Posts Tagged ‘election’

Election Day, Part 2

4th November 2008 by RPorter No Comments

I’m watching the returns tonight with some friends from the local Green Party. Two of our Green county board candidates are friends of mine. It’s an upbeat and energetic night. Some press folks are around, doing interviews and taking pictures. We are wired up good and proper, watching television and listening to radio. Laptops and [...]

Election Day, Part 1

4th November 2008 by RPorter 1 Comment

What are you doing reading the internet? Go vote! Come back later with your “I voted” sticker, and I’ll give you a special treat. Politics

Hooray, telemarketers!

27th October 2008 by RPorter No Comments

I hate telemarketing calls as much as anyone. Telemarketers, though, are usually underpaid workers doing a crappy job because they need to pay the bills. Them I don’t hate.  This story about the Indiana call center workers who went home rather than read a sleazy McCain phone script makes me feel like being a little [...]

Debate Sorcery

7th October 2008 by Robert Porter No Comments

Couldn’t make myself actually watch the debate tonight. Instead, I read a bunch of websites that were doing liveblogging. It’s an odd thing to read the responses without watching the thing itself, but I kind of like it. You get a sense of the bits that provoked strong reactions, things that will be drowned in [...]

Debate Sorcery

7th October 2008 by RPorter 4 Comments

Couldn’t make myself actually watch the debate tonight. Instead, I read a bunch of websites that were doing liveblogging. It’s an odd thing to read the responses without watching the thing itself, but I kind of like it. You get a sense of the bits that provoked strong reactions, things that will be drowned in [...]