After taking some time to calm down and get through denial, anger, and bargaining, here are my thoughts on the matter. Politically, it was a potentially shrewd move for Obama to to invite one of the not-quite-batshit-crazy megachurch leaders to give his inaugural invocation. Because even though Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren thinks that ( Read more... )

Here's Plaidder's rundown on the VP debate. In short: we win on substance, they win on style - again. It went a little differently from the debate in her head, which pretty well sums up how I feel about Obama as I oscillate between hope and despair of ever reversing the policies of the last 8 years.
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Welcome to Mussolini's America, folks. Please pass this on to anybody who hasn't heard. Talk about it, blog about it, and maybe we can get some media coverage. Also, please see update at bottom.

FBI/local police raid *suspected* protesters in St. Paul - before the convention.

From the Salon article, emphasis mine:
Several of those who were ( Read more... )

for a serious WTF.

Apparently the millionaire McCain family has several hundred thousand dollars in AmEx debt... and AmEx has been floating them a 0% interest rate since at least 2007.

Marx is pointing his cold, dead finger and laughing.

P.S. Why haven't there been gas riots yet?

Clearly I have not been livejournaling very much. I am trying to read my friends page on a regular basis ( Read more... )

Ok, so when I last posted in May, my compy was on the fritz and I was freaking out about whether my data was intact and whether I could fix the thing, stubborn bastard that I am. I am proud to say that I have repaired a 15" Powerbook and recovered my data. (Well, ok, stuck a new part in, but you should've seen the number of screws I has to keep ( Read more... )

If you've never read Plaidder's Women On Fire series, the following is going to make much less sense to you. (But you should really go ask Plaidder for all 2000+ pages of her series, because it's THAT good.) I guess lovessong can nod her head sagely in response to my insight, but for the rest of you I'll try to explain without terrible spoilers or ( Read more... )

...because my laptop died, out of warranty. Although this has been discussed a little on dfunkman's journal, to recap ( Read more... )

State of the Household, 2007.
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I'm thinking about sustainable urban living. (Well, sometimes anyway. Other times I'm just thinking about bikes and beer.) These urban homestead folks provide a grand example.

Also, a thought-provoking article about veganism, factory farms, ethical responsibility, and sustainability was posted on the bikers' board. Not the standard guilt-tripping ( Read more... )