Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: politics

  • Some Commentary on the GOP Primary from Cuba

    Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, wrote an opinion piece on a Cuban Web site, following a Republican Party presidential candidates’ debate in Florida, in which he argued that the “selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest…

  • An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary | Techdirt

    If you want to understand why we’re all so upset about these bills, read this. The concerns are not hyperbole. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120117/23002717445/updated-analysis-why-sopa-pipa-are-bad-idea-dangerous-unnecessary.shtml

  • Excellent Poster Featuring Lamar Smith and SOPA

    This is great—note how everybody on every side opposes it, making you wonder who exactly ol’ Lamar is representing.

  • Rick Perry Describes the 2012 Presidential Ballot

    If you haven’t already, check out AmericansElect. We are going to have a third candidate next fall, and regardless of who I end up voting for, that is going to be amazing.

  • By the Corporations, For the Corporations

    Remember how Comcast and NBC were merging, and there was all kinds of controversy about it? I’m still not entirely sure what I think the deal itself, except that Comcast has a maddening monopoly on internet access in some areas (including where we used to live in Baltimore) and NBC is one of the hemorrhaging…

  • Heaven is Socialist

    It might ruffle some feathers, but the more I think about it, the less I understand how a “Christian Right” can exist in politics without serious cognitive dissonance. In the all the seething furor against so-called socialism in the United States, they seem to have forgotten that egalitarian values predate Marx. While I’m no theologian,…

  • Abstinence-Only, the Only Way to Fail

    Last week, while the Senate Finance Committee was busily voting down health care reforms supported by doctors and more importantly, the American People, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch tossed in a $50 million line item for abstinence-only sex education. This, despite the fact that one of the GOP’s main concerns about health care reform is the…

  • Thoughts on Health Care Reform

    I think the best thing you can do for health care is have a baseline option that is given to everybody, and make the private people compete for customers to switch to their service instead. That’s the general idea behind having a “public option,” and why it’s so important. Creating competition is a way of…