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steve

I am here for Friends

About Me

a study in contrasts, i suppose - cynical yet optimistic, a pragmatic idealist, a little arrogant but warm and friendly. love to discuss issues, culture, theory, society, politics, and philosophy, but a little distant and introverted of late. a fan of sports AND art, sleep and being awake, activity and sloth. go figure.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Bill Clinton...Barack Obama...John Cusack...Jon Stewart...Daniel Negreanu...hmm, need some ladies...ok, Sarah Silverman...Cameron Diaz...Annie Duke

My Blog

china under the radar

while all of the news networks carry stories every day of the security threat posed by the likes of bin laden and company, the little country of china has been slipping below the radar. for those who ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:55:00 GMT

the "environmental president"

From June 8 front page NewYork Times: A White House official who previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute and led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeated...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:24:00 GMT

the agony of no-limit hold 'em

i spent $10 1 last week in a qualifier for a big no-limit tournament, managed to finish 2nd out of 400 or so players. so saturday night was the big tourney, 250,000 prize pool, 1300 or so players. i w...
Posted by on Mon, 09 May 2005 09:36:00 GMT

it's the economy, stupid....(why i'm hitting the pipe more these days)

it's hilarious to me what's happened to the nature of politics over the past decade i had no interest in it when i was in college life was all about baseball and girls and parties and bong-...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:41:00 GMT

"Will to Power"..or "When I Learned that I was Screwed"

I started Grad school studying Political Philosophy...i soon recognized, of course, that there's not a lot of practical utility to a Ph.D in political philosophy, and my pragmatic nature took over, fo...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:52:00 GMT

Aren't we lucky to live here...

To anyone living in SB, this must sound familiar..."With so much to do in Santa Barbara, aren't we lucky to live here?" Weeee the people...bringing justice to all. what a joke. If i were to put togeth...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:51:00 GMT

You voted for him, not me

The Democrats don't get it. John Kerry couldn't muster enough support to beat an unpopular president, so what do the Dems do? They vote Howard Dean in as the new chairman of the DNC. How exactly does ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:07:00 GMT