Tag Archives: Politics

Why I’m not voting

By alex | Published: 11/7/2006
Happy Election Day. I’m one of many people not voting. I know, people died for that right. I also know that I don’t like ritual for the sake of ritual, and my vote really doesn’t matter much. Especially in a district where there are not a lot of chances of an upset. I suppose I […]
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Abstinence, evolution, and technology

By alex | Published: 11/1/2006
This is probably obvious to everyone in the world but, perhaps, me. I’m so used to the idea that resistance to technology comes in the form of the Unibomber-esque, hyper-educated liberal humanist gone bad, that I somehow missed the consistent expression of technological resistance present in policies guided by the religious right. The plain reading […]
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Should he go?

By alex | Published: 10/31/2006
I’m in the midst of designing my graduate media law class for next semester. Even though it isn’t directly part of the interactive communication major (it’s required of all graduate students in the School of Communications, I think), I’m taking a heavily “interactive” leaning to it. That means that instead of spending 80% of the […]
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Best… war… ever

By alex | Published: 9/11/2006
Great trailer for The Best War Ever. “Instead of listening to some of the best experts in their own government, they plugged their ears, closed their eyes, drank the Kool Aid, and marched the United States into a swamp.”
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