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Religious Views: Christian

I think Facebook is a great way to learn about people you’ve just met or maybe you only know in contexts that make it difficult to get to know other parts of their lives. As I’m sure most of you know, some of the profile fields include “Relationship Status”, “Political Views”, “Favorite Books”, “Favorite Music”… [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † Peter § Faith ‡ Comments (0) °

The consequences of switching from Time Warner to Verizon

I’ve been fed up with my Time Warner cable internet service lately. During the past three weeks, my internet connectivity has been extremely flaky. It would go down about every other day and I also experienced random slowdowns where my bandwidth would come down to less than 1 mbps (I’m supposed to be getting 10 [...]

Posted 21 January 2009 † Peter § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Super Tuesday

My polling place is a Boys and Girls Club on 21st Street and 30th Road in Astoria. I last went there a few months ago on election day. Those elections weren’t that interesting—the only offices up for election were state judicial positions. Even though very few people were interested in voting for state judges, I [...]

Posted 06 February 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

Why not Huckabee?

I am writing this because I promised someone a post on why I think Mike Huckabee would be the worst Republican presidential candidate in a long time. He’s my least favorite Republican candidate for 2008, except for maybe Ron Paul, who I think might be even worse.
There’s one word that summarizes why I think [...]

Posted 06 January 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (2) °

The hoax of the increasing gap between the rich and poor

Best column I’ve read in a while (it’s from the Economist, obviously). Does a good job of explaining why the increasing income disparity between the rich and the poor does not mean the rich are that much better off than the poor.
The new (improved) Gilded Age
Here are some snippets but please go read the entire [...]

Posted 03 January 2008 † Peter § Business/Economics ‡ Comments (0) °