The vast majority of new housing planned for Manatee County, Florida, is far away from employment centers. Developers have bought up huge tracts of land in rural areas and hope to cover them with $300,000 to $600,000, 3000 to 4000 square foot detached houses that have no shopping or gathering places within walking distance. Most [...]

I am against illegal immigration. Our country is more crowded than I believe it should be, and I dislike the idea of a permanent underclass that holds down wages for people who do physical work. But I’ve also been to small towns in Mexico where the average person has no opportunity at all, and the [...]

As a Florida Democrat, my vote in the primary election on January 29, 2008, would not count. This is the official word from the national Democratic Party. All Florida Democrats are effectively disenfranchised in the 2008 Presidential primary, and that’s that. The Republican Party has stripped Florida of half its convention delegates, which apparently means [...]

Let the man speak for himself:

Worse, some of the secular libertarians who support him need to deal with the fact that he’s not big on that silly old church/state separation thing, either — or at least he wasn’t back in 2003 when he wrote a Limbaugh-like screed titled The War on Religion. And a few [...]

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You really want to read the text at Linux.com, too.

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Naturally, you’ll want to go to Linux.com to see the story links Lisa mentions. Besides that, this is a pretty good example of how to make a “talking head” video interesting enough to watch for over four minutes, which isn’t the easiest task in the world.

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Chris’s GOP Debate Song opened the event… Bohrman also discusses selecting questions & disses YouTube video quality a bit.

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In this video she talks about being at the debate and about her aspiration, and breifly interviews Chris Nandor. Elsewhere, Stacie made the best spin room video from the debate. She should have called it, "Where’s Chuck Norris?" but she didn’t. It was still a great premise; she obviously agrees with me that [...]

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I’ve decided that if someone wears more makeup on-camera than to go to the supermarket, he or she is an actor or “TV personality,” not a reporter, and that any show featuring that person is, therefore, entertainment instead of news. I think a lot of people instinctively realize that special TV lighting [...]