From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader

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."

Comments

WTF

[kelemvor4]

WTF is someone who is intelligent enough to graduate from college (MIT no less) doing associating themselves with the Tea Party. It's got to be some kind of paid publicity stunt.

Re:WTF

[jgotts]

Possible causes:

1) Compartmentalizing.

2) People's minds decline as they age.

3) Brainwashing.

Re:Tea

[PopeRatzo]

As for your calls of censorship on top of that, fuck off.

This asshole has just made statements to remove both the first and second amendment from your list of freedoms. I'm not sure why it is insightful, dictatorships never are and that is what this is wanting.

Mr Beck, I didn't suggest removal of the First and Second amendments from your "list of freedoms". I suggested that their original intent, as clearly expressed by the guys who wrote those amendments, have been perverted by nasty little shits like you, who would happily piss in a public swimming pool and say, "Hey, it's a free country! So that means I get to piss and shit in the public pool. You betcha!"

And I certainly did not call for "censorship", you pathetic coward.