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Category Archives: Politics

From the Greek Poly=many and Ticks=blood-sucking parasites. Seriously, open thoughts on the politics of the ages.

Generalization: I hate the suburbs

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:53 am

Well, maybe “hate” is too strong a word. Let’s go for “dislike”; perhaps even “feel contempt for.” I deal with a mixture of city kids and suburban kids. True, some of the city kids can be a problem. But they don’t hold a candle to the suburban ones. once they learn the rules, most of […]

Radio’s Talking Heads are happy

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:18 am

Local Talk Radio mavens are happy: For weeks (months) they’ve been howling with rage because our local police force hadn’t arrested someone for slashing some Republican tires on election eve. Even though no evidence whatsoever was brought forward in support of the claim, it was trumpeted as Siginificant Vote Tampering, rather than simple vandalism. One […]

It’s the economy, stupid

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:03 am

How quickly they forget. The democrats now are sitting back and licking their wounds. They think they have done their best shot, and it wasn’t good enough. What next? And, since I think I’m a good representative of the voter they want to appeal to (and because I love to give advice) here’s why they […]

Thoughts I thought

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:01 am

…as I waited into the night. 1) It didn’t take long for the Wisconsin voters to show they hadn’t been taken in by an empty suit. Feingold by a hefty margin. It could have been an interesting race had Feingold’s opponent had more than one firing synapse. It was like watching a badly written AI […]

Life in the Battleground

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 10:54 am

Wisconsin’s a “battleground state” so everyone with a political axe to grind is swinging it my way. In the last 24 hours I’ve been called 15 times by political phone banks, from the Sierra Club to Right to Life. Along the way I’ve developed a few techniques for maintaining my sanity I’d like to share. […]

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