Why I’m Happy about SuperFatTuesday

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

As an Obama supporter, I was originally kind of disappointed at yesterday's results. At first, all the major news outlets called SuperTuesday a huge win for Hillary. But after the final counts are in, it turns out.... not so much: The Clintons just pumped $5 million of their own dollars into ...

Get out and vote this Tuesday!

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Found this at Rebecca MacKinnon's site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebgLiU_0Ys4 Very inspiring, and I agree with Rebecca, Jimmy Carter, and many others that said that Obama will have a healing and inspiring effect that no other candidate could possibly come close to. The Obama vote is now neck and neck with Clinton. Go vote. Then go ...

Probably Woefully Inaccurate Candidate Analysis!

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Here are my results from the 2008 President Selector at SelectSmart. My top two candidate picks rose to the top - Obama and Kucinich. I'm disappointed Kucinich didn't even win, place, or show in Iowa, and it looks like he won't be impacting New Hampshire as well. Interestingly, Clinton, Gore, ...

Chinese Pattern

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I love reading Michael Turton's blog, and I admire both the volume and the quality of his posts on Taiwan and the jostling of this wonderful little place between the political whims of two giants, China and the USA. In response to the Kitty Hawk debacle, he posts something about a ...

Sweet & Sour

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Hu Jintao has issued a brilliant edition to what I call "Sweet & Sour" - the kind of rhetoric that comes out of the PRC that sounds sweet and flowery at first glance, but which is a sour and distasteful statement under the hood: "We would like to make a solemn ...