Unlike 95% of the commentators out there, including the “progressive” radio hosts and cable talking heads, I actually know what I’m talking about. Always check out the credentials of the people you are reading and listening to so you don’t degrade your brain with good sounding but shallow thinking. I have an M.A. in political science from University of Pennsylvania, 7th best university in the U.S. in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, and B.A.’s in political science and communications from Stanford, the #1 university in the U.S. by recent college applicants

I cut my chops writing about politics at the Stanford Daily, the Pennsylvania Voice, the alt weekly Santa Barbara News & Review, Energy User News, Renewable Energy News and Solar Industry Bulletin. Then I taught college political science for fifteen years in the Los Angeles area community colleges. I didn’t have a Ph.D. so I couldn’t teach university. I was pro-staff on a California Assembly primary campaign. I directed a mass-transit voter registration and get-out-the-vote project called Transit Vote run by U.S. Action. I did pro-bono issues research for a year on the Janet Reno for Governor campaign in Florida; don’t hold that against me! Then I was a 53 year-old paid intern for a long summer at the Miami-Dade Country Economic Development Agency. From 2007-2009 I hosted The Mark Weaver Show internet radio program and blog.

I’ve got bloody war stories to tell about almost all of these, like the time I was fired from my … to be continued by popular request