Monthly Archives: March 2009

I’m not dead (yet).

Nope, still here… just utterly swamped with school work that I still don’t feel like doing. Final exam tomorrow followed by a few days of essay-mode. I should resurface next week. Lots to say, no time to say it.
I think I’ll go for a walk now…

A Day of Goodbyes

So tomorrow is the day that Battlestar Galactica draws to a close and I must say farewell to a cast of characters that I have grown alarmingly attached to. Don’t get me wrong, I love media, especially television, but no show has ever impacted on me the way Battlestar has. If you haven’t

Philosophies of Government.

As the Republican party goes through its very public convulsions trying to find out what they will sell going forward I am struck by a very simple distinction between the two philosophies:
Republicans think that government should NOT help you live your life but should tell you how you can or cannot live it.
Democrats think that