Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 – 09:47:46 AM
Honestly, I shouldn’t even be wasting electrons on Jim Gilmore. We have dozens of mildly competitive races across the country where a candidate does not have a 21 to 1 cash-on-hand advantage. That is, for every dollar Jim Gilmore is clutching, Mark Warner has $21.06. The ratio of Gilmore Dollars to Warner Dollars is roughly [...]
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 – 03:14:38 PM
Everyone hates drunk drivers, we know that. However, I couldn’t help but to chuckle at this item in the Fairfax Times.
During the late evening of April 12 and early morning of April 13, officers from the West Springfield District Station conducted a sobriety checkpoint, issuing four traffic summonses for the 893 drivers pulled over.
Which is [...]
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 – 10:01:13 AM
Yesterday was the annual Shad Planking in the Southside town of Wakefield. Virginia’s biggest political tradition brings statewide Democrats and Republicans together to eat, drink, and be merry. The tradition revolves around shad, a fish that is eaten by most in the crowd once a year, nailed to boards and smoked for hours. I had [...]
Monday, April 14th, 2008 – 08:29:36 PM
I declare this year’s electoral map thoroughly scrambled.
In a generic party matchup, Democrat versus Republican, we would see the same fight from the last two cycles repeated–pitched battles over small groups of voters in a handful of states. This year, however, both parties have managed to nominate map-scramblers (okay, I know it’s not over yet, [...]
Friday, April 11th, 2008 – 10:29:16 AM
Posting’s been light recently (I do occasionally tend to schoolwork), but if you’re not doing anything tomorrow, I will be presenting at the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council conference at Hampton University tomorrow, Saturday the 12th at 1:30 PM (in the Student Center Meeting Room). I will be giving a 20-minute presentation on the continuing NoVA/RoVA [...]
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 – 03:47:45 PM
Is anyone really baffled as to why young voters don’t turn out? Might be because other voters told them not to. Jim Joseph, chairman of the Williamsburg “Neighborhood Council”, eviscerated the newly-minted voters at William and Mary for having the temerity to field one candidate for the May 6 City Council elections because they were [...]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 – 08:40:02 PM
Florida teenagers (that is, Florida, the state that just recently put evolution in its curriculum…as a theory) are under the impression that pregnancy is prevented through drinking bleach and Mountain Dew. They have a point, though–drink enough bleach, and your uterus becomes completely inoperable (as does the rest of your body).
I’ve said it before…pro-ignorance breeds [...]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 – 05:27:30 PM
Its April 2nd, and the news that Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R) announced for Attorney General in 2009 is now confirmed to not actually be an April Fool’s hoax (though many wish it was). Cuccinelli, the presumptive nominee as we here at 750 Volts said back in the winter, is expected to tout his rock-solid–and I [...]
