This Is Not a Political Blog

Nov 8th, 2011

All Politics Is Personal

It is not my intention for this to become Yet Another Political Blog. If anything, I’m trying to use this space to get a grasp on how I feel about a number of issues. Politics is just one of these subjects. It is easy to claim membership to a particular party or adopt an entire ideology. It is much harder to form a consistent set of political beliefs on your own. I believe this search for consistency has caused my views to change over time and question how well my elected representatives actually represent me.

Occupy This: Sacrificing Ethics on the Altar of Politics

Oct 28th, 2011

Occupy This

This post started out as I was struggling to put together my thoughts on the Occupy movement. I was struck by how quickly the same politicians who were so supportive of protest movements overseas would malign the same sort of movements directed at themselves. Instead of a real debate about why people here at home were so upset, we had an instant negative reaction. How dare these young people protest in our backyard. Don’t they have anything better to do?