The Party of Sustainability?

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Thursday November 24, 2005 · 1:32 PM PST

2005/11/24 · 13:32

As we gear up fot the big push towards 2006, I want to invite those Dems and progressives that believe the Party should be one of authentic commitment to the environment and sustainabilty to join Democrats for the Environment. We successfully got the environment back on the Democratic Party Agenda a while back, at least on paper (and HTML). But now we need to keep it there and keep it real! Read More

Monty Python and the Peace Movement

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Tuesday August 16, 2005 · 3:46 PM PDT

2005/08/16 · 15:46

Arguably the best satire ever produced on political activist infighting was the classic scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian where the People's front of Judea terrorists stumble upon the Campaign for Free Galilee in the palace where both are intent on kidnapping Pilate's wife. Upon that realization, both groups accuse each of stealing the other's idea and set to brawling. Amid the ensuing melee Brian, ever the practical one, exclaims: Read More

Reflections of a Blogger?: The Medium is the Message

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Thursday August 11, 2005 · 10:31 AM PDT

2005/08/11 · 10:31

Just caught the streamed video from NPI's Reflections of a Blogger which, BTW, the Ringmaster highly recommends. Lot's of lessons to take away there but the overall message I gleaned was that, to paraphrase the obscure post-modern words of the infamous McLuhan, the medium is that message. Not to be unduly obscure myself, all I mean to say is that it's not our father's - or mother's - media anymore. I know, Duh! But my belabored point here is that the medium by which the content is delivered or exchanged directly influences the nature of that content and how it is processed.
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Time for a Reality Check, on A Bigger Tent and Beyond

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Tuesday August 09, 2005 · 9:58 AM PDT

2005/08/09 · 09:58

It began during the Iraq Invasion. Whenever I tuned into CNN, up until then my first choice in news, I found myself evermore weary and frustrated with the sanitized, "we're more butch than FOX News" war coverage displayed on their USA network. It seemed that all the commercial American networks, what with their officially sanctioned and censored embeds and the like, had been relegated to mere sports announcers dutifully calling the game and towing the administration's line. More and more often I would surf over to CNN International, which I found to be significantly less slanted towards a coalition of the willing cheerleading role, and about as often to NWI, the CBC's cable news network piped to the US. Geez, what a difference editing makes! It was like they were covering a completely different war than the American news channels. Read More

Of Hacket, the Promise of "The New Politics", and Some Politics as Usual

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Thursday August 04, 2005 · 10:18 AM PDT

2005/08/04 · 10:18

In the Immortal words of Maxwell Smart, Hackett "missed it by that much". Now that the Ringmaster's carbon-dated himself, we'll get on with the point. Read More

Pass the Ritalin, Al Gore's Current TV has Arrived!

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Tuesday August 02, 2005 · 11:39 AM PDT

2005/08/02 · 11:39

It's not boring.. not very. It's slick.. kind of. It's cerebral.. not really. It's Al Gore's Current cable TV Network. Dude, I think think I just had a seizure! Read More

The Unsinkable Hillary Clinton?

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Wednesday July 27, 2005 · 10:14 AM PDT

2005/07/27 · 10:14

It is inexorable. The sheer consuming power of it leaves one breathless and in awe, like a giant black hole at the center of the progressive political galaxy. Yes, the juggernaut that is Hillary may well be unstoppable. Read More

Is Liberal TV DOA?

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Tuesday July 26, 2005 · 4:07 PM PDT

2005/07/26 · 16:07

Here's one take on the potential pitfalls of Al Gore's incursion into "non"partisan, youth targeted TV. This from a 2003 story by FAIR's Jim Naureckas that they just recycled via their news feed in a timely manner: Read More

Whither the Young?: Stalking The Elusive Plum Demographic

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Tuesday July 26, 2005 · 9:04 AM PDT

2005/07/26 · 09:04

There we were. A packed labor hall filled to bursting with determined activists. Sweating but un-stifled in the midsummer swelter, we'd come to topple a tyrant. Here was a raucous mix of aged beat hipsters, aging hippy boomers, hip Gen Xers and, and... where the heck are the kids?!? In this noble quest to combat tyranny, Gen Y is apparently as AWOL as, well, ol Dubya himself. To coin a phrase, what's up with that? Granted, it's a sunny Saturday afternoon in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of be-sloganed fugitives from a Pete Seeger concert shoe-horned into an air conditionless un-wired AFL-CIO Temple of all places may seem as tired and anachronistic as the AFL-CIO is itself about to become. But, be that as it may, the average age had to be 45 or even 50 and the number of attendees south of 30 one could practically count on one's one hand. I was glancing around for a defibrillator unit just in case, I tell ya.

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Victory! Environment just added to DNC Issue Agenda

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 8:37 AM PDT

2005/07/19 · 08:37

As I busily internetworked this fine sunny AM towards the goal of getting the DNC to put the Earth, if not "First", at least on the Party agenda, A co-conspirator emailed the news.

Victory!:

http://www.democrats.org/agenda.html#environment

Thanks to everyone who signed the petition or contacted the DNC. And thanks to whomever over there (Howard?) for realizing that we are indeed the pro-environment party!

Go Dems 06 and 08!!!

Dean speaks for you but does he speak for the environment?

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Saturday July 16, 2005 · 1:44 PM PDT

2005/07/16 · 13:44

Some may not be aware that thhe DNC does not currently include the environment among the Party's official agenda issues listed on their web site, http://democrats.org/agenda.html. As a Democrat and an environmentalist, I feel this is a huge mistake that needs to be corrected immediately. It sends the wrong message at a time when environmental concerns are greater than ever.
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Note to the DNC: It is Indeed Also the Environment, "Stupid"!

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 3:28 PM PDT

2005/07/13 · 15:28

I apparently owe the New Democrat Network an apology of sorts. The Ringmaster recently lambasted the NDN for low-balling the environment by not featuring it prominently on their site along with other hot button issues, and instead including it as almost an afterthought listed dead last on their agenda page. Imagine my embarrassment when, having just visited the DNC's Democrats.org for the first time since the recent face lift, I find that the environment isn't on our party's listed agenda at all! Pardon me Howard, but WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?!?
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