Dearest Friends,

If any of you decide to move to SF, I would like to offer some advice.

Firstly, do not rely on a few people and their opinion of the safety of a neighborhood, especially if they don't actually live in SF.

Secondly, do combine search terms such as : X neighborhood + shootings + gang violence + "your general run-of-the-mill (you can ( Read more... )

Assuming maybe some of you skimmed my rather long rambling last entry, I have been looking in to criticism of anarchism, and realizing perhaps what I was having trouble with is CrimethINC's brand of anarchy  (deemed "post-left anarchism").  I've been reading a few different anarchist's' criticism of the movement as a priveleged, white, suburban ( Read more... )

I've been reading the anarchist literature scattered about Becca's digs, picking and choosing my way through.  Most of my beliefs are well aligned with the anarchist movement, and I think this is often reflected in my writing.  I can't really say any of it has challenged my thinking too much, largely because I already agree with what is being said.

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the new "street feature" on google maps is crazy.

i searched for my apartment and then sat there and looked at it.

i guess if i ever miss the city, i can come back via google.

creepy.

I'm reading "Deep Economy" right now, an "advanced" proof I dug out of the crates of books sent to The Nation on a weekly basis.  I have been wanting to read it for a while, although I was under a misguided impression it would pick apart conventional economics in the way I prescribe, that the cost to the environment be taken into account in the ( Read more... )

Spring Awakening.

Gotta love that feeling inside.

NEW YORK, January 9, 2007 - A colossal media event a year-and-a-half in the making will unfold when Stephen Colbert ventures into the "No Spin Zone" to make his debut guest appearance on FOX News Channel's (FNC) The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday, January 18th at 8:00 PM. Later that evening Bill O'Reilly will grab his American passport and head over ( Read more... )

"Tomorrow, you are all going to wake up in a brave new world. A world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard earned money and use it to buy ( Read more... )

Yo, ya'all should go ( Read more... )

Double Plus Plus Plus Good
(and has a show in LA right now, apparently...)