#Politicians

Shamelessly ashamed

A married congressman sent out some cheesy self-shots via twitter and whatever else.  He’s got some problems that, as far as anyone can tell, are totally irrelevant to anything, harmed no one other than himself, but his party wants to

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Heavy thoughts on a Thursday in June 2011

It’s not heavy it’s my data: Today’s picture is from 1956, and shows an IBM hard drive. This unit would be used to store information, not unlike your memory stick, thumb drive, or camera memory card. The hard drive pictured

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Voting with joy and other psychosocial diversions

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governatorship will soon be drawing to a close, amidst dismal approval ratings.  Yet I recall that, as with perhaps no other vote I’ve cast since I reached voting age, I took pleasure in punching out the box next

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Why is Sarah Palin treating Glenn Beck as though he's normal?

No one much will ever likely care that Sarah Palin endorsed Glenn Beck in a puffy little capsule bio for Time Magazine’s 2010 list of 100 influential people, but I think it was a bad move for her – in

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