Category: Politics

  • Politicians are weird

    I didn’t watch this debate, but I read this recap of it at the New York Times, and it only makes me wish I’d seen the debate myself because from the point of view of the blogger who’s covered it here, it sounds just so weird and sometimes funny.

  • Scaping the Street in Downtown Youngstown

    This Saturday was Streetscape in Youngstown’s downtown. A couple of hundred volunteers from the community came out to plant flowers and to landscape the downtown together. It was a really awesome thing to be a part of, working side by side sometimes with people from your city that you know, and with people from your…

  • Beginnings and endings

    I came across this really good interview with my city’s mayor (click on the February 8th Smart City radio interview under the Broadcasts section), talking about the history of Youngstown and the current situation here, as the community attempts to restructure and revitalize after decades of economic and political disintegration.  It’s a very different story here…

  • Laura Bush wants you to know…

    …that no one is suffering over the war in Iraq more than she and the president. Tell that to the military troops and the civilians who are DYING over there, Laura, not to mention each and every one of their families and all of their friends. I’ve never seen a president and first lady, nor…

  • Who’s a zombie? I am, I am

    I am sick with allergies that started a head cold that eventually turned into full-blown achy, moaning, zombiefied foot-dragging slouching through the apartment for the past two days.   This made me sicker: “What’s most troubling about Senator Reid’s comments yesterday is his defeatism,” Mr. Cheney said. “It is cynical to declare that the war is…

  • Super powers

    This made me laugh today.  More, please. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0MLl-fxuo] Also, apparently Bill Clinton thinks Al Gore may run for president again.  I wonder if he’s guessing or knows something we don’t know.

  • Is this the singularity?

    I love interesting statistics like the one in this video from Youtube, which as been making the rounds among blogs and sites concerned with economic development lately.  I feel like I should be watching Braveheart or something when I watch it, but you’ll get the point.  We’re, uh…a little behind, I think.  The world’s moving faster…

  • Ytown on Stage

    Last night at the Stage was just the most wonderful experience.  There were so many people there, so much talent and creativity and expression, and so much of it just really really good.  My friend Brooke does the most amazing things for this city and I sometimes wonder if enough people actually understand it.  I…

  • Standing up

    I love this kid.  Let us have more people with his courage. Let us have less people like the censoring, word-phobic, body-phobic school librarians mentioned in this article. The ones that haven’t been quoted out of context, that is. (Thanks, Gwenda). 😉 And read Scott Westerfeld’s response to it as well. 

  • Kant on peace

    Lately I’ve doing some translation work for a Japanese publisher that is making a bilingual book on peace for teens, using Immanuel Kant’s philosophy and theory of how peace is established and maintained.  So I’ve been reading Kant in English and Japanese to do this. I’d read a little of Kant previously but not enough, so it’s…