Category Archive for ‘Politics’ at Dave in LA

I was at Good on Sunset last night eating dinner with BOFA and Cheyenne and in the background ESPN was reporting on the Congressional hearings regarding steroids in baseball. Congress has many different functions, I’m sure I don’t understand all of them, but why is one of them investigations sports scandals? A blog I read, Free Money Finance, identified the current round of sports scandals being investigated by Congress and it’s a bit ridiculous that taxpayers are financing these inquiries. They include the NFL for videotaping, MLB for steroids and the NBA for gambling.

I think Congress should get on with more important things and leave professional sports to figure out their problems on their own. Also, the NHL deserves a pat on the back for being congressional-inquiry-less. Well done NHL, stay classy.

I have a coworker who is obsessed with Ron Paul. He insists on sending out multiple emails per week about him and trying to get the word out about his favorite candidate. I have no problem with him being active and trying to get new people interested in Ron Paul, in fact I find some of the information he sends out quite informative and I think Ron Paul has some progressive and fresh viewpoints compared to all of the other GOP candidates. Some people that I work with don’t appreciate his consistent urging, but its no bother to me.

I was browsing an article today on Lifehacker touting the coolness of some of the lesser known Google web applications. One of them is Google Trends, which will give you a nice little graphic comparing the search volume and news references of a website over time. It attempts to give you what I would call a “Web Popularity” ranking I guess. Not really sure how accurate it is, or what it really means, but the results were exactly in line with what my coworker has been preaching: Ron Paul is popular, especially online, yet he isn’t getting any media coverage.

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