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Those Big Jerks

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 17, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Apparently, there’s a war on. And this is a new thing in the sense that different people who have never before been killed…are being killed. This has brought loads of condemnation upon the killers, though I must note, a lot fewer people have been killed in this particular war-in-progress than the last major conflict started [...]

Playing Not To Lose

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The world can be a great sunshiney ball of happiness. But clearly, there are things wrong with it that need to be fixed NOW through community and working together and impeaching President Bush and mollifying those downtrodden Middle Eastern folk who’ve been oppressed by cartoons and oil barons all their lives (Halliburton, I’m looking at [...]

Spinning the Iraq Elections

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 31, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

One of the big problems the Left has with the right wing’s jubilation at the success of the Iraqi elections is the “after the fact” justification for the war. Lefties like to claim that building up democracy in Iraq was never a primary objective for the administration nor its supporters, and that “current justifications” now [...]

On Influence, Numbers, and Quality Control

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 9, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

All hail the influence of the blogosphere! Which is hardly the watershed paradigm it was purported to be, if you believe this CNN/Money survey found on Professor Bainbridge, though depending on who you talk to, blogs are in fact, all that and a bag of chips, unless they’re under fire for pushing misleading exit poll [...]

My Sex Is Better Than Yours

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 19, 2004 ⋅ One comment

According to this poll, more Republicans are satisfied with their sex lives than Democrats. The poll roughly correspond to Bush’s lead over Kerry according to Gallup et al, so I’m not sure how much I trust these numbers (About as much as I trust an anti-war documentary by Jane Fonda), but they do suggest that [...]

Definitely No Votes For Leipzig

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Jonathan Freedland writes that the world should have a say in United States elections. My first thought was that the piece is a satire, exposed by Freedland’s Swiftian name and uncommon ideas cobbled together in a pseudo-serious manner. He even uses the phrase “a modest proposal”. It’s a poor satire, however; a sad descendent of [...]

9/11 Apology

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 13, 2004 ⋅ 4 comments

Freemuslims.org apologizes for 9/11, for Darfur, for Beslan, Madrid, and countless other acts of barbarism and terrorism. This is by far the single most responsible thing I’ve heard a Muslim say in the past three years. Sad that the sentiments of this writer are not echoed by all of Islam.
It is a start, though. Bravo [...]

John Kerry, Chess Player

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 10, 2004 ⋅ 4 comments

A recent Reuters headline proclaimed “KERRY SAYS BUSH’S IRAQ WAR COSTING U.S. AT HOME”. Bush’s Iraq War. It’s his war, that interloper, that election fraudster. No, Kerry didn’t say those latter names, though it’s implied. Bush stole the election, now he owns the war. His war, not his election. In fact, it’s the fact that [...]

Convention Bounce

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 3, 2004 ⋅ 10 comments

Kerry’s people are happy about his position in the polls and in the public’s mind after the Democratic National Convention left Kerry with a “negative bounce”.
Democrats were dismissive. “We’re extremely pleased with where John Kerry and John Edwards are,” Mary Beth Cahill, Kerry’s campaign manager, said Monday.
Two other post-convention polls released Monday also showed [...]

Send John Kerry

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 27, 2004 ⋅ 5 comments

Transcript of Bill Clinton’s speech last night at the DNC.
John Kerry and John Edwards, have good ideas:
- To make this economy work again for middle-class Americans;
- To restore fiscal responsibility;
- To save Social Security; to make healthcare more affordable and college more available;
- To free us from dependence on foreign oil and create new jobs [...]

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