Senator Jerry Springer?

Jerry Springer has a website up for the purpose of “exploring a Senate run in 2004”. It looks like he is running on one of the most populist platforms ever.

… let me sum up what we face in the following quote from a right wing journalist recently appearing on CNN with Wolf Blitzer:

“Voter turnout is not a glorious thing. If Jerry Springer shows up, he’ll bring all these new people to the polls. They will be slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs, and whatnot.”

That’s what they think about ‘all these new people’ getting involved and threatening the hold of elites on this country. That’s what they think about most of us! That’s why we have this exploratory site.

That’s not what they think about you Jerry. It’s what they think about the folks you’re targetting your campaign at.

It’s the dishonesty that makes false populists like Springer annoy me more
than the elitist politicos he is targetting.

[/politics] posted at 11:04 #

Matrix Reloaded Debrief

Seen the Matrix Reloaded? Make sure you understood it (major spoilers if you haven’t):

• Exhaustive discussion
• Possible hidden meaning extracted by looking at a draft copy of the script
• A draft copy of the script

I’m still not sure I do.

To fully appreciate the visuals read up on why they are truly revolutionary.

[/misc] posted at 00:25 #

An algorithm for soul-searching

Sadly unimplementable.

1. Classify personality traits into nature (evolved) or nurture (learned).
2. For learned traits: identify the lessons and assess the general viability of the learned response.
3. For evolved traits: identify benefits gained from trait and assess relevance to modern world.

[/misc] posted at 00:25 #