One Fine Jay

Why we argue

Last night, I observed that we Conservatives tend to squabble amongst each other a lot. Of course, I got the usual Liberals telling me otherwise, refuting their declarations is not the aim today. Let them believe what they want. About half of the people I follow on Twitter are politically active, and only a few… Continue reading this entry

On the matter of Shirley Sherrod, and race

The outcome of every political movement follows one of three archetypes: failure, success through integration into the social fabric, and lastly, an overstay of welcome. Examples of failure and far and wide. I’d rather not list them. Success, such as the suffragette movement, has made our history of not giving women the vote an embarrassing… Continue reading this entry

WordPress and the GPL, yet again

If you’re at all involved in the WordPress community, whether you’re an established or aspiring theme or plugin developer, or contributor, or bug squasher, then you would be aware that there has been a long-standing conflict between WordPress’founder, Matt Mullenweg, and a number of premium theme developers who refuse to abide by extensions of the… Continue reading this entry