I was reading the final issue of The NDPEA Advocate today and I found a supposition in Executive Director Stuart Savelkoul's commentary that humored me enough that I wanted to share it here. For those of you unfamiliar with NDPEA it stands for - North Dakota Public Employees Association. This is the final issue of [...]
Tag: politics
Apparently, I am a Betty…
I was reading an article on Huffington Post and I noticed a personality quiz that asked: Which First Lady Are You? My first inclination was aggravation that it wasn't asking me which President I was. As if my choices or personality could be so easily pigeonholed...pish-posh! Despite my consternation with the inherent limitations in the [...]
Tuesday cannot come soon enough.
Is it just me or has this campaign season been the most unbearable campaign season of all time? I think it has been decidedly more unbearable because of Facebook. Facebook has become a more powerful delivery system of brutal character blows than any attack television ads, because we know the person placing the advertisement. Facebook friends [...]
Here’s a thought – let’s go dollar for dollar.
Every single day for the past couple of weeks I have received numerous big color glossy political advertisements in the mail. Yesterday, I received eight from an assortment of folks promoting both republicans and democrats running in North Dakota-based elections. I estimate that over the past two weeks I have received more than 50 of these [...]
Victimless crime…
I believe that the term "victimless crime" is an oxymoron. I think some folks think if a person isn't hurt it isn't a crime. I say - sure, but victim may not be a person, but that does not mean there is no victim or victims. The victim of the crime could be a creature, the [...]
My bipartisan disappointment…
I think that doing or saying nothing in the face of actions or ideas that you perceive to be inherently wrong or divisive, is - in and of itself - a form of tacit approval. I know I am not alone in this position as many great thinkers have heretofore said the same (and note, I hardly [...]
The North Dakota Way…
I abhor political campaign ads, so I tend to ignore them. However, there is a rare exception that strikes me in a way that I give it some of my attention. Case-in-point, Rick Berg's ad that features four older ladies at a diner lamenting that Heidi Heitkamp can't be trusted because of things she has said and [...]
THE NEW FORTY 