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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Thieves in High Places
We're watching the late returns while plugged into the net, where we're getting news of vote suppression and other shenanigans in Ohio and Florida. It says a lot about the Republican party that they can't win by asking people for their votes. They need to actually prevent a lot of people from voting in order to make their numbers. (The rest they can cover with lies propagated by the wholly Republican-owned media.) I can't support any party that actually tries to take votes away. It shows a profound contempt for the very concept of democracy. It goes hand-in-hand with the Republicans' cult of personality, their fascination with a President they perceive as chosen by God, and their exultation of a "CEO President". It's not off the track to call the Republican Party Royalist, if not outright Fascist. We are on track for a very bad situation in our country, regardless of whether Bush succeeds in stealing tonight's election, but it will be worse, last longer and cost more if he does take it.
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We're watching the late returns while plugged into the net, where we're getting news of vote suppression and other shenanigans in Ohio and Florida. It says a lot about the Republican party that they can't win by asking people for their votes. They need to actually prevent a lot of people from voting in order to make their numbers. (The rest they can cover with lies propagated by the wholly Republican-owned media.) I can't support any party that actually tries to take votes away. It shows a profound contempt for the very concept of democracy. It goes hand-in-hand with the Republicans' cult of personality, their fascination with a President they perceive as chosen by God, and their exultation of a "CEO President". It's not off the track to call the Republican Party Royalist, if not outright Fascist. We are on track for a very bad situation in our country, regardless of whether Bush succeeds in stealing tonight's election, but it will be worse, last longer and cost more if he does take it.