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About Me

Writer, musician, political consultant. I was once a soldier.I'm a singer/songwriter , though over the years I've enjoyed covering a lot of other writers' songs, too. Good songs deserve to be sung.I used to write a bi-weekly column for FlagLive called The Political and the Personal. Here are a few samples:
The Life of a Fallen Warrior
Another shot at the dream
Rope-a-dope at the Legislature
Who counts the votes?
How high's the water, Mama?
There's no tellin' where the money went
The Piper at the Gates of Christmas Eve
Dont PHX-40 FLG
Happy Birthday, Laura
Leaving Flagstaff
Have a Drink for the Kids
Digging for a Pony in Iraq
When Justice is a Game
Support the Troops
Six Million More People
Making Politics Pay
The Death of Health Insurance
What are you doing out there?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I imagine her to be a combination of Bonnie Raitt, Meryl Streep, Brandi Chastain, Lynn Hill, Elizabeth Peña, and Emily Saliers.

My Blog

Election Night, Part I -- Satisfaction

Any addict in recovery, doesn't matter if it's booze, crack, or slot machines, will tell you the same thing:  "One is too many and a thousand is never enough." The same is true for that brand of ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Waiting for the Tsunami

It's almost 2 pm in the Mountain West. In a few hours the polls will start to close on the East Coast  hopefully not before everyone in line gets to vote. I voted early; marked my ballot at home and ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Election Prediction

First a disclaimer.  While I have a pretty good record at calling the results of local elections, I was way wrong in my predictions of the 2004 Presidential election.  Maybe I'm older and wi...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:24:00 GMT

Ground Game

There is a beauty to it -- an almost perfect symmetry. At the Republican convention, Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama's background as a community organizer. Meanwhile, Obama was organzing, continuing t...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:50:00 GMT

Leave Everything on the Road

Markos at Daily Kos has used the classic cycling expression, "Leave everything on the road," more than a few times in the last couple of weeks. It means simply, as you're getting near the end of ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:47:00 GMT

Wassup 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE About damn time. Remember to vote!
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:00 GMT

The Financial Crisis

Since our falling economic fortunes have been front page news for the past few weeks, let the record show that I wrote about this in Flag Live 10 months ago: The news is not good. There's this little ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Where the Election Will Be Decided

Ignore the national polls.  It doesn't matter how much of a lead Obama has on McCain. Remember, presidential elections are decided by the votes in the electoral college, not the popular vote. The...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:57:00 GMT

The Palin Problem

Well, Anne (and others) are right.  I should be blogging.  Been having a little trouble getting MySpace to work on the old computer at "la casa pasada," but it looks like this will work. My ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:38:00 GMT

McCain: Getting To Know You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVc9djQUFk Two things stand out in this remarkable video. First, McCain twisting his wedding ring while he stares at Palin's ass (with Cindy neatly positione...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:08:00 GMT