Skip to content

Tag Archives: politics

The Change

During lunch today, I turned on the television (a pretty rare event around here) - and started flipping through the channels, when I caught a broadcast of “The Tim Russert Show” on MSNBC.
I’ve always been impressed with Russert, and I was pretty impressed by Tim’s guests too. And I was fascinated [...]

Posted 24 February 2008 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

2008 Will Be Great! (for the comedians)

So the Democratic National Committee hired Jenni Engebretsen - RIAA Director of Communications to be their Deputy CEO for Public Affairs - i.e. in charge of PR. (thanks to Boing Boing for the news).
I can’t think of a single better decision - what better way to get out the message for a [...]

Posted 13 April 2007 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

PSA of the day

Today a colleague emailed a campus mailing list and let us know that with the increased activity of the RIAA targeted college students (NC State University is one of the top-ten targets) - they had received 37 “pay us or we’ll sue” letters. My colleague’s note was a good reminder that these things [...]

Posted 07 March 2007 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

The healthcare mess

Unless you’ve been under a rock the last few days, you probably know that the President’s State of the Union address had a proposal dealing with insurance and healthcare - basically trying to use the tax system as an incentive to generate “lower cost” insurance plans. It was on NPR, it’s been the [...]

Posted 25 January 2007 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

QOTD: Have you ever run for office?

Why, yes I have. I ran for student council in 5th grade (I was at a feeder elementary school, and we were running for the office to be held in 6th grade at the middle school). I ran on an empty platform of better cafeteria food, more recess, and less homework. [...]

Posted 08 November 2006 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: