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	A musical Flash animation, with Scot Lee on vocals. A version with me on vocals. Additional Lyrics for My Favorite Things YouTube version
	Guns N' Religion: a (satirical) anti-elitist, anti-government song (sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall", lyrics only) YouTube version
	War Business!
	A Political Love Story, a light-hearted musical Flash animation YouTube version
	Brainless: a pro-choice song A musical examination of when life begins. See this essay for more details
	Look Back, Barack! A YouTube plea for accountability, plus a short short: Yes, We Can-Can.
	Action News Special on I-1098, with Tim Eyman
	Christmas Song for Rahm Emanuel
	Market-based competition in medical care
	I-1098 song
	An Examination of Republican Talking Points, YouTube version
	Some Questions about Justice A non-musical Flash animation about the need for accountability.
	Breaking news: Bush declares martial law, suspends the election. pdf file of Republican Legacy
	Destroy Government Game (for conservatives)
	Take your Choice Away (McCain, Rossi, and Reichert dance to the same tune as Bush: "Take Your Breath Away") pdf file of Republican Legacy
	News anchor Susan Hutchison reports on Tim Eyman's ballot initiative I-1033.

Some of my writing

• Guest op-ed in the Bellevue Reporter (Apr 26, 2010): Government is like a computer's operating system: a response to libertarians, longer, recommended version here.
• Guest op-ed in the Bellevue Reporter (Feb 09, 2010): Obama, Democrats playing into Republicans' hands, also here.
• Guest op-ed in the Bellevue Reporter (Sept 15, 2009): Obamacare has serious problems, but John Carlson's view isn't the answer (extended version of op-ed in the print edition), also here.
• Guest op-ed in the Bellevue Reporter (May 19, 2009): Government: Unproductive? Wasteful? Corrupt?
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (December 22, 2008): Bring on the Reagan Counterrevolution (a defense of Big Government against libertarian attacks)
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle Times (September 11, 2008): All the news that gives us fits-- on truth in media (or this local copy)
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle PI (April 21, 2008) on: We need more than religion and guns (click here for some elaboration)
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle Times (November 26, 2007): The Proper Imbalance (on Media Reform)
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle PI (November 4, 2007) on Impeachment (Longer version here)
• Guest op-ed in the Seattle PI (September 26, 2007) on the MoveOn.org ad controversy
   
• The Reagan Revolution Redux (Nov 16, 2010, Seattle P-I Reader Blog)
  
• The straw that breaks, or strengthens, the Donkey's back (also here as a Dec 12, 2010 Seattle-PI blog)
• Democrats and Progressives Need Each Other
• Thoughts on Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars"
• I-1053 is Unconstitutional
• The Market for Progressive Groups and Websites (Feb 12, 2011)
   
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "I-1098 will help balance tax burden" (September 27, 2010)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Vote for our interests -- not yours (August 31, 2010)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle P-I: "Obama versus Bush (April 10, 2010)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle P-I: "I-1033 and Government: Somalia Anyone?" (October 5, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Conservatives need a new slogan" (June 15, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Corruption, not taxation, is the problem" (May 6, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Tax protests mere spectacle" (April 22, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Don't Destroy Government" (March 24, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle PI: "Dems Cede to GOP: Dems acting like DINO" (March 8, 2009)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle PI: "Voters are not given the complete story"    (scroll about 3/5 of the way down or click here)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Bellevue Reporter: "Puget Sound Transportation Plans"
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle PI: "Lower sales tax and let gas tax pay for more"
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle Times: "Put out that Tailpipe" [second one down] (Longer version available here)
• Letter-to-the-editor in the Seattle Times: "Happy Days are Here Again for Republicans" (Gotcha!)
   
• US Congressman Dave Reichert doesn't know what the Glass-Steagall Act is
• On Punishing the Dems
• Blame conservatives and Obama, not all the Dems
• The Battle over I-1098 in Washington State
• President Obama's emergency speech to the American people
• Why Obama can't blame the GOP for his inability to pass progressive legislation (local copy here)
• Undividing the left: Hard-core and Soft-core progressives
• Are the Democrats as bad as the Republicans? Should progressives form their own party?
• Report on the 2010 Washington State Democratic Convention (also here)
• Centrists and Progressives Fight for Control of Washington State Democrats (also here)
• "Public goods, private bads, public bads, private goods: Why we need public financing of investigative journalism" (local version here)
• "They're out to get us!" On trust, distrust, and organizing for change (H1 headlined article)
• Why Abortion isn't Murder
• OpEdNews: Failure to prosecute: why Obama is having trouble passing health care reform
• OpEdNews: Where's the Music?
• OpEdNews: Where are the religious protesters?
• Book review: Mark Buchanan's The Social Atom
• All my OpEdNews articles
• Report on Mercer Island rally for health care reform, Aug 31, 2009
• Report on the Dramatic Eastside Democrats' October 7th, 2007 Dinner in Bellevue
• A Plan to Enhance Progressive Coordination and Media Access
• Report on meeting with Dave Reichert
• Resolution passed by the 41st LD Democrats in support of impeachment.
• Resolution passed by the 41st LD Democrats in support of a strong Homeowners' Bill of Rights (March 19, 2009).
• A brief analysis of the 2010 election and a call to action

Some other useful links

• How common was your first name, historically?
• Do women enjoy sex without orgasm? (Survey on female orgasms)
• Female-Satisfaction.com (About female orgasms)
• Grudges.org (Stories about grudges. Enter your own!)
• A song about Ralph Emanuel
• Conservatives' selective concern about deficit spending
• LetsNotMoveOn.org
• Government is Great! (a website devoted to defending government against libertarian delusions)
• Two images concerning the teaching of ethics
• Republican Legacy
• Four-parts-per-page flier: Republican Legacy (medium)
• Criticize Conservatives (email tool)
• Six-parts-per-page flier: Republican Legacy (small)
• Five-parts-per-page flier: Republican Legacy (small)
• Museum of Accountability
• Out of Iraq Town Hall Event (Bellevue Council Chambers, June 17, 2008, 6:30PM)
  See Photos. (I was one of the organizers.) See Photos from the event.
• Flash movie examining Republican Talking Points
• My Favorite Things (Conservative Version) (a midi song)
• ConservativeThought.org (my parody website)
• Honorable Mention Conservatives
• My Facebook home page
• My Photos and brief report on the 2008 Democratic Caucuses
• I'm the organizer of Eastside Democracy for America (DFA).
• Kitten Photos

Some political images

• Political Signs
• Defenders of Torture, Unite!
• Stamps commemorating the Bush Administration
• Powerful animated political gifs
• Arlington Northwest -- Iraq War Memorial on Mercer Island
• Cost of War rally at US. Rep .Dave Reichert's Mercer Island office
• Congress is the Decider -- at US. Rep .Dave Reichert's Mercer Island office
• MoveOn war vigil, Bellevue
• A new sort of pride

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Quotation from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Quotation from President Abraham Lincoln, from a letter dated Nov 21, 1864

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.

Quotation from Robert Thoms

When conservatives accuse liberals of advocating an unjust wealth redistribution, what they really mean by those words is, "We don't want you to interfere with OUR wealth redistribution program - the one we installed late in Nixon's and Ford's reign, but which we actualized, mainly, during the Reagan years.....the one that has been enriching America's privileged-elites every year since."

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