Archive for August 2008
Moronomania
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 31, 2008
In my previous blog post, commenter Steve dove headlong into this topic, and we had a nice exchange. So I’ll elevate some of the ideas from there into this post. It’s about Sarah Palin, the moron.
Some political theorists like to look at American presidential elections 10 at a time (ie. 40 years). See, e.g., Millenial [...]
OMG
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 29, 2008
Cheney may be evil; but at least there’s a certain diabolical intelligence there. Reagan may have had Alzheimer’s his second term. But Poppa Push had a brain. And true, Quayle was an idiot. Still, there was Poppa Bush.
Given all that, if Obama/Biden lose to this pair …
… then the Democratic [...]
Obamabummer
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 21, 2008
I haven’t blogged about Obama since July 7. I suppose I have been avoiding the subject — not wanting to “go there” again. But my business partner just called me and asked: “What’s up with Obama? Why is his campaign sagging?” (Recent media reports say that McCain has overtaken Obama in the polls.)
Well, ask me [...]
The One True Star
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 19, 2008
In the last post, in which I blogged about Olympic medal counts, I wrote:
That is, China celebrates the community, and discourages the individual, whereas the US celebrates the individual, and pretty much forgets about the community.
I concluded: “Canada will always suck at the Olympics. This is the price of a really nice place to grow [...]
Gold Medals: China vs. USA vs. Canada
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 19, 2008
Forgive me if the following analysis is just too obvious to bother blogging about. But in case not, here goes ….
As I write this, China leads the Olympic medal race with 42 golds. The USA is second with 25 golds. Third place starts with Britain (15 golds), and drops pretty quickly from there. Down at [...]
USA Basketball: The Allegory is Looking Up
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 18, 2008
Two years ago, I posted Greece Beats the US: A Perfect Allegory for Duck & Gather. That post mentioned that, in the semi-finals of the 2006 World Basketball Championships, the Greek national team beat the U.S.
I argued that this defeat of the U.S. served as a nice allegory for America’s dark future. Basically, my argument [...]
South Ossetia in Two Pictures
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 15, 2008
After all the words I typed in the last posts, two pictures pretty much explain the core motivations of Russia and the U.S. concerning the South Ossetia story this past week.
The first is a picture of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo:
The second is a picture of countries in which the U.S. had military bases as of [...]
Ossetia: The Story Within the Story
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 11, 2008
At the same time last week that the world was focused on the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, a story of war began emerging out of the country Georgia. Georgia is one among many former Soviet republics that broke away from the USSR when the latter collapsed in 1989.
Check out the Wikipedia page on [...]
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