Here’s why it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm for Rick Santorum. He’d be another George Bush.
From a small-government perspective, we’re doomed to have a dud in the White House regardless of the outcome (barring a brokered convention). So it’s important to try to get as many true classical liberals into the Congress as possible to check the nanny compulsions emanating from the White House.
…and suicide. This isn’t just a problem for the IT industry — we see it in space as well. Of course, as some have theorized, it’s possible that more people are being born this way, since the Silicon Valley culture over the past decades has allowed more of them to socialize together and mate with each other, opportunities that were more rare in a less mobile era that didn’t concentrate geeks to the same degree. We need to help the Asbergers-afflicted more as a society (no, I don’t mean government programs). As the article points out, many believe (including me) that they have advanced us greatly in not just computer technology, but tech in general, but they often pay a price in being social pariahs.
Burns, 23, was one of those young people swept up in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Three years and one college degree later, he cannot imagine a scenario in which he would consider voting for the president’s re-election.
“I guess you could say I have seen the light,” he said.
On Tuesday he will caucus in a precinct right down the road from where he grew up. His vote will go for Mitt Romney.
It’s not just Iowa. And this is the president’s problem. There are a lot of people who feel this way. On the other hand, I think you’d be pretty hard put to find anyone who voted for McCain who’s going to vote for him in November.
…is under new management. They want to reenergize it, and start to push the technologies we need to actually develop space. If you still want to contribute and get the deduction for 2011, you have two more days to do it. It’s a worthier cause than ever.