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KN@PPSTER: State of the Union: A preemptive response

Sigh.
Every time I start to find myself shifting towards the left, it seems that all I have to do is spend time with some of ‘em to bring me back. Dropping in on the Cumberland Greens Bioregional Council yesterday turned out to be a surefire way of bringing out my inner Cartman — c’mon guys, [...]

savoring this time
thrilled and frightened, as we find
that yes, we reflect

OK, I guess I’m officially an addict. I was going to skip tonight’s Nashville Symphony performance, and catch the beginning of the Samurai Film Fest at the Belcourt instead — but I’m weak, I just can’t resist. Anyway the films will still be there Sunday… how often does Mozart turn 250?
Speaking of which, NPR [...]

I don’t know how many blurbs I’ve read criticizing Google over the China incident, accusing them of breaking the no-evil rule and so forth. This is just silly.
Google is not preventing anyone in China from accessing any part of the internet, they are voluntarily self-censoring the search results that they produce. And they are [...]

Huck threw out a challenge contending that there really are no libertarians, essentially that libs should just pick a side and be done with it, and this sparked some debate on NIT. Recognizing first of all that he was mostly just trying to stir up the hornets, I’m still going to have to disagree — [...]

RSSCalendar.com seems like an early step towards something I’ve been wanting to see for a good while, but I’m too lazy to do anything about myself.
Except I don’t think this method is really worth fooling with; what I forsee is organizations publicizing their own calendars, while our desktop organizers (Evolution, Outlook, etc), know how [...]

Continuing meme; however I have no ipod, so I used mp3kult to load the library on my htpc into MySQL and ran some queries. However I haven’t finished ripping all my cd’s to mp3 (I just did “R” this weekend), plus I’ve got 3 or 4 gigs of downloads that I haven’t moved into the [...]

On the subject of Democrats, mad props to Jim Cooper for introducing HR 4254: Corporate Entitlement Reform Act of 2005. I don’t think it goes nearly far enough but it’s a great start.
Could be very handy also for finding out where Republicans really stand on reducing government. Who wants to bet most of them will [...]

Alternet has an interesting article on Why Hillary Won’t Save Us.
The article begins very well, pointing out the uselessness of Ms. Clinton, and calling back on the courage of Gene McCarthy — basically saying the same things that Libertarians, Greens, and Naderites, all of whom wanted to support a good democrat ticket to oppose Bush, [...]