I just found out about the free screenings of "Invisible Ballots", a documentary about electronic touch-screen voting machines. The fact that at least one library system near me is showing this is a good sign, since librarians in general tend to be non-partisan and favor free and open access to information ( Read more... )

Go back with me to the thrilling days of yesteryear, as I try to recapture the kind of thinking I used to exercise around the time I was a sophomore in college ( Read more... )

"Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare."

Harry Truman

Today I'm going to put in a good word for Dominick Anfiteatro, because it's through him that I got my kefir grains. I got them directly from someone living near me, who had gotten his directly from Dom, who shipped them all the way from Australia ( Read more... )

G. Y. W. O ( Read more... )

This is more of your typical blog entry ("I ate peanut butter for breakfast, couldn't find bread, so I got depressed, put on some black clothing, played some depressing music on my out-of-tune ukelele. I hate my life, except when I remember how good it was to make out with that chick [or was it a dude? good kisser, either way] at the bar last week ( Read more... )

This idea had been kicking around for quite some time, and surely not just with me, but it's become more compelling over the last week or two ( Read more... )

A friend sent me this message ( Read more... )

...Two Things ( Read more... )

"The Molecules of Hipness" is a TV show in an alternative world, where people actually learn some true things from TV and are not addicted to it, because they have lives. Advertising is severely limited by our usual standards (if you can call them "standards"), but the restrictions are not felt, because they are common sense in the world where " ( Read more... )