Midterms and High-Tech Cred

Prior to the elections, CNET News.com graded Congress on technology votes covering such topics as the federal Can-Spam Act, taxing online purchases and making the ban on Net-access taxes permanent.
Considering that the election was supposedly about big ticket items like Iraq and Congressional corruption, it seems that arcana like Net neutrality wouldn’t have captured the public interest.
That’s probably true of most of the country, but not necessarily in the geographic regions with a large population of high tech workers.
Here’s a rundown of how the highest and lowest-rated Senators and Representatives who were up for reelection fared.

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Unseemly

It is an ugly and distasteful spectacle, watching Mitt Romney, who was born with so much, build his intended Presidential campaign on the backs of people who face discrimination for handicaps that are not their fault.
That’s beside the fact that Matt’s preoccupation – nay, obsession – with the private sex lives of monogomous, consenting adults makes my skin crawl.

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Doing More (and More, and More)

Doing, i.e., filling every waking minute with a task, chore or activity, isn’t making me particularly happy.
Sure, it’s not a bad thing to respect time as any other non-renewable resource. The problem with doing, though, is that it’s like having: you can accumulate accomplishments in the same way as goods, but at the end of the day, all those goals achieved seem to vanish into thin air.
Why would that be so?

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History Lessons on Veterans Day 2006

For 3 years, 8 months and 7 days, the US fought in World War II: from December 7, 1941, the “Day That Will Live in Infamy” to August 14, 1945, VJ Day.
As of this date, November 11, 2006, the US has been engaged in the Iraq War for 3 years, 7 months and 22 days, the time lapsed since March 19, 2003.
The US was engaged in the Korean “Conflict” for 3 years and 1 month, from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953.
In short, the US has waged war in Iraq longer than in Korea and, as of a little after this upcoming Thanksgiving Day, longer than in World War II.

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