MoveOn.org finally took a step I've been waiting for them to take since they started. Here's the email I just received:
Dear MoveOn member,

How would you like to send an email to all 5 million MoveOn members-or even just the ones in North Carolina or Durham-inviting them to join you in fighting for a cause you feel passionately about?

Well, ( Read more... )

Thing One
In response to a post on asexy beast, I found myself wondering if there is such a thing as a nondating/friendship site where individuals can choose what sorts of expressions-of-affection they are comfortable with (and under what circumstances ( Read more... )

I caught this meme from kdsorceress; I apologize if it's contagious. The exercise, in case it's not obvious, is to describe what advice you would give your 15-year-old self. ( Read more... )

I think I'm noticing a pattern... or maybe I already noticed it and have now figured out how to explain it ( Read more... )

Libertarians like to cite the adage "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, and he can feed himself for life" -- generally attacking the idea of a social safety net because it discourages people from being self-supporting1It seems to me that they are overlooking what actually happens: "Build an automated fishery, and you don ( Read more... )

I should be able to ( Read more... )

I just accidentally rediscovered this image, in a 2006 post complaining about tech conference t-shirts not being sexy enough:


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There's a debate going on about Julian Assange. I thought it might make a good example for my debate mapping technique, which I want to turn into software some day when I have time (or a horde of devoted coding minions).
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Are all libertarians jerks? Or just esr (and most of the other ones I've talked with)? Or am I possibly overreacting?

The short version is here, the slightly shortened but still rather long version of the prologue/context is here, and the full dialogue is here if you're really desperately trying to unload some spare time ( Read more... )

I keep trying to post this comment to ESR's latest blog entry, and it keeps doing absolutely nothing, and other people are apparently commenting just fine, so I'm going to post it here instead:
In case this hasn't already been pointed out, the main "entitlement" which contributed to the current financial crisis in the US was Bush's tax cuts for the ( Read more... )