Boyd Reed

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• Website: severe-blogorrhea.blogspot.com
• Location Turtle Creek PA
• Party Democratic
• Politics As much as possible.

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• Favorite Blogs Ben Smith - Politico
  DailyKos
  Josh Marshall - TalkingPointsMemo
  Bob Cesca - Huffington Post
  Robert Reich - TalkingPointsMemo
  Volokh Conspiracy
• Favorite Books "The Portable Curmudgeon" -- Jon Winokur
  "Democracy for the Few" -- Michael Parenti
  "Congressional Anecdotes" -- Paul Boller
  "Playing Off The Rail" -- David McCumber
  "Karl Marx Plays Chess" -- GM Andrew Soltis
• Favorite Quotes "Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ insofar as they are not incompatible with a life of sin." -- Ambrose Bierce

  "I understand your play is full of single entendre." -- George S. Kaufman

  "This book should not be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -- Dorothy Parker

Bio

Sports freak, chess geek, political junkie, father, son, brother, husband.

Long version:

Born/raised in East St. Louis, IL. ESL has two political parties: Democratic, and Deceased.

Earned two degrees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To date, I am using neither of them.

Got into IT in college. Left the employ of dear old alma mater to go out on my own. Business was booming until 9/11, when it fell off like Mike Tyson after Buster Douglas.

Moved to Pittsburgh less than a year later. Got married. Inherited three kids; collaborated on a fourth. To date, none of them think these were positive developments.

Now working in IT for a Fortune 500 company. Still talking about politics as much as possible, but I like TPM's environment best.