Posted By Alan Partis on October 20, 2008
I don’t think you really grasp the concept of political parties and the American election process very well. If you’re not a member of a particular party, why should you be involved in helping to nominate their candidate?
Posted By Alan Partis on October 17, 2008
So the real question is for individual voters to have enough of a clue about themselves to know how to vote.
Posted By Alan Partis on September 9, 2008
We’ve managed to engineer a very self-absorbed, intellectually lazy society that glorifies idiotic sound-byte mentalities and marginalizes intellectuals. That recipe is great for doing mass hypnosis and allowing a few self-appointed ‘leaders’ to march the herd off to slaughter.
Posted By Alan Partis on December 10, 2004
As long as our President is determined through the casting of votes at a State level for Electors, the results of the so-called Popular Vote are not just irrelevant and meaningless, the results are often misleading.
Posted By Alan Partis on December 1, 2004
I didn’t vote for GW because I wanted him to work with Democrats. If I wanted the Democrats to have influence on policy and direction of my society, I would have voted for the Democrat candidate.
Posted By Alan Partis on September 7, 2001
I originally wrote this essay on September 7, 2001. It is written from the perspective of Julius Caesar. —– Most of you know me, Julius Caesar, as a ruler of Ancient Rome (though we didn’t think it was so ancient in my day). And while I suspect most of my readers don’t think a great […]
Posted By Alan Partis on May 20, 2001
Our entire history, the great pyramids, Greek culture, the Roman Coliseum, the printing press, hardly even warrant a credit at the end. Each of our lives, barely 3 seconds as they flash by.
Posted By Alan Partis on December 31, 1995
When I was the ruler of Rome, oh so many centuries ago, life was grand. I got to do whatever I wished and everybody around me heeded my every command without question.
Posted By Alan Partis on April 1, 1995
I just sat through an hour of North American Championship Lumberjacking on ESPN2 with my jaw hanging open and my heart pounding. Never have I witnessed such raw power (pardon the pun) and talent — not to mention the 300cc motorcycle engines attached to chain saws that really DID saw through wood like a “hot knife through butter.”
Just a boy from small-town western New York (Batavia) with strong convictions and a desire to express my opinions. I'm married and have a daughter with whom I am taking great pains to brainwash into my way of thinking (so far with great success).
Though I am a software engineer by day, I read a great deal about current events, history, and economics and philosophy. I'm certain that many of my former teachers will be pleasantly surprised to hear this. I've grown very interested in trying to help educate others about the liberty guaranteed to us in the United States Constitution and the economic theories on which this Country was founded.
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