Archive for November, 2006

On to 2008!

The first day after the midterm election is ALSO the first day of the next presidential campaign. Welcome to Campaign for 2008! To that end and by request, I have been doing some thinking about who might actually be in the field on either side for the top spot. Here’s the handicapping I’ve come up [...]

Kyoto. K-Y-O-TO Kyoto.

The Kyoto agreement; a way to allow market forces help us clean up the environment by buying and selling credits to cover a country’s ability to pollute.  There’s a certain genius in the concept; it creates revenue centers for things that were previously part of the tragedy of the commons, but there are also pitfalls.  [...]

The tide turns, but it’s still the same ocean.

The map is awash in blue as the House changes hands, governor’s mansions get new residents, and maybe, just maybe, the senate gets a Democratic majority.  The electorate has proved that it’s sufficiently pissed off by the scandals, the war, and government in general to change things around, and they took their enmity with them [...]