I think I need to recommend “Savoring the Journey” again, now that Amanda’s really gotten started. She’s managed to create one of the most literate and thoughtful weblog startups I’ve seen. Bookmark it, put it on your links list. You won’t be sorry.
Author: Adam (Page 105 of 224)
RUSS FEINGOLD IN ’04!
“Actually, the Democrats have been rather impotent for the last two years. They should have at least been able to stall the President’s idiotic agenda. Instead, they chose to cave to Bush’s asinine claims to a mandate by the people, and did exactly what he wanted. Which left them completely incapable of running against the Republican platform since, hey, they supported it.”
-Jaye B., guest poster on Useless! Worthless! Insipid!
10 famous people I’d enjoy having over for dinner
(aka the Desert Island 10)
-Allison Janney
-Steve Wozniak
-Jamie Lee Curtis
-Jon Stewart
-Dolly Parton
-John Sayles
-Molly Ivins
-Russ Feingold
-Julia Child
-Gene Hackman
Feel free to make this into a meme, should you so desire.
(Ed note: living only)
Word of the day: neologism
I guess because John blogged Salon, it’s OK for me to as well.
I actually like Keith Olbermann’s idea where people can vote for “none of the above,” and if that candidate wins, the election is scrapped and held again. The hosers who were actually on the ballot are prohibited from competing in the recast election. “We could make the politicians afraid of the voters again,” says Olbermann. Bravo to that, say I.
Sort of hit a wall with “The Game Neverending.” It’s relatively easy at this point to amass wealth and experience, and I’ve pretty much exhausted all the locations in the prototype game. But I think it has tremendous potential – it’s much more community- and people-oriented than other online games I’ve experienced, and it’s simple enough in structure that you don’t wander around for very long having no idea what you’re doing. It’s clever and makes you smile, and the graphics are a 2-D breath of fresh air. Once some of the endless possibilities are opened up when the actual game goes live in the spring, I think it’ll be the first online multiplayer game I’ve ever seriously considered playing.
If you play, let me know your in-game handle so I can say hello. (Mine is “Padre Denny.”)
Anyone who thought their vote didn’t matter got an education on that topic two years ago, when literally a handful of votes separated Gore and Bush.
Every. vote. matters.
My friend Susan was saying the other night she remembers how many people were saying in 2000, “There’s no difference between Gore and Bush. They’re two halves of the same bad coin. It doesn’t matter.” Well, I think few people on either side of the political spectrum would agree today that things aren’t fundamentally different because of that outcome.
I just want to encourage everyone out there to vote tomorrow. Take a little time and just do it. The defenders of the status quo want people to be apathetic and stay home, because then they control the agenda. Voting matters. It’s the first and most important step toward taking back a democracy that’s gotten seriously out of hand.
Votes mean things.
“Do you really think it’s a good idea to be handing out guns in a bank?”
The funny thing is, Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” isn’t really about guns at all. It’s about racism, economic inequalities, and a media that whips us all into a froth of constant fear. I can’t say I agree with all of his talking points, but I can say that we need more people like Moore in our society today – rabble-rousers who get people thinking about uncomfortable topics, no matter what their conclusions are.
You know you’re watching something interesting when Marilyn Manson gives the most cogent, insightful interview in the entire film.
Moore left out some stuff that I wish he had included – anything about drugs, and any breakdown of how those 11,000 yearly U.S. gun deaths occurred. But overall, it’s packed with thought-provoking words and images. It’s a much deeper film than “Roger and Me,” and probably worth more than one viewing for anyone interested in the topics it deals with.
One thing the film did for me was reinforce what an epically selfish society we live in – “My Way or the Highway” should be the new national motto. We have little or no sense of community, and most things we come in contact with on a daily basis reinforce what my friend Mike VS calls our “savagely Darwinian” society. And when the underlying ethos is “kill or be killed,” no wonder we have a problem with guns.
Highly recommended.
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I’m sure posting a lot today.