You Wouldn’t Buy Our Shitty Cars . . . »
By Dave Hitt on Dec 11, 2008 in Bad Business, Politics | 1 Comment
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Category: Politics
P.J. O’Rourke on the Demise of Conservatism »
By Dave Hitt on Dec 5, 2008 in Politics | 1 Comment
I’ve been a fan of O’Rourke’s since back when the National Lampoon was funny. His articles on world politics have always been not only insightful, but funny as hell. It’s not often you can get Smartenized while laughing. His article “We Blew It” is generating a fair amount of buzz, but I wanted to point […]
How to Resurrect the Republican Party »
By Dave Hitt on Nov 20, 2008 in Politics | 12 Comments
The Republican Part is in shambles. They are now a minority in congress, and more importantly, they’re regarded as far-right fundamentalists by many Americans. They’ve allowed the fundies to take over the party, and the results have been disastrous. They’ve abandoned their core principles. They claim to be the party of small government, but Bush […]
Don’t You Dare Buy Tickets to Obama’s Inauguration »
By Dave Hitt on Nov 11, 2008 in Politics | 2 Comments
The 1969 Woodstock Festival was the defining moment of my generation. Nearly a half million people attended, and twelve million of them will eagerly tell you about being there. I’m wondering if the inauguration of Obama will be this generation’s defining moment. How many hundreds of thousands of people will be crowding the capital to […]
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of a Memorable Election Campaign »
By Dave Hitt on Nov 6, 2008 in Politics | 0 Comments
It’s over. Finally! I enjoy the theater of politics (and am fully aware that it is nothing but theater) but this was like watching Warhol’s movie “Empire” (a single eight hour shot of the Empire State building) without taking a pee break. The Good In every election there is fraud, chicanery and a bit of […]
Make Sure You Vote. Or Don’t. »
By Dave Hitt on Nov 2, 2008 in Politics | 0 Comments
More than a half century ago Emma Goldman said “If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal.” Now we’re all being encouraged to vote vote vote, rock the vote, get out the vote, make your heard, push for change, to blah blah blah blah blah… I used to think people who didn’t vote had no […]
The Economy Just Got a Lot Worse – For Me »
By Dave Hitt on Oct 29, 2008 in Bad Business, Politics | 20 Comments
My company just laid off about 20% of their workforce, and I was one of the causalities. Now I get to go job hunting in an economy that’s sinking faster than Palin’s image as a folksy soccer mom. Oh joy. This is the reality of working in IT. For every IT worker who has been […]