Hugo Chavez is a Machiavellian demagogue. His socialist paternalism keeps his people dependent on a nanny state and scornful of their own entrepreneural potential to enrichen themselves. He is however, deeply adored by those very people, who in 2000 elected him with a 60% electoral majority.
So passionate was their love that it crushed a coup [...]

This post was originally written last year, but in light of Bush’s revived war on gays and lesbians, I figured I would revive my war on stupidity.
It probably drives the religious right crazy to hear that the United States Supreme Court will hear cases about religious propaganda getting displayed on government property. The religious right [...]

When I was 20 years old I played in local-to-Connecticut rock band. After about a year or so the band broke up and over time, we all kind of went our separate ways. Well, one of the members, Matthew Glasser went on to become a music teacher for Northwest Catholic High School. Good for him [...]

Ratings are still in the low/mid thirties for president Bush, which may or may not have anything to do with the fact that Bush is back in bible thumper mode with his revived campaign against gays and lesbians–although, this probably has more to do with mid-term elections than anything else. Either way, he’s beating the [...]

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, and for that I apologize. I’m in the middle of purchasing a house so I’ve been working a lot lately on some web projects to put together a down payment. However, in the last week I’ve gotten some breathing room and during that time I hooked [...]