A life in words

  • Resolved

    Hello, friends! Hello, blog! Been a while, eh? In the long history of this blog (existing in various forms since January 2004!) there have often been dry spells. Droughts, if you will. But then something drives me back to the blog to at least make an appearance. I sort of feel like it’s time for…

  • A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Senators: Staring Into The Gaping Ideological Chasm That Divides Congress

    In this post, I’m going to introduce you to a cool-looking graph, tell you what it means, and give the technical details of its generation—all because I think America might care. Here we go. Introduction Politics in America are hopelessly partisan, and all of the bickering serves only to cripple our nation at a moment…

  • Wireless Mesh Networking As An Agent of Political Subversion

    Just putting this out there as a ‘ping’ to see if anybody else has thought about this. A recent post at One Free Korea inspired an interesting thought. The general idea is that wireless mesh networking technology being developed and deployed these days seems like an ideal foundation for a dissident network disseminating information in…

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves… to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection [and] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption….George Washington, Farewell Address