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Archive for March, 2009
Bill Richardson: still one of the good guys
Thursday, March 19th, 2009His current woes regarding pay-to-play accusations notwithstanding, those of us who think it’s anathema for the state to commit murder (and unless you think the state is infallible, you can’t escape the reality that it sometimes does) still have to love this guy:
Richardson, a Democrat who formerly supported capital punishment, said signing the bill was [...]
Something in the Water
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009A nice shot across the bow on both geonomic and anti-corporate issues, via The Progress Report:
Today the citizens of Shapleigh, Maine voted at a special town meeting to pass a groundbreaking Rights-Based Ordinance, 114 for and 66 against. This revolutionary ordinance give its citizens the right to local self-governance and gives rights to ecosystems but [...]
Founding Brothers
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Somehow I had not until now gotten around to watching Spike Lee’s excellent biography of Malcolm X. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago I saw the Ken Burns PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson. Together the two films suggest an interesting comparison of the two men, as regards their curiously intersecting natures as great flawed heroes.
We see [...]
Red States Going Red
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Via S-Town Mike we find out that apparently, the conservative movement is finally coming to terms with the inescapable conclusion that free market principles mandate communal ownership of the earth’s resources, by embracing the thoroughly Georgist anthem “This Land is Your Land” –
As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said [...]
