Dec
31
In truth there is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorn
New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them […]
Dec
31
The email said:
40 million people in the world are infected with HIV and that number is rising daily. The majority of these people do not have access to life-saving treatment.
Here is something simple you can do to help fight a problem that affects us all…
Bristol-Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS every time someone goes […]
Dec
30
Here’s an interesting list from AlterNet - their ten most popular stories of the year. ALterNet is a great resource, although a couple of the stories surprised me.
They also have the top ten most discussed (which leans hard on 9/11), the top ten Iraq myths, the top ten outrageous right-wing comments of 2006, the […]
Dec
29
I’ve set up an account at Associated Content (the People’s Media Company). I like the idea of grassroots content production (perhaps even with some payment!).
There is already a well-established database of interesting and fresh information - I found the site by stumbling upon an interview with a JW.
I think I’d probably write on religious […]
Dec
28
Roy Walter N. Jr
Nov 5, 1935 - Dec 28, 2003
Miss you, Daddy.
Mourning is not forgetting.
It is an undoing.
Every minute tie has to be untied
and something permanent and valuable
recovered and assimilated from the dust.
- Margery Allingham
Dec
27
How is it that the US Energy Policy is a secret?
How is it that global energy corporations, participants like Enron, and an overseeing Cheney, can produce our policy in secret, and keep it secret from the population?
How could it be that in a democracy (even a weighted representative two-party democracy such as we […]
Dec
26
Stephen Colbert suggested a mashup between The Beatles’ White Album and traditional Christmas songs. The response - well, see for yourself. Keegan Grayson has a long list already - go see! There is also a download for you to mash your own combinations, and as some are better than others there is plenty of room […]
