Digits removed, Contact added

I’ve removed my email address and phone number from the right sidebar and replaced it with a “contact” form that can be found in the top menu section, next to “About.”

One day all my tweaks to Adverb will be complete and I’ll be left with nothing to do except count blades of grass in the front yard on the weekends.

3 commentsEmail Article Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 05:26pm Mack Simpson

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Sunday Politics (1)

Full disclosure: I joined– and made donations to– MOVEON.org during the last general election. I haven’t sent them cash in over a year due to the organization’s increasingly radicalized leanings. I also have no strong opinion on the Lieberman/Lamont race, other than to say Lieberman shouldn’t make a gambit to desperately cling to power running as an Independent. I believe in straight talking, Left-leaning, fiscally conservative, Centrist politics and I support Kinky Friedman for Governor here in the state of Texas. May the God of Your Choice help us all if he wins… and even more if he loses.

I try not to go into politics very often here. Not that I’m not politically minded (or motivated), it’s simply that I try to keep the ad discussion centered on, well, ad discussion. Call me funny that way.

Once upon a time, I had a separate domain (BONGA.org, now the home of a small restaurant chain in Korea) for discussing such things. I let that domain go after the big blog crash of ‘04 so, now, any political commentary will have to take place here.

I promise to keep it to a minimum.

Today, TIME Magazine published a piece by Joe Klein (”Three Cheers for Triangulation“) in which he compares and contrasts the views of the “Wingnuts” (as exemplified by Dick Cheney) and the “Blognuts” (exemplified by MOVEON.org’s Eli Pariser) in the wake of the Lieberman’s primary defeat at the hands of Connecticut Democrat Ned Lamont last week that’s worth a read. Outside of wishing others would read it, I also drew out this quote of note:

[MOVEON.org’s] Pariser calls for an era of “bolder, principle-driven politics.” But we’ve suffered all the boldness we can handle these past six years. In the end, the real alternative to Bush’s Republican extremism isn’t Democratic extremism. It is bipartisan moderation—which has the additional advantage of being the highest form of patriotism and the only route to victory in a time of war.

Finally, a Sunday on which I can say “amen” without hesitation.

2 commentsEmail Article Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 11:35am Mack Simpson

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