Politics

Always looking for an idea that will generate a much needed income stream , combined with my unabated fascination by technology, and my insatiable curiosity about various problem domains, I decided to look at linguistics as a tool to help generate content.

So I downloaded and installed the nltk package from nltk.org . I did install it on Google AppEngine account together with DJango. I had a few minor technical difficulties to overcome, but it all ended working well.

I decided to test the nltk package with an analysis of the State of the Union addresses over the years. I wanted to explore what were the dominant words used by the various presidents during their various addresses. The objective was to do a word frequency count and to compare the top words use in each address.

Why does most, if not all, of the media mentions Obama's "war" on Fox. Surely, it is Fox News, this comedy channel, taking itself so seriously, without humor I might add, by calling itself a "news" channel, that started any "war". Surely, it is the totally biased and somewhat moronic coverage of the current US administration by Fox News that started it all. I mean, Obama didn't point at Fox for its fair coverage. So. lets start by calling it then, in the interest of truth: Fox News war on Obama!

Why do so many, if not all politicians have this most annoying habit of not answering maybe what are difficult questions but nevertheless pertinent or important. They do so by giving an answer that puts forward one their own positions but does not answer the questions asked. Yet, those very same politicians are the one that cannot heap enough praise on democracy and on transparency of government.