Confession Of A So-Called Deadbeat

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Thursday March 29, 2012 · 10:20 AM PDT

2012/03/29 · 10:20

As some would have it, I'm a deadbeat. For those who think so, my plight inspires no sympathy. Follow me below the fold, as I confess just how terrible I am.

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Am I A Deadbeat

40 votes Vote Now!

Am I A Deadbeat

Yes, for taking on so much debt

6 votes

Yes, for expecting help

6 votes

Yes, for becoming a lawyer

2 votes

Yes, for idolizing Lionel Hutz

6 votes

Nope

20 votes

Radical Ideas: Thinking Outside the Tax Box

xDreux

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Monday January 30, 2012 · 11:30 AM PST

2012/01/30 · 11:30

Its Monday. That means I've got several hours of down time in between classes. Sure, I COULD spend that time doing useful things- but, I'd rather this.

I enjoy thinking about policy problems, and trying to find novel ways to approach them. One of my biggest criticisms of Washington is that policy makers seems unwilling to consider new ideas. Given my political leanings, I tend to lay the blame for this problem at the feet of the GOP. Indeed, since President Obama took office 3 years ago, Republicans have seemingly done nothing, except to dig in their heels. However, Democrats are not immune on this issue either. Over time political positions harden into ideological orthodoxy, choking off debate. What follows in this (and hopefully, subsequent) diary will be discussion of novel approaches to policy.

Follow me below the fold, if you consider yourself a policy wonk.

xDreux

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Monday November 15, 2010 · 8:01 PM PST

2010/11/15 · 20:01

The current debate over whether or not to extend the upper-income tax breaks is going nowhere. The two parties are talking themselves in circles. All the while the robber barons laugh, literally, all the way to the bank.

xDreux

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Wednesday October 27, 2010 · 1:50 PM PDT

2010/10/27 · 13:50

I am a total hypocrite. I'll be 26 this winter, and this year I'm voting for the first time. Follow me below the fold, as I sheepishly try and explain myself.

xDreux

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Tuesday October 12, 2010 · 3:15 PM PDT

2010/10/12 · 15:15

This started out as a comment in another diary. It got a little longer than anticipated, and somewhat buried in the comment chain. As I'm interested in generating a slightly different discussion than was going on in that diary, I decided to post it here.

[edit: I should have had this in here from the beginning. Sorry for the lack of context.]

The Supreme Court of the US voted not to hear a case today, in which the plaintiffs were prevented from entering a public political event by volunteers for having a "no more blood for oil" bumper sticker on the car they showed up in.

SCOTUS denies cert

Ginsburg's dissent.

xDreux

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Monday September 27, 2010 · 3:05 PM PDT

2010/09/27 · 15:05

As shown repeatedly throughout history, we frequently end up becoming the thing we hate the most.

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Tuesday August 03, 2010 · 9:56 AM PDT

2010/08/03 · 09:56

As a law student with a now defunct unpaid internship, about the only thing I currently have in abundance is time. It's a veritable embarrassment of riches, chronologically speaking. Thus, I've had some time to muse over several things- Some of these ideas are more well formed than others, but I think they bear discussing, in any case. Follow me, below...

xDreux

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 2:10 PM PDT

2010/04/13 · 14:10

I'm something of a lurker here. I like to read the diaries, rarely post a comment, and generally keep to myself. I've written a diary or two, when the mood strikes me. Now is just such a time. This may be a rant, or not even worth pointing out, but it's been bugging me the last couple weeks. Read on, if inclined...

xDreux

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 12:51 PM PDT

2008/10/04 · 12:51

There seems to be a misconception about the east coast...

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Go Sox?

23 votes Vote Now!

Go Sox?

Go Sox!

11 votes

Fuck the Sox!

12 votes

Legalize it, and end the economic crisis

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 6:36 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 18:36

Ok, so here goes. My first diary attempt, which hopefully doesn't fail.

Prohibition of alcohol in the early 20th century was an abysmal failure- the record on that is pretty clear (although, boot-legging led, eventually, to John Kennedy, but I digress). Despite this, the United States continues to outlaw marijuana, and enforces stiff penalties on offenders. Why? By rethinking this stance, could we stave off economic ruin?

Join me below the break, and let's pass some ideas around (to the left, of course)

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How far should we go?

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How far should we go?

Kill those damned hippies and burn their lousy hemp fields

2 votes

Leave the hippies alone; still burn the hemp fields

1 vote

Leave the hemp fields alone; burn the hippies

2 votes

Keep it totally illegal, but forget about hurting the nice hippies

1 vote

Stop punishing those hippies so badly, but leave the laws in place

1 vote

Decriminalize it

7 votes

Fully legalize and regulate it

63 votes

Leave the hippies alone; forget burning the fields...just burn the hemp...in small quantities

11 votes

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Confession Of A So-Called Deadbeat

Radical Ideas: Thinking Outside the Tax Box

We've Been Had!

I'm voting for the first time

SCOTUS: thoughts on Ginsburg's dissent.

The GOP: Tragic.

Some musings, on the Right...

Glenn Beck: The Irony

Conservative Disconnect

Legalize it, and end the economic crisis