Skip to content

{ Category Archives } politics

in touch

I spent two hours this afternoon canvassing for Obama. Part of why I’m willing to walk around with a clipboard on a rainy Saturday:

ask your superdelegates to support Obama

Let’s wrap this nomination thing up.
Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/votersforobama”>Ask Superdelegates to Support Obama</a> widget and many other great free widgets at <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com”>Widgetbox</a>!

a bit of patriotic volunteering

I attended my Democratic Party precinct meeting last night, and it turns out nobody in the precinct is in charge of managing the data we have, so I volunteered. We’ll see what that turns into. Also, I proposed a resolution, and it passed with no objections. We’ll see if it makes it up at the [...]

independent oversight is overrated

Who needs it?
Via.

Lessig for Congress

Do you like Larry Lessig? Of course you do! Did you know he might run for Congress? Did you know that he announced he’s considering a run just hours ago and he raised over $1000 in the past half hour via ActBlue? If you’d like to help bring some real change to Congress, I suggest [...]

standing up for Obama and his home church.

Part of me thinks this is flamebait, but even if that’s the case, I feel I can’t ignore it. This guy is a fellow TriLUG member.
The post linked to above essentially makes the argument that Obama is a segregationist (earlier posts on that blog have called him a racist) because his home church has a [...]

yes we can

I know I’m a little late with this, but… the cynic in me didn’t stand a chance against this video:

Now go donate.

Can’t sleep, but there’s hope

There’s hope because of people like this guy:

Via.

Dana Perino: Beleaguered Prevaricator

Ouch.

I suggest jumping to the last minute. It gets pretty good. Also good is an exchange at about 2:45 in.

Lessig on Corruption

Worth watching.

Mentions Yochai Benkler in passing. Praise Paul Jones for assigning Wealth of Networks.