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she turned me into a newt

November 7, 2008, 9:36AM

I have noticed a strange tendency among some of the democratic party faithful following their recent victory. Their hearts are filled with long-held grievances and lingering suspicions resulting in an inability to move forward as one nation, working with republicans to accomplish our many challenging tasks. Ironically enough, the main theme of Barack's candidacy.

I struggled to put the hysteria into words until I remembered this clip from Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

a perfect margin of victory

November 5, 2008, 8:02AM

It dawned on me this morning that John McCain's campaign and the fervor it inspired was really not much different in tone and tenor than Hillary Clinton's losing bid as she pushed through to Puerto Rico.

I don't blame them for their attempts. That is the type of election they had been raised to run. They are a different generation. I can't blame their supporters either. It is human nature to support your guy or gal to the death. We're Americans after all - damn the torpedoes and all that. Like Senator Clinton, Senator McCain was gracious and magnanimous in defeat, vowing to get behind President Obama to deliver immediate solutions to our many pressing problems.

If that John or Hillary had ran for president, we might be celebrating a very different first today.

we won't get fooled again

November 2, 2008, 12:03PM

With the enthusiasm and attention being paid to this year's election, I find it increasingly odd the way America's new-found interest in such a fundamental feature of our democracy is being characterized by the corporate "news" media. On this morning's Today show, this caricature took on a new face - American voters are "obsessed" with politics to a pathological degree and need help immediately.

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Location Washington DC
Party Republican (Bull Moose 2.0)
Politics Progressive conservative. I believe we need governing policies that are based in common sense and not dogma. An evolution of society and not a revolution that seeks to tear everything down and start from scratch. We don't have enough time for that nonsense.

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Favorite Blogs TPM. Much easier to get everything in one place than visiting a million blogs every day. Who has time for that?
Favorite Books Too many to list. Reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Just finished the Squandering of America by Robert Kuttner. Probably the best explanations of our issues and some possible solutions for them.
Favorite Quotes "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." - Teddy Roosevelt

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I started my professional life as a union carpenter in Reno before joining the United States Navy in 1991 as an assistant ship's journalist and a deck seaman. I covered high-profile events around the globe, from Hurricane Andrew disaster in 1992 to the discovery of USS Yorktown off of Midway Island with Bob Ballard in 1998. My final tour of duty at Combat Camera Group Pacific was as a field producer in support of a worldwide mission of military documentary production.

I left the Navy in 2001 and moved across the country to start my first business with my long-time best friend Mikah Sellers. We started a specialized communications firm in Washington DC called Hancuff Miller. After a short but successful partnership, we both decided to pursue other opportunities following the Dot.com Bomb. I spent the next several years as a freelance multimedia designer, web developer and screenwriter. I also wrote five feature-length scripts during this time, earning a bachelors degree in graphics and multimedia design from Capella University and a Masters in Producing for Film & Video at American University.

In 2006, I gathered together my educational background, technical tools and business acumen to start my second company, Metamorphosis Media, with Marcus Scott. The company completed a number of projects for non-profit clients such as Academy of Hope, Mosaica and the Conservation Fund. It was at Metamorphosis that I discovered the enormous benefit that technology and story-telling could provide to the non-profit, charity and NGO communities. I maintain a relationship with Metamorphosis as a senior consultant with the firm, but no longer support their day-to-day operations.

I live with my wife and two dogs in Washington DC. My extracurricular activities include filmmaking, screenwriting and blogging.

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