On I wrote Drinking lunch, on the subject of Politics and Conferences.
Jeremy: thought someone might say something like that. It just seems a bit weird...
Loads of Stuart's friends over here vote Conservative though, that's proably why he's confused ;)
I think the Conservatives there are conservative in the, uh, traditional sense of the word, no? The Conservatives here are not so much...
Hey Stewart. Just saw your post about our lunch. To Jeremy's question, yes, a conservative in England is quite different from a conservative in the US. Further, the conservatives running our government now are dominated by right-wing religious conservatives. I'm not entirely sure they come to conferences like SxSW and most assuredly do not consume as much beer as we did at our lunch.
Stuart, I don't remember, did we ever meet up? I think we met in passing:
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/sxsw/sxsw-bloggerati-swarm-the-yahoo-sellout-party-160746.php
That's not what I meant to post, it was this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliedowne/112323048/
Stuart,
You're at SxSW, a liberal arts conference in a liberal Mecca (Austin). All your online friends are webby or linuxy, a strong filter for eccentricity and therefore liberalism.
Where are all the Repubs? How about 80%-ish in the Dallas area? In my >1000 person company, I'd wager over 90% are Repubs.
Of the 32 reps and 2 senators for Texas, 21 reps and both senators are Repubs. Hutchison, one of the senators, is on her 3rd 6-year term.
Sorry for missing today... I feel terrible-- sore throat, sore body, small fever, generally tired. And I also needed to finish up a project for school due Monday. Hopefully, I'll feel better in the morning...
Eh... I broke my promise to drink more tonight as well. :-/