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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
— , Human Action [1949]
activism
Concerns about Huckabee
I at first found Mike Huckabee to be an interesting character, as a possible bright point in the dismal lineup of presidential candidates. Unfortunately, his character did not bear up well when I looked at him further, and I'm sorry to see that some bloggers like Rod Dreher still think he's a viable politician or […]
Five for Freedom
Join me in supporting the Five for Freedom initiative, headed up by former Google employee and newly-minted American citizen, Vijay Boyapati.
No Open Government in Pittsburgh
Recently I highlighted a grassroots effort to make Pittsburgh's government more open to public scrutiny - or return it to that state, as the case happens to be. Sadly, that effort has met with failure. "Pittsburghers won't have a chance to vote for an 'open government' referendum on Nov. 8, but […]
AstroTurf Activism
Cut-and-Paste
Propaganda Infiltrates Opinion Pages By Paul Farhi
Reader, beware! Some of America's newspapers have become
unwitting conduits for campaign propaganda. Thanks to some nifty Internet technology, the campaigns of President Bush and John F. Kerry are making it easy for their supporters to pass off the campaigns' talking points as just […]
Mission Creep
When I attended the United for Peace and Justice anti-war rally in Pittsburgh at the beginning of '03, I was annoyed and frustrated by the horrendous mission creep there. I was there to stop what I felt was an unjust war (we can argue that point […]
