politics Archives - Aaron Traffas

The first week and Strawman Biden

Written by Aaron | Posted on 27 January 2021 at 5 p.m.

It’s been a week. President Biden has already fulfilled a lot of promises, but they’re the lowest hanging fruit.

Cultural inequality

Written by Aaron | Posted on 13 January 2020 at 6 a.m.

There’s a Trump 2020 flag near my farm. It went up a couple of weeks ago, somewhere shortly after the president was impeached. I get to see it four times a day when I drive past to and from feeding cattle in the morning and evening. In this part of the country, not-so-lovingly referred to […]

Stronger shade of blue

Written by Aaron | Posted on 17 November 2017 at 9 a.m.

I need a stronger shade of blue This one’s served me well before but now washed-out, weak and sickly it doesn’t suit me anymore I need a stronger shade of blue one reminiscent of our past of the legacy and sacrifice that’s now tarnished and collapsed There are monsters at the door and yet we […]

The Mad King

Written by Aaron | Posted on 28 June 2017 at 11 a.m.

They said that we should be silent They said that it was their turn They said that only they could fix the mess we made We watched the world burn They started to dismantle They were viciously relentless They culled our liberties. Our institutions under siege, We became feckless They closed their eyes as the […]

Scatter and succumb

Written by Aaron | Posted on 1 February 2017 at 6 p.m.

We need to stand together to prevent Americans from suffering as a result of the new administration, but nobody is calling the plays.

Joss Whedon endorses Mitt Romney

Written by Aaron | Posted on 29 October 2012 at 1 p.m.

Joss Whedon is a fantastic director and created the lovable Firefly TV series, among others. It seems he’s come out in support of Willard. It’s definitely worth the 2 minutes. Thanks to both Fro and Naomi for sharing this on the book of faces.

O’Reilly humiliates Palin on FOX

Written by Aaron | Posted on 18 July 2010 at 5 p.m.

I caught this on Digg and didn’t believe the headline until I watched it. I never thought I’d say it, but given the choice I think I’d vote for Bill O’Reilly over Sarah Palin. To think how close she actually got to the executive branch makes me cringe.

Citizen journalism

Written by Aaron | Posted on 19 May 2010 at 9 a.m.

My friend Carl Carter, over at overcoffeemedia.com, wrote yesterday that citizen journalism is a myth. Writing correctly that journalism is hard work, he points out the expense and overhead inherent to the filtering that permeates modern professional journalism. This filtration, he and others reason, is the reason consumers prefer to source their news from professional […]

The case against Fox News is not about censorship

Written by Aaron | Posted on 21 October 2009 at 12 p.m.

Newsweek’s Jacob Weisberg published an article on October 17 entitled The O’Garbage Factor: Fox News isn’t just bad. It’s un-American. In the article, he notes how ridiculously biased Fox News has been historically and how recently they’ve somehow managed to become even more so. Fox News has quit covering news in any journalistic sense of […]