Steven the Draconian President
Thesis: If I become the next US President, my detractors might well end up dubbing me Steven the Draconian . They will quickly find that I have no use for the In Crowd, the... More »
Thesis: If I become the next US President, my detractors might well end up dubbing me Steven the Draconian . They will quickly find that I have no use for the In Crowd, the... More »
If Osama bin Laden is captured, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death in a U.S. federal court during my presidency, I will commute his sentence to life imprisonment. None of my rivals in... More »
Today's Thesis My campaign for the U.S. presidency in 2008 will be barely noticeable in the surveys generated by professional polling organizations, until just before the election. I predict that my campaign will hit... More »
I'm talking about Old Glory (aka the Stars and Stripes): She's a Grand Old Flag...but that doesn't have to be for all time. We can claim freedom to reinvent ourselves, at any time. Our... More »
There are very real differences between me and the other candidates (though I won't mention them all) who are running for the U.S. presidency in 2008: John Edwards John Edwards' hair and my hair:... More »
In the Beginning To begin with: Imagine that the universe gradually stops expanding and eventually collapses to what it was before the Big Bang. The universe will, in this imagining, return to its point of... More »
Today, I'm going to take on The Boxer , a song by Simon and Garfunkel which was written back in 1970. By "take on," I mean: after having wrestled with The Boxer , I... More »
"So you want to be president" is the title of an editorial which ran in the April 11 th issue of the Chicago Tribune . This piece chastises Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards... More »
QUOTE: President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination. [and] Bush also used... More »
Millions of Americans share these sentiments concerning the Democratic Party: QUOTE: The central political task of a progressive movement in America is to transform or replace the Democratic Party, both organizationally and in the... More »