thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | April 17, 2011
Just saw the film and here are my impressions in no particular order: Given the subject matter, I doubt there will be a single objective review of this film (pun sort of intended) since just about everyone will review the politics and not the movie. I think they tried to squeeze too much of the [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 26, 2011
The more I think of it, the more I think that the premise of that post is based on the way we’ve stupidly defined politics in the US. We have just the two buckets labeled “left” and “right” and every single political term or concept goes in one bucket or the other and thus essentially [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 25, 2011
That’s the question asked here. In the last few years, I’ve noticed more and more that science fiction has taken a bit of a turn to the right. I’ve also seen more than a few reviews lambasting those authors for their views — which seems to matter not a whit to their sales. So I [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 3, 2011
Progressives really get steamed when people point to the Tea Party and/or Libertarians as the spiritual successors to the last great anti-establishment mass movements of the 60s and 70s. To them I provide the following interview with Starchild, a San Francisco erotic services provider and Libertarian candidate for school board (h/t): I might also note [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 31, 2010
This video of Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has been making the rounds. Apparently, the Constitution is a little too hard for him to understand because it’s so (gasp) old. Ok, I know that’s not exactly what he was trying to say. Mr. Wonk here was just arguing that the founding document of this country [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 30, 2010
One thing that eludes Statists of all stripes is the fact that the more discretion the State has to act, the more prone it is to manifest the baser aspects of human nature. When the State is free to act as it will, it becomes as petty, vindictive, stupid and arbitrary as its constituent bureaucrats. [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 21, 2010
Talking about this. Most of the supporters of the move may be correct in the effect of the proposed rules. In fact the problem with the FCC has very little to do with exactly what they are attempting to do, even though it is a solution still in search of a problem. The problem is [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 9, 2010
At least no one I’ve seen. But the U.S. Government should be damn thankful this happened the way that it did. We dodged a major bullet that could have been way, way, more damaging than this debacle has been. How could this have possibly been worse, you ask? Simple. What if Private Bradley Manning had [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 7, 2010
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us being so politically opposed to [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 2, 2010
It doesn’t do a lot else though. Over time the revenue increase on hiking taxes is pretty much a wash with the downward pressure on revenue caused by the drag taxation causes on the economy. Here is a demonstration in handy chart form: The last two decades are particularly notable, the evil Bush tax cuts [...]
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