Presidential candidate and all-around fantastic guy John Edwards has joined MyBlogLog, and VirusHead is the very blog community that he has joined! Thank you! I sure would like to see him win the Presidency. Download The Plan to Build One America (80 pp., pdf) to see some of the reasons why I am supporting John Edwards. Here is Edwards’ response to the State of the Union Address last night: The president tonight renewed his call for an economic recovery plan….
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Some recommended reading – do your homework. Saving the World By Stopping the Pentagon’s Programs By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet All that work against nuclear proliferation – gone, gone, gone. Another way we make the world a more dangerous place. Then there is “Complex 2030,” a proposal to consolidate and update the entire nuclear complex, including the opening of a new plutonium “pit” facility capable of producing 125 new bombs a year. Estimated price tag: $150 billion over 25 years. The…
I have always loved the idea of synchronicity. I heard this song for the first time tonight as I contemplated whether to watch the State of the Union Address: Prodigal son by Jan Gloeckner If you find you keep slipping on your tongue well I got some suggestions to offer you pick one you can tie it round your neck, like a prodigal son but you won’t win the game cause it’s already won could of helped a man who…
I somehow made it all the way through the State of the Union address last night. Much as I disagree with the Bush administration, I even found him unusually appealing. I actually had the thought, “Well, maybe most of this administration’s ugliness is Cheney. Maybe Bush means some of what he is saying here.” I thought he really tried to appeal to our hopefulness at a very sour time – that showed some good leadership. But that’s about it. So…
A pithy statement of the state of the disunion from Cup O’Joe: Have yourself a nice, steaming hot Cup O’ Joe! I believe in the long term that things will get better, but I believe that things will have to get pretty bad before the conditions for that sort of improvement will take place. And if there are any out there that still doubt the seriousness of this struggle, let me remind you of a few things: People who issue…