Chan Lowe

Chan Lowe: Gov. Rick Scott's voter purge

by Chan Lowe — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:57:00 EDT

It’s disappointing that, in reaction to this latest abuse of power by Gov. Rick Scott, the only politicians protesting the voter purge are Democrats. When you seek to disenfranchise Americans (as Republican-dominated state legislatures have been doing across the country with their anti-voter fraud laws), it is an affront to everyone.

Chan Lowe: Mitt Romney, official Republican candidate

by Chan Lowe — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:55:00 EDT

Mitt Romney has one huge ace in the hole. Clearly, the reason for his recent surge in the popularity polls isn’t due to an overnight personality transplant.

Chan Lowe: English-only police strike again

by Chan Lowe — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:23:00 EDT

The idea of a Latin-themed pizza chain offering a good-natured promotion wouldn’t even be a news story, except that some knee-jerk English-only purists have decided to make an issue out of it.

Chan Lowe: The Facebook IPO (II)

by Chan Lowe — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:26:00 EDT

Today’s highfalutin’ foreign vocabulary terms are caveat emptor and schadenfreude .

Chan Lowe: Rev. Wright and Bain Capital

by Chan Lowe — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:12:00 EDT

They said it would be nasty. This is sandbox stuff compared with what’s probably coming. I’m not sure what the Rev. Wright has to do with our assessment of how qualified Barack Obama is to run the country…after all, we’ve had the opportunity to view that firsthand for three and a half years.

Chan Lowe: Ending the war in Afghanistan

by Chan Lowe — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:52:00 EDT

In 1914, young German men, brought up in the martial legacy of Bismarck’s Prussia, boarded trains for the front in a festival atmosphere as young women showered them with flowers and kisses. There lay the promise of glory and adventure—not to mention enrichment for one’s fatherland—in the marvelous sport of war.

Chan Lowe: FCAT writing scores

by Chan Lowe — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:28:00 EDT

I have a friend who peppers her emails to me with emoticons. For those who are even more hopelessly at sea in the information age than I am, emoticons are those cute little ideograms composed of punctuation marks and letters that make a face when turned sideways (like “:-P, ” which means “Yuk,” or “I’m sticking my tongue out”).

Chan Lowe: The Facebook IPO

by Chan Lowe — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:00 EDT

This morning, Mark Zuckerberg woke up knowing that by the time he went to bed, he’d be $20 billion richer. More power to him. I wonder how that translates into 19 th century dollars—and how it compares to the fortunes amassed by Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller, to pull three names out of a hat.

Chan Lowe: The truth behind the campaigns

by Chan Lowe — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:33:00 EDT

The job of a campaign is to market the candidate in such a way that he gets elected. This may or may not have anything to do with presenting real answers for solving the country’s problems. Usually, it doesn’t.

Chan Lowe: Obama supports gay marriage

by Chan Lowe — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:56:00 EDT

There was a whiff of desperation about it, but Obama finally came out and did the right thing. He had been hoping to finesse and waffle until the Supreme Court decision made gay marriage moot, but Joe the Mouth went off the reservation, and suddenly everybody wanted answers.