Politics
Entries related to things political.
The politics of baseball
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 10/28/2004 - 00:30You know, when Kim entered the race for State Rep in our heavily Republican district, I figured she had about as much chance of winning as the Red Sox had of sweeping the World Series after coming back from being down three games in the playoffs, and having it culminate during a lunar eclipse.
The way Kim's campaign is going, I still think the chances are about the same.
Aldon
Representative Democracy
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 10/27/2004 - 09:50(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
According to his blog, Josh Ferguson has finally voted. With the Blogger’s for Bush banner on his site, I expect that I probably would have voted differently than he did on many issues. However, is blog entry about voting has some very important comments.
He lives in California and notes that he and his wife spent six hours studying the 24 different propositions on his ballot. He writes about this:
Connecticut Doctor's for Poor Public Policy
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 10/26/2004 - 10:51In a recent blog entry, I wrote about the 'Connecticut Doctor's for Good Medicine'.
This is a PAC that that is supporting an anti-abortion activist who is campaigning against PACs.
The American Medical Students Association disagrees with the policies that the PAC are promoting.
Now, they are handing out vicious attack ads like this, and this.
Please check here, and here to see if your doctor is participating in this vicious attack group. If so, please let your doctor know that you do not approve of such conduct.
Encouraging or discouraging voters
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 10/23/2004 - 22:03(This was originally published in Greater Democracy)
Back during the Republican National Convention, I had the opportunity to hear what a few conservatives where saying about voter fraud in the coming election. I wrote up comments about it here.
Back then I wrote about John Fund, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and in 1982 a chief investigative reporter for syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novack, suggested that if the election is close, we’ll have more what happened in Florida in 2000, the law suits will happen across the country.
The Meta-Mastah Narrative
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 10/20/2004 - 11:04(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
Roger Hurwitz has provided some wonderful comments to Jock’s insightful commentary on the master narrative. He refers to Lyotard claiming that there are no longer master narratives. He questions if there is a Master, or ‘Mastah’ narrative, is there a slave narrative? He suggests that topology is the topic and suggests that we need to think about the role of self-organization.
Yet perhaps that gets to the crux of what Jock is saying. The master narrative, or perhaps meta-mastah narrative is about how changes in technology are affecting the dynamic between top down organization and bottom up organization. We saw this as a major dynamic in the Democratic presidential primaries. The Kerry campaign and the Bush campaign are both tilted more towards top down organization which is why the dynamic hasn’t been as apparent in the presidential election, but it is still there.
