Went to the South Nashville planning kickoff meeting last night. I feel so civic and responsible and stuff. This can’t be good for my street cred. Anyway all they did was give us a little presentation talking about sustainable urban development & tell us a bit about what the meetings are for. The real work [...]
The SelectSmart Candidate Selector is up & running. It seems to give pretty good results sometimes. Here’s how it scored me:
(100%) 1: Sen. Barack Obama (D)
(88%) 2: Gov. Bill Richardson (D)
(84%) 3: Ex-VP Al Gore (D)
(82%) 4: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D)
(81%) 5: Retired Gen. Wesley Clark (D)
(75%) 6: Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) Withdrew from race.
(72%) [...]
Many of us including myself have given WKRN’s Jamey Tucker a hard time about the overwhelming Christian (or at least Abrahamic) bias at his Faith and Ethics blog. So in the spirit of giving credit where due, I’m happy to link up to this announcement of a new Buddhist meditation center opening in Nashville.
It’s small, [...]
My friend Joey King, compatriot in both post-libertarian and Buddhist thought, sent me this link to a wonderful essay on the true nature of corporations. Though written from a Buddhist perspective, the essential message is universally understandable.
It’s as good and concise a summary as I’ve seen explaining the disconnect between the free-enterprise that conservative libertarians [...]
Kick ass. Mike and I are being sent by the benevolent employer out to the San Jose/San Francisco/Bay Area region for a MySQL conference. We’ll be there officially from 4/23 to 4/26, but can probably swing a few personal days on the head and/or tail of that week.
So, anyone have any input on things [...]
I’ve been meaning to say my piece on global warming for a while, so I’ll take this chance to springboard off Lesley’s wonderful post on the subject, since she pretty much said everything that I would.
The bottom line seems to be that yes, the earth is getting warmer, and the jury is out as to [...]
So Sunday I saw An Unreasonable Man. The film has definitely helped raise my esteem for Mr. Nader. I get it now.
Back in 2000, I basically knew who he was, but I didn’t grasp the sheer depth of his involvement in the shape of our society over the previous 30 years, or of the [...]
Pardon me while I channel the spirit of S-town Mike by spreading the word about some upcoming community planning for my South Nashville peeps:
Nashville.gov - Planning Department - Subarea 11
South Nashville’s Community Plan is seven years old, and due for an update; community input is a major part of that process, and we’re scheduling meetings [...]
Well well well — seems we’ve got a celebrity socialite among us!
Even though I’ve formally disassociated myself with the LP (seeing as they are apparently cool with bigots and drug warriors now), I still support ‘em when they’re on the right side of something. This is such a case:
URGENT UPDATE: This bill is now scheduled for hearings in the State Senate on March 20th and in [...]
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