Author: Jesse

Why the Website Was Gone All Day Long 4

Why the Website Was Gone All Day Long

The short version is that the hosting company had a problem that caused the webserver part to barf. If you want to read the long version, click through to the rest of the story.

Where I Stand 2008: Salt Lake County Ballot Questions 7

Where I Stand 2008: Salt Lake County Ballot Questions

This is a continuing series of candidate and issue endorsements for the 2008 election cycle. It seems that not an election can go by without a new bond issue on our ballot. I personally object to bonds unless we are...

Where I Stand 2008: Salt Lake County Offices 0

Where I Stand 2008: Salt Lake County Offices

This is a continuing series of candidate and issue endorsements for the 2008 election cycle. Salt Lake County Mayor This is the only three-way race in the county offices on my ballot with incumbent Peter Corroon (D) facing off against...

Where I Stand 2008: Federal Offices 3

Where I Stand 2008: Federal Offices

In the 2006 election cycle, I ran a series of posts detailing which candidates I thought would be best for public office at the federal, state and local levels. I'm doing the same this year based on information available about...

An Open Break-Up Letter to Bloglines 6

An Open Break-Up Letter to Bloglines

Dear Bloglines, I've been using your product ever since I figured out that clicking on the list of blogs from my blogroll or keeping a list of bookmarks would simply be too much. And you know what? It was a...

Congress Tries to Fix the "Crap Sandwich" With a Thick Cut of Pork 1

Congress Tries to Fix the "Crap Sandwich" With a Thick Cut of Pork

What do you do if you can't pass a stinker of a bill opposed by the vast majority of Americans? No, you don't try and fix it; you just dress it up with some pork-barrel spending designed to appear to...

Do you have what it takes to balance the federal budget? 4

Do you have what it takes to balance the federal budget?

American Public Media has put together a nifty little game where you can toy with various spending measures and make your own budget. Go check it out. I managed to drop the debt as a percentage of GDP by over...

Seeing Red on the Bailout 3

Seeing Red on the Bailout

There have been precious few times where a political issue has had me absolutely infuriated with white hot rage. Among these are the deployment of troops to Iraq in 2003 and the unnecessary tax increases in Nevada during that same...