tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50958272011-07-31T09:20:36.532+02:00Past selves are fools. - Pynchonkneelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17486707999724256642noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5095827.post-1150858332098215412006-06-21T04:52:00.000+02:002006-08-30T01:42:37.466+02:00

Instead of waiting and hoping somehow the Republican congress and state governments decide to give us democracy, we could go ahead and start ourselves.All the things we want, things we just dream about, that are so difficult (or impossible) to do by federal and state law, could easily be implemented within the party - from campaign finance reform to term limits to direct democracy. The result

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Yes Virginia, It's Spyware (oh... and Beware of the Leopard)So we discover that Windows Genuine Advantage, what seemed a harmless little utility to check the serial numbers, is in fact snooping and secretly reporting back to Microsoft.Microsoft says this isn't spyware.Actually, it's the very definition of spyware.And they knew it. They even have it set up deceptively so that you have to copy the

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Because I have some unpleasant critiques about French life these days, I need to make clear that none of my criticism comes from the idiotic Freedom Fries perspective.The Freedom Fries criticisms of France run, basically that France did something terrible to "our troops", and that the French hate America , or even Americans as individuals. Jay Leno said the French were spitting on Americans. It

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Good afternoon.Today's interview is with a man who needs no introduction, Randall P. Wentworth, IV. He's known to his friends as "Bartholomew". Let's begin:Bartholomew, you're a true, rags-to-riches, self-made billionaire. How did you get your start?Yes, I started with nothing, penniless, on the street.But you wanted to improve your situation?Not just mine. It wasn't just a selfish

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Attacking pop. 

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Lilou, just before Chloe gave her away. The next day, she realized what a terrible mistake she'd made. 

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Lilou attacking her pop, the Damnation. 

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Picture Jenny took of me in Maui. Everyone loves this picture... everyone except me.

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Lilou, same day. 

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Picture Chloe took of me, Montpellier, France. Cold.

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It's always confusing when people who declare themselves pro-life support things like the death penalty. There's seems to be this fanaticism that life begins at conception and ends at birth... or it if doesn't end, rapidly diminishes in value - the opposite of the way most people view it.Hence the surreal inversion where people shrieking about the "sanctity of life" gleefully support executions

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Beur Republic: Factors Behind the French RiotsThere have been various analyses of the French riots, almost all of them from a comfortably remote viewpoint.In "A War of Words", Françoise Mouly, art editor for the New Yorker, said of the French rioters, "As true Frenchmen, they understand the importance of discourse [...] they seem to parse the fine nuances of every word; then they fight back

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Today we have lies from Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson.GIBSON: In part of their campaign to shift Katrina (non)response blame from Bush, Gibson weirdly pushed FOX's hackneyed blame-the-French misdirection, stating, "... After all, when the French President presided over the deaths of 15,000 elderly in Paris in a heat wave, he took the international derision, not the mayor of Paris."Well, this is

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Though many feel Thomas Friedman lost his credibility long ago with his goofy, nonsensical columns about Iraq (You should support the Iraq war 'cause I say so, dammit, and because people who oppose it are a bunch of ninnies!), you don't need to keep going back to that, just look at his current column.He reacts to the Katrina aftermath by lauding the government of Singapore (Singapore? Fascism

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Did you see this "taking responsibility"? He looked everywhere but at the people asking the questions, he shrugged... he was a little kid forced to say something he didn't want to.What's weird, though, is that all the headlines ran BUSH TAKES RESPONSIBILITY. He didn't at all.Bush: "Katrina, uh, exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that

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In their desperate campaign to misdirect, to deflect responsibility from their figurehead, those freeloaders at Fox have resorted to some strange tactics, among them, lying, ridiculing the victim, and insisting that the overall solution is... greed.The desperation has been evident in the vigor of their attacks on everyone else (we might include Rush Limbaugh twisting the NO mayor's name into a

kneelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17486707999724256642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5095827.post-1125642077143301142005-09-02T08:21:00.000+02:002005-09-10T19:13:00.903+02:00

This is from a post I made on Alternet.org, in response to some of the typical nonsense about... well, just read it. Some people somehow thought I was in earnest:Frumkinlovesmoney [another poster] is right, you people. The American taxpayer can't be expected to do everything.In a post under Katrina's Economic Impact, Frumkin tells us that New Orleans was (was?) a corrupt city with "one of the

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Synopsis: If they thought he might blow it up, how could the police have let Jean Charles de Menezes get on the train?Before shooting him, a special police team was observing and following Jean Charles de Menezes for quite a while. Their fear, the whole time they were following him, was that he would go to the subway.And then he did.That was when the police sprang into action...Sort of.They

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Amazing how effective giving it is giving answers that are simple, straightforward and wrong.There's an old cartoon from when Reagan and Carter were vying for the presidency, in 1980: the two candidates are each asked a question and have a blackboard to write the answer.Reagan has immediately written "5"; Carter has filled the blackboard with equations and formulas, flipped it over and filled the

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