: About Me

I'm a returnig student living in Portland,Oregon. Politically interested if not always active. I enjoy Air America and Keith Olbermann, can you guess my political bent?
I enjoy writing, sometimes, and am in the middle of a couple of writing classes required for my education.

My passion is ...

hoisting Republicans on their own petard.

I know too much about ...

myself.

My parents always told me ...

I had so much "potential".

My childhood ambition ...

is to not live up to my potential.

My favorite memory ...

the first time we went to Disneyland.

Why I write ...

because I must.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

too many trashy detective novels,too much "Law and Order" and KINK.FM

My first job ...

quality is job 1!

My best moment ...

is yet to come.

My inspiration ...

is Jesus. No, the one who cuts my lawn. Jesus Rodriguez.

Politics, News & Issues > News (Other) The importance of seeking a balance in positive news to combat the negative

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Bill Moyers has a special on PBS recently about the sales job the Bush White House did in the run up to invading Iraq. Many theories will be laid out including wanting to suck up to the White House for continued access and lingering patriotism left-over from 9/11/2001. I have an alternate theory to throw into the hopper. I have always wondered why there was not more balance to the coverage. It struck me that the major media outlets were almost universally in favor of the war, yet the polls indicated that there were 35-40% of the voters against the war. Imagine being a news director and see...

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