I've been a registered Republican since I first registered to vote. Today, I sent in my new voter registration. Once it's processed, I will officially be a Democrat.

I don't like big government... and I used to think the Republicans were the party of small government. Bush has sure proved me wrong on that. To me, fighting optional wars, imposing a right-wing social agenda, and spending money like a drunken sailor COUGHmedicarebillCOUGH doesn't qualify as reducing the size of government. Sure, the Democrats want to raise the marginal tax rates a couple points, but they'll also move us more toward European social policy, and besides, once the economy starts picking up, we need to start paying down our $7 trillion debt anyway.

This is not that I don't agree with some of what the Republicans have to say. Free trade is generally a good thing, and so is business deregulation as long as criminals don't get involved. Does anyone really miss the Civil Aeronautics Board? But wait, which president was it that signed NAFTA?

No, I'm not proud to say I'm from the party of Fritz Hollings, but I think the Demopublicans represent me a little better than the Republicrats. Wait, did I get that right?

Slashdot just went over 7,000,000 comments a few days ago.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79101&cid=7000000

It was modded +1, Flamebait. Seems appropriate, somehow.

Due to the large number of candidates running for Governor of California, many counties may not be able to fit all of the candidates on a single ballot, forcing them to use more than one ballot. Governor Davis believes this is confusing and unfair. Governor Davis proposes the following changes be made to the recall election:

1. No candidates' names will appear on the ballot. All candidates will be write-in candidates.

2. If a voter misspells a candidate's name, his or her vote will not be counted.

It's been said that the difference between a "troll" moderation and a "funny" moderation is whether or not the moderator gets the joke. Or in this case, whether or not the moderator agrees with your political viewpoints.

This one started at 0, got modded down to -1, then back up all the way to 5.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=72484&cid=6538747

Based on the infamous anti drug ads.

Is it okay to support corporate greed if it's only a little bit?

So you buy an RIAA CD occasionally.

It's not like you're paying millions of dollars to finance a music cartel and all the poverty and lawsuits it creates.

And you understand the argument that RIAA money contributes to terrible things.

That if you buy an RIAA CD, your money goes to people who are responsible for bankrupting college students, using their influence in Congress to threaten our civil liberties, clogging the courts with lawsuits and forcing musicians into abusive one-sided contracts. That if you stopped buying RIAA CDs, the dealers would go away, the abuse of monopoly would end.

You get all that.

But it's just one CD, right?

Well, here's a secret: You don't pick which side you're on by how much you buy.

You pick which side you're on by buying in the first place.