The first thing that everyone needs to think about first when the topic of gay marriage in America comes up is that it really, truly is neither about religion nor politics. Okay, it is about politics to some extent because the problem with gay marriage is that it will impact tax law, which is something [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
November 5, 2008
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In Which The Continuing Countdown To Disillusionment Is Discussed
By MDS in Opinion, Politics, SocietyLook, I understand why people care about the Obama campaign. I really do. Hope, the promise of a New Day, the inauguration of someone who is neither Republican nor born with the last name Bush, the unalloyed excitement that attaches itself to Obama simply because his youth dictates it on a subconscious level. I really [...]
September 30, 2008
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We Are Losing Our Minds
By MDS in Opinion, Politics, SocietyIf I had a dollar for every time I have read or heard “Bush has put us in this mess” (or whatever variation) over the last four years, I would be retiring to Curacao in about a week. To a degree, I completely understand why people have this view because it is the exact same [...]
June 9, 2008
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Some Clinton Thoughts
By MDS in Opinion, PoliticsBefore I delve into a couple of Hillary-centric things (you may have heard about her on the news this weekend), I must include a preface about Hillary and her husband William. Here it is: I do not like the Clintons. I think that most of the successes of the William Clinton Administration were grossly overexaggerated [...]
March 12, 2008
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Barack Obama, Meet Frank Viola
By MDS in Humor, Opinion, PoliticsWhen I was eight years old my friends and I used the following ironclad rule when trading baseball cards: if Player A recently had a good game, his card was worth at least two other cards. The only possible wrinkles to this rule were A) players like Cal Ripken, Jr., Wade Boggs, Nolan Ryan, or [...]
September 11, 2007
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9/11
By MDS in Opinion, PoliticsRegardless of what you think of our current Administration or what’s going on in Iraq, almost 3,000 people died six years ago when a small group of people decided that a much larger group of people needed to die. I know it’s become very fashionable to bash everything Republican, applaud everything Democrat, and laugh with [...]
April 18, 2007
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Stop Looking At The Light Switch
By MDS in Opinion, PoliticsOne of the things to come out of the Don Imus fiasco is that why should a guy be fired for saying things that are very tame in relation to what hip hop artists say in their music or project through their image. While there is some validity to that train of thought it doesn’t [...]
April 12, 2007
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The Problem With Don Imus
By MDS in Opinion, PoliticsAs I’m sure everyone knows by now Don Imus has been fired by CBS after information came to light late last week that tied Imus to fifteen murders throughout Mississippi in the mid-60′s. It appeared that Imus, before becoming a popular and controversial radio talk show host, would stalk and hunt teenage black women and [...]
January 5, 2007
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I Haven’t Been This Excited About Politics Since I Did Cocaine With John Ashcroft!
By MDS in Opinion, PoliticsIn case you haven’t heard yet Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House. In my heart of hearts I know this means something significant but I don’t know how to quantify it so I’ll just jump on the bandwagon that the Media is currently driving and just say that this is the [...]