Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Impeachment

28Jan08

(Not so) lately I have been hearing the cry of the frustrated, exhausted masses for certain public officials to be impeached. Every time I heard that, I started thinking, “What does it take to impeach a president?” So I started asking people and the interesting thing about all the answers is that they started with, [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: “Childrens do learn.” Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the [...]

Spin is powerful. Beware of spin and try to use it to your advantage when you can. Right now the spin on the war in Iraq is that, with the successes recently claimed by U.S. President George W. Bush and General David Petraeus, we will be able to bring home 30,000 troops to their families [...]

I have just read the paper (USA Today) for the first time in a long time. I tend to do that while I’m traveling for business and eating breakfast. I’m glad I chose today to read the paper because there were several articles describing recent Supreme Court rulings. Barriers eased on election ads Federal Election [...]

GIMPShop

09Feb07

I’ve been using The GIMP since I stopped pirating software a few years ago. I am by no means a graphic artist (more like a graphic tragedy), but for those who want to become an open-source software user and this want the capabilities of a powerful image manipulation program, The GIMP is a great alternative [...]


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