Scorched Earth: Making the GOP Do What It Says
[Originally posted 09NOV2004 to the DailyKos Diaries.] I’ve been giving a lot of thought about how I would council the Federal Democratic Minority. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: Return to the first principles of politics. If politics is the way a society distributes resources then political contest […]
Posted on November 12th, 2004
Scorched Earth: Making the GOP Do What It Says
I’ve been giving a lot of thought about how I would council the Federal Democratic Minority. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: Return to the first principles of politics.If politics is the way a society distributes resources then political contest is all about who takes from whom. The […]
Posted on November 9th, 2004
November 2 2004, 11:49pm
Fuck. I’m sorry, folks. We didn’t do what we needed to do. The markets will be down tomorrow because there isn’t a clear winner in the US election (apparently Wall Street hates uncertainty). No matter what the pundits say, it’s unlikely we’ll know the outcome until all the absentee ballots […]
Posted on November 2nd, 2004
Freak Power Endorsement of John Kerry
Hunter S. Thompson, the good doctor of Gonzon journalism, has issued his endorsement of John Kerry, a candidate it will be fun to vote for. If Richard Nixon, who Thompson called Hitler in 1972, were running against George W. Bush, the Doctor would happily vote for him. “If Nixon were […]
Posted on October 25th, 2004
Future topics for the OpenDNA Project
Article Ideas dug out of a retired MLP directory (originally posted 04FEB2004): Open Design, Native Architecture The established forms of our society, economy and state consist of both a fundamental superstructure and a changeable body. The former is the radical core that establishes the rules and defines the parameters of […]
Posted on October 23rd, 2004
Centrist vs…
…I am, as far as I can tell, more or less a centrist, equally repelled by either extreme of the political spectrum. Indeed, I believe that the spectrum forms a full circle, with right and left merging, as they meet at their respective extremes, into luminous batshit evil. —William Gibson. […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2004
On Losing a Billion Dollars
A friend of mine who runs hedge funds recently tried to explain to me how really astronomical amounts of money can go missing more easily than smaller, more comprehensible amounts. “Nobody really understands what 1.4 billion dollars means, what it looks like, or where it might go.” —William Gibson. 17 […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2004
Changing a Lightbulb
How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2004
A Ray of Sunshine
The barrister writes: Just in case you thought you weren’t doing very well, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and co-author of “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke,” wrote in 2003: “This year, more people will end up bankrupt than will suffer a heart attack. […]
Posted on August 29th, 2004
Who’s Behind That Nutty “Nonprofit”?
THIS DIARY CONTAINS ONE LINK YOU REALLY SHOULD BOOKMARK GuideStarIn a diary, titled Request For Information, user Jonathan wondered who was behind the Fairness Foundation. In a comment, Just call me Mr. FOIA, I posted my findings: It’s a front for washington healthcare and education privitizers, including one congressman, one […]
Posted on August 28th, 2004
The Greatest Weight
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in […]
Posted on August 20th, 2004
Sunovab*$^#%!
Apparently on June 6th, while trying to port everything over to the OpenDNA.com server I reset all the time stamps. In Blosxom that means all the files were written simultaniously – all 87 posts were written on June 7th. Fat chance. I hate it when I break things and have […]
Posted on June 25th, 2004
How To Win Friends And
“First of all, most of Europe supported the decision in Iraq. Really what you’re talking about is France, isn’t it? And they didn’t agree with my decision. They did vote for the U.N. Security Council resolution. … We just had a difference of opinion about whether, when you say something, […]
Posted on June 25th, 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 Opens 6/25
Dear Friends, I don’t usually forward jokes or campaigns or calls to action and the like. So this is an exception (hopefully forgiven because it’s original). Michael Moore’s documentary entitled “Fahrenheit 9/11” opens tomorrow, June 25th (the first showing in San Francisco is 12:01am). I want to encourage all of […]
Posted on June 20th, 2004
More Flash Fun: www.bushgame.com
BushCo has enlisted the help of Voltron to rule the world, but real Americans like Hulk Hogan, fat ass He-Man and Mr T set out to capture Voltron’s tokens and return American to balance. Enlist the help of heros like Howard Dean and fight Big Bosses like Tom Ridge and […]
Posted on June 8th, 2004
An Interview With The Govnar
On May 30, 2004, Sacramento Bee reporter Daniel Weintraub sat down with Governor Schwarzenegger for a one-on-one interview. The interview with Arnold revealed a maturing political mind, humble but sophisticated. For the first time I feel like I really like this guy; like I want to vote for him and […]
Posted on June 1st, 2004