Steve Ersinghaus

I’ve signed the Amman Message.

Prior to the second debate between President-elect Barack Obama and John McCain, I sent a tweet to Obama saying “go get him. Don’t stand for cheap shots.”
Now, I’m ashamed of that message. Coolness, measuredness, and calm, intellectual determination was the better way. These past eight years have whittled at my [...]

When Obama talks about rebuilding infrastructure, I get giddy.
I hope this will be serious business and that others agree.

I keep hearing that the surge is working. It’s hard, but I have a trillion dollar argument against this. The battle is also economic, blasted to start against the Twin Towers.
Everything is linked.

It was close, but I’m proud of this ruling for CT.
With the ruling, Connecticut joins Massachusetts and California as the only states that allow same-sex couples to marry. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey have civil unions, while Maine, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have domestic partnership laws that allow same-sex couples to receive some [...]

A clever post from Geoff Manaugh at Worldchanging:
In a related vein, it’s often said in the U.S. that certain politicians simply “don’t understand the West”: they’re so caught up in their big city, coastal ways that they just don’t get – they can’t even comprehend – how a rancher might react to something like increased [...]

As I write this big budget cuts are coming and will hit Connecticut Higher Ed pretty hard and, of course, everyone else. Indeed, slender funds will hurt much of my plans for the coming years on the subject of hyperdrama and hypertext literature.
It’s been bugging me that nationally the country has yet to be [...]

When Obama gets into office I hope he scraps this kind of crazy idea. The Feds can confiscate “information”? While interesting, I find the basis for the reversal opinion garbled behind weird and complex analogies.
The basic question holds: what constitutes reasonable search at the airport?

My heart goes out to David Roy and everyone touched by the loss. Again, we knew Alyssa Roy as a wonderful person even in our limited experience with her two summer’s back.
I think about this when ever my 17 year old, my wife, and I head out.
Here’s to the art of life.

In semantic and social web news, information control–how to get all those feeds into an “online” service and to manage even more, typically via the metaphor of the bookmark–continues as the rush. Twine may be the answer to all these troubles. Or maybe not.
On the platform of the web, it seems to me [...]

Lots of writing on the subject of William F. Buckley Jr. As you’d expect.
My first encounter came with Firing Line with Buckley and then Kinsley as moderator later.
Then we went to Crossfire and then to Asshead and Shitmouth. Talk show evolution.

Thanks, Melanie, for the link reference to this post.
What a writer and teacher.

Tonight, Bill Moyers is redoing the journal on the press’ role in the lead-up to the invasion. Ink quantity, pressure, passivity, information suppression. It’s very frustrating to hear the excuses. The doubters were placed on the back page. Those who had all he opportunity could have made the calls.
I feel now as I did then: [...]

Spazeboy comments on a proposal by Rep Tim O’Brien that would hope to keep graduates in the state by offering them “savings” incentive:
While I think this plan will do a lot to keep young college graduates in the state, I also think it will make it easier for more adults to go back to college. [...]

One headline in the paper this morning read:
Pentagon: Spy Satellite Hit

Defense Officials Say Missile Fired From Navy Ship Probably Destroyed Toxic Fuel Tank
This is an Onion headline, right?