June 2010

War on Drugs: FAIL

Good question for tonight’s candidates forum: What’s your position on the US “war on drugs?” I believe in decriminalization of recreational drugs, taxation of pot, and pouring the money into treatment and education. Yep- it’s radical for a candidate to say that- but, I’m with Albert Einstein on this one. Don’t know why I’m talking Read More

Absentee ballots arriving- as well as….

I got my absentee ballot today. Lots to fill out on the outside of the envelope- lots of places where the Board of Elections can start asking questions. Didn’t check this box- fill this in right- we’ll toss it. I’ll be extra careful- in fact, I’ll make a video of the process for people to Read More

DDN picks the sacrificial lamb

The wise ones at the Dayton Daily News, the ones who endorse Mike Turner every time (even though they don’t agree with him), have chosen a 25-year-old college dropout who has “been involved in political causes for a long time” to go head-to-head with Turner for Congress. Yes- the same people who endorsed Rhine McLin, Read More

Quicktake on the DDN editorial board meeting

Guy Fogle looks like a politician. Joe Roberts sounds like a politician. And then, there’s me. That’s my take from the screening by the Dayton Daily News editorial board of the three candidates for the special democratic primary for OH-3 which takes place on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The questions were softies- as if the Read More

Concrete vs. liquid

“Liquidity” was the invention the wizards of Wall Street came up with to create a lot of fake wealth and transactional opportunities for them to siphon off “investors’s” money for themselves. The great run-up in GDP thanks to all this liquid capital came to a crashing halt in the fall of 2009 when the banks Read More

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