Category Archives: politics

Word of the week (Jan 18, 2009) & Bush’s farewell speech

19 Jan 2009 – 15:59

This was the last week of President Bush’s 8-year term in office. He gave a farewell speech and people have been preparing for the huge inauguration in Washington (tomorrow, at this point). The East Coast was particularly cold—I learned this from my mom, and also from coverage of the US Airways plane that crashed into [...]

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Farewell W, Aloha Obama!

19 Jan 2009 – 2:14

Chris, Michael, and I are pleased to announce the launch of a new site today: PublicSentiment.net! PublicSentiment.net is part of a larger effort to capture public sentiment on the web, but specifically to reveal the spectrum of people’s unedited, raw opinions about certain current affairs. We picked up on this idea during the election when [...]

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Word of the Week (Nov 9, 2008)

9 Nov 2008 – 18:09

This week was momentous! Barack Obama was elected the next president of the United States!! And this sentiment is reflected in this week’s words (for the week ending on November 9, 2008). CHANGE. OBAMA. adjudication advantageous arcadian asleep aspect assiduous astounded bankruptcy barack biracial boring busily capricious change contented conundrum copacetic corupt despair discombobulate dismal [...]

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Vote no on Prop 8

14 Oct 2008 – 14:25

I came across a great quote from a friend today. It applies to the general Presidential election, as well as to California’s Proposition 8: I hope we can all agree that we want to live in a country where we are moving toward, not away from, greater acceptance of all differences, whether they be political, [...]

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The Sidewalk to Nowhere

9 Oct 2008 – 20:43

This is unbelievable. I am speechless. Who are these people? I cannot relate to a single one of them! Are these the Christians with upstanding moral values that I’ve heard our great country is based on? Or are they purely and truly ignorant? Or just plain stupid? I haven’t been this worked up in a [...]

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