http://www.kustace.com flyover state Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:42:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obama's transition website has a job application section. I really, really hope they'll need a young inexperienced almost-architect. http://www.kustace.com/2008/11/07/i-want-to-work-for-obama/ I LOVE MY COUNTRY. For half my life, a Bush has been in the White House. For a third of my life, the second Bush has been driving my country into the ground, and all I did was stand idly and watch. Now, in one fell swoop, Republican tactics of divide and ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/11/05/obama/ These days, I seem to spend more time sending out mass emails than writing in this blog. That's too bad because I like this thing. http://www.kustace.com/2008/10/24/shift/ Surprisingly, given the events of the past week, Palin more or less held her own—she used complete sentences, copious winks, and the word "maverick" to satisfactory effect. Then there's Joe Biden, who owned almost every issue and every rebuttal. Unlike Palin, he always answered the damn question—directly, concisely, with copious evidence ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/10/03/bidenbattle/ Honestly it wasn't a particularly exciting debate—all Obama has to do is hold on to his lead, so he played it calmly and cautiously. I waited patiently for Obama to bust McCain's head into the ground with the steely hammer of reason, but alas that's just not our guy's style. ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/09/26/obamabattle-1/ I'm sure you've all heard of China's, ahem, milk troubles. Basically, turns out some of China's milk suppliers have been watering down their milk and then adding melamine, which tests as protein when the milk's evaluated for sale. (Melamine is normally used to make fertilizer and plastics… both of which ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/09/25/white-rabbit-is-chinas-latest-victim/ Much to my dismay, I've made a hobby of being sickly cynical about capital-"A" Architecture. We are in, perhaps, the latest late period. The question: what now? Architecture clings to relevancy by the very tips of its fingers. (The following was originally an email.) Mornin' folks, three cynical things: Kieran Long skewers the ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/09/23/this-is-not-a-strong-time-for-architecture/ You know, may be this is it. May be this is America's last stand. McCain's beating Obama in the electoral college with nothing more than simple lies and naked deceit. Wall Street has completely imploded—we bailed out AIG for $85 billion; Lehman Brothers has gone bankrupt and Merrill Lynch was ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/09/17/our-fucked-nation/ I don't think it would be too hard: Split the country. Cut funding to education. Republicans depend on an emotional, irrational, uninformed vote. Be perpetually at war. Wars appease the Republican base, and are an excellent source of Veterans, the lifeblood of the Republican Party. An American can do nothing greater in life ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/09/04/how-the-republicans-could-rule-america-forever/ McCain's ads demonstrate that it's really not that hard to convince people of pretty much whatever the hell you want. His basic formula: take a fact, add his campaign message, and repeat it again and again. The truth of the former becomes associated with the subjectivity of the latter. Bingo, people ... http://www.kustace.com/2008/08/15/mccain-dumbfuck-politics/