For the second time, I helped Tucson Weekly recruit dark-horse presidential candidates to run in the Arizona primary election, since it’s amazingly easy to get your name on the ballot. The candidates compete forTW‘s endorsement in a “reality journalism” experiment that we call Project White House. This weekend, I actually hosted two live debates on Access Tucson. [...]
Last summer, I presented a 5-minute lecture on my experiences riding along on the Dustball 1500 at Ignite NM. The presentation, which covers both the 1,500-mile gimmick rally and how we were able to use social media technology even in the expanse of the American Southwest, is now online: Ignite NM 2 – Dave Maass [...]
OK, sure, I admit it. When I run out of words, I just start plagiarizing The Who. So what? Why are you complaining? At least I’m blogging at Maassive.com again, right? Shut it. Anyway, so I’ve been going threw a bit of slothful phase for the last month or so, which is why I haven’t [...]
Leading up to Super Duper Tuesday, I endorsed Barack Obama in every state but Arizona, where I put my support behind Democrat Libby “Doctress Neutopia” Hubbard, one of the top Project White House contestants. It seems my word does count for something; she picked up 209 votes statewide. Of course, that was about 229,300 less [...]
One of the Project White House candidates, Richard Grayson, turned me onto yet another going-on-the-wall quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. It’s from his essay on Heroism, which you can read online [...]
Yesterday, the progressive blogger Mbrian wrote a crybaby post on Blog for Arizona complaining that Project White House’s 20 odd dark-horse candidates on the Arizona ballot created an undue burden on election volunteer workers in Pima county. He writes, assuming he’s a he: “The result was an appreciable amount of volunteer time burned needlessly by [...]
OK, so no vote is ever truly wasted as long as its counted. Even if your candidate loses by a huge margin (and in this case we’re talking more by than 213,000 to John McCain), the voter has made a clear statement by checking that name on the ballot. I recently learned of the human-rights-oriented [...]
Statement from Dave Maass: I see the cynics beginning to believe. I see a whole new generation awakening and preparing to rise up and lead. I see, in Barack Obama, a candidate who can tear down the walls between us. And yes, that is a Reagan allusion. Obama inspires me to forgive, to reconcile, to [...]
The Project White House debate is on, streaming live right now (Click here if you’ve got RealPlayer). They’re discussing, I shit you not, whether we should use obese people as a power source to solve the energy crisis! Update 8:32 pm: Now they’re discussing whether robots will put illegal immigrants out of work! Update 8:48 [...]
Rhett Smith, my Project White House candidate, Rhett Smith, is falling behind in the the polls! These are elimination polls, so please, please, please vote for Rhett below! Opinion Polls & Market Research
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