From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader

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From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 17, 2012 @08:36AM from the interesting-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the midst of Congressional races around the country, one stands out to techies. Thomas Massie, an MIT whiz kid who pioneered touch-based interfaces and founded SensAble Technologies in the 1990s, is the favorite to win the Republican nomination in his Kentucky district next week. SensAble was recently sold on the cheap, but in a new exclusive, Massie explains why he left the haptics firm years ago to lead a simpler life of farming, family, and guns — lots of guns. Along the way he built a solar-powered, off-the-grid house and became a local hero of the Tea Party. Now Massie is leading the charge to get more engineers into politics, and if he wins, he could be a force to be reckoned with in Washington, DC."

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Tea by Sigvatr · 2012-05-17 08:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Now known as 'MITea'.
1. Re:Tea by Chris+Burke · 2012-05-17 11:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  This is exactly why we threw that tea in the harbor!
  
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2. Re:Tea by Herr+Brush · 2012-05-17 15:34 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Selling $30,000 speaker wire is a perfectly rational thing to do.
3. Re:Tea by blue_teeth · 2012-05-17 15:51 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A country full of lawyers - litigation is rampant A country full of doctors - disease is rampant A country full of engineers - solutions are rampant
Can't be bothered to RTFA by GameboyRMH · 2012-05-17 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Gimme the TL;DR version. Motorcycle accident? Brain cancer? Aneurysm?

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1. Re:Can't be bothered to RTFA by TheDawgLives · 2012-05-17 08:57 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Since he's running for congress as a republican, I'm guessing he wants to bang male interns...
  
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2. Re:Can't be bothered to RTFA by uigrad_2000 · 2012-05-17 09:09 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  First off, Barney Frank is a democrat, not a republican.
  Second off, his live-in boyfriend was making an honest living also, by prostituting himself out to others.
  
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Re:WTF by glebovitz · 2012-05-17 08:53 · Score: 4, Funny

perhaps his intelligence is by design.
Re:What? by cpu6502 · 2012-05-17 08:59 · Score: 3, Funny

The level of Hate Speech on this forum makes me wonder if the posters are actually KKK members in disguise.
Democrats would never be so rude and insulting.

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Re:Why is it news by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-17 09:00 · Score: 5, Funny

If you think the right wing is crazy, you should look at the left wing.
Medicare goes broke in 2024. Obama doesn't have a plan to fix it, but he has called other plans to fix it "UnAmerican," "radical," and a "trojan horse."
Which is more crazy? Trying to prevent fiscal crises before they happen? Or calling anyone who offers a solution "UnAmerican?
The debt to GDP ratio is already over 100% if you include publicly held debt. And you should include publicly held debt unless you plan to default on social security. The time to act is now. Or we can wait until we become Greece. Which won't take very long, actually.
Who's crazy again?
You are an excellent example of right-wing crazy. Your second paragraph has three facts, and none of them are true.