Jake Savin

“Have no fear of perfection: you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí


Politics

  • Let’s hope we’re not in for another one of these…

    Apparently in the 2000 presidential election, if exactly the right 269 people had voted the other way, we wouldn’t have had to endure the last eight years of Bush. Check it out. Continue reading

  • The Times They Are A-Changin’

    Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. Please Vote! Continue reading

  • Veep Debate

    I for one can’t wait for the Vice Presidential Debate tomorrow. Not because I have any question of which I prefer, but really just for the humor factor. The more I see of Palin, the better I think her choice was. Maybe McCain was really after this all along: A Dem win, with a large… Continue reading

  • A One-Sentence Reaction To The Latest From Palin

    I just got done watching the latest segment of Katie Couric’s “exclusive interview with Sarah Palin”, and I have only one thought today: A clear speaker is a clear thinker. Sarah Palin is not a clear speaker. The VP debate on Thursday will either be hilarious, or impossible to watch. Probably it’ll be both. Continue reading

  • A Couple Of Funny Letterman Videos

    So John McCain decided not only to cancel suspend his campaign to jet back to Washington and help his banker friends steal $700,000,000,000.00, but he canceled Letterman too. Whoops. Maybe not such a great idea:  Where’s John McCain? Top Ten Questions People Are Asking The John McCain Campaign… The impending repeat of the Great Depression… Continue reading

  • Is McCain getting ready to tell us the dog ate his homework?

    So here we are in the midst of arguably the biggest financial and economic crisis in a lifetime, and just when most people would probably argue that we need more public discussion and debate, McCain wants to postpone the presidential debate, so he can focus on the economy, or so he says. In the meantime,… Continue reading

  • The Fifth Estate?

    I was just having a quick scan through my RSS feeds, and ran across this post on the blog for Bill Moyers Journal, under which is one of the best written comments I’ve seen, in support of bloging’s positive influence on the mainstream media. daldude writes: “Based on what I’ve read in these comments and elsewhere,… Continue reading

  • AP: Bush Aims to Balance Budget by 2012

    Can you believe this guy?! Continue reading