I miss my hair.
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04:38:15 PM,
Thursday 26 February 2004
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Trying to increase voter turnout is completely backwards. If votes mattered more, more people would vote. Voter turnout is an indicator of how much people care to wield the amount of power they have. People understand when they're effectively disenfranchised, and they don't vote. Bribing or coercing them to vote in pointless elections simply masks the symptom. Unless there are some state or local elections I care about, I'm not going to vote in November, because no matter how close the election is in the electoral college, the election I'm voting in will not be. I don't get to vote for the president. I vote for the massachusetts electors, and I trust my fellow state residents, as a whole, not do to anything I wouldn't do. I'd love to vote for president, but I can't. How much the democrat wins Massachusetts by doesn't make a lick of difference.
Have I mentioned that I want a federally elected Senate with proportional representation? People complain about pork-barrel politics. The only way to make the federal government responsible for the good of the whole is federal elections.
While we're reforming, cabinet level ministers need to be members of congress. Maybe even the Senate. Would give all those senators something to fill their days with, for one thing.
Enough.
Edited: My first sentence was "Trying to increase voter turnout has always seemed completely backwards to me." Ugh. For one thing, it hasn't always seemed that way. I lead a politically sheltered childhood. For another, you really should be able to work out that this is opinion and not empirical truth without the disclaimers. I don't like my prose, but if I edit it clauses tend to come unhooked and float about causing widespread confusion and embarrassment.
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01:18:15 PM,
Wednesday 25 February 2004
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I appear to be a hypocrite. Outing political adulterers doesn't seem out of bounds to me. I don't like it, but it doesn't sicken me, media-responsibility wise. I don't have much sympathy for them. Unless, of course, they're being outed as gay at the same time; this Governor scandal seems much more questionable than the (completely discredited) Kerry rumours, regardless of whether it is true. I can only plead that ordinary adulterers don't need to worry about being stoned much anymore, so they don't have such a good reason for lying.
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12:54:04 PM,
Wednesday 25 February 2004
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How does your state assign delegates in the primary? Find out here.
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09:21:52 PM,
Tuesday 24 February 2004
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How about this?
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03:38:37 PM,
Tuesday 24 February 2004
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I'm making a change to my sidebar. I may very well regret it.
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03:15:13 PM,
Tuesday 24 February 2004
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I have a quite impressive array of theological opinions for someone who has never believed in God. For instance, I know that having a large set of job requirements for God would be sinfully proud, were the God I don't believe in to exist.
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02:46:06 PM,
Tuesday 24 February 2004
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Ebert, a lapsed alterboy, nearly makes me want to see The Passion, as part of my ongoing attempt to see what all the fuss is about this God thing. I'd almost certainly watch if it weren't for an aversion to watching people be tortured. But at least here, it isn't simply for giggles. I'm curious how many of the people who object to the torture in the Passion objected to the end of reservoir dogs. Also, his complaining that a passion play focuses on the Passion and not the sermon on the mount seems strange to me. I'm still working on some good primary source reading, godless-yet-still-protestant outrage against Newsweek suggesting a while back that the Gospels are dangerous and should only be read with a professional guide steering you away from outmoded interpretations.
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01:41:26 PM,
Tuesday 24 February 2004
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The Moon is very close to Venus tonight. Probably a general purpose omen. Go look. Also, if carefully inspected, the trees appear to have buds. The airplane just happened to be crossing the ecliptic as I sat trying to compose something with the branches.
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06:03:36 PM,
Monday 23 February 2004
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Adam Felber sympathetically explains Nader's decision. I think this is probably about right.
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11:43:55 AM,
Monday 23 February 2004
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10:22:46 PM,
Saturday 21 February 2004
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My new favorite coin. Not sure where I got it. Noticably less heft than american coins. The mouse rollover thing was Erika's idea. Some initial difficulties with " appearing where it was not wanted were circumvented by using the bloglet editor, which doesn't do such things.
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09:50:03 PM,
Saturday 21 February 2004
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