May 18
Read this rather provocative piece in the Huffington Post today. If you don’t feel like reading the entire article, it basically discusses the guilt many have eating at Chick-Fil-A, knowing their politics skew to the Far Right, specifically on social issues. On the one hand, I am a solid supporter of marriage equality, and I admit that …
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Apr 11
“War confounds me!” That simple sentence begins the first piece ever posted to this blog, an essay I wrote in ENGL 3314 a few weeks after 9/11. I posted it here, and other blogs I ran prior to Geoausch, to remind me why I do this. For the first time in my life, I began …
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Apr 09
For the first time in nearly fifteen years, I decided to observe Lent this season by engaging in a fast. I didn’t give up meat, sugar or caffeine, and I didn’t up give up TV, the Internet or anything designed to make me more holy or healthy. Instead, I wanted to see if I could …
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Feb 08
The thought of Rick Santorum as the Republican nominee elicits all sorts of powerful, negative emotions within me. As a social conservative/fiscal liberal, Santorum represents everything wrong with the political Party I love. Even so, I recognize that reckless attacks on Santorum and his supporters will resolve nothing. We share a common goal, to see …
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Feb 05
During the late 90′s, as a college student, I started hanging out with a group of friends actively involved in the local music scene. I remember being at a friend’s house one night with some self-described “punks”. We were waiting for our mutual friend to come home from a show her husband had played at …
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Jan 22
Out of boredom, I began looking through some poll numbers on Gallup’s website, specifically the Presidential approval numbers. The numbers break down by demographics like you might expect–the more progressive a demographic, the higher President Obama’s approval rating. One number that really stood is the “Married/Not Married” numbers. For the week of January 9-15, 2012, …
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Oct 14
It may sound preposterous, but I believe that in spite of their differences, the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd share a common concern–one we all should share. Corporations and the Federal government are guilty of exploiting American citizens and we need a change in both sectors. That doesn’t mean we need the …
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Oct 11
Nearly twenty years after his unfortunate death, Lee Atwater’s legacy remains alive and well in the Republican Party. Throughout his political career, Atwater developed a knack for transforming weaker candidates into contenders, by shifting the debate away from policy and into minutia. His techniques proved effective, but also exposed a man who never wrestled with …
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Oct 09
While I love talking politics, I hate admitting I’m a Republican. I’m not ashamed, mind you, because I grew up in the Party and thoroughly understand the philosophy of the GOP, but I hate having to break the platform down for both those inside and outside the Party, in order to dispel some common myths. …
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