On Sunday I blogged about a local Philadelphia fitness club using the (at the time) primary frontrunners in an ad campaign.  That, combined with the great fun I had participating in ChicaX’s Edit This Photo contest (big congrats to Ender for winning with this photo) gave me an idea.  If the primaries are any indication,  Read more »

Ideas Matter! – Volume 5 I decided to take a step back from candidate quotes today to look at the bigger picture.  Most people now recognize that many of our problems in the U.S. stem from over a decade of extreme partisanship in Congress that has its roots in 1994′s so called  "Republican Revolution".  Two  Read more »

Brian and I went downtown today to meet a friend for lunch in Chinatown and because today was the Chinese New Years Parade and the last day of the Philadelphia Auto Show we decided to take the train down rather than drive and deal with parking and traffic.  Lunch was great and on our way  Read more »

There is a lot of federal spending that is either ineffective or so inefficient that the money should stay in the federal coffers.  That does not apply to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  In fact, the first four syllable word I knew as a child was Corporation because of the credit that appeared at the  Read more »

I was going to put together a matrix showing where the remaining candidates stand on various energy policy issues.  In the course of researching it, I found that other people have done this already so I will just link out to these sites. The best I could find is from Grist’s Election ’08 series. They  Read more »