to pump more money into it. So when...