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Friday April 21, 2006 · 7:36 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 07:36

(Cross-posted on TexasKOS.com)

Left Blogistan is wide open, and I like it that way. I also like the "communities" that form within it; from the giant metro-sites like Kos, to the cozy villages populated by a few eccentrics. And, although it is not incorrect to call them communities, cultural critics may be on to something when they criticize, their, well, "virtualness".

Yes, we well may be intensely engaged intellectually and even emotionally with our Blogistan communities. We learn in them, we laugh in them, and we are even moved to action in the reality-based communities we also inhabit because of them. But we cannot lose that very human, very satisfying, and very necessary experience of "Presence". Read More

WTF Are We Willing to Sacrifice?

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Tuesday May 03, 2005 · 1:43 PM PDT

2005/05/03 · 13:43

In the May 2nd edition of the Dallas Morning News, in a piece excerpted from Mother Jones, Garrett Keizer discusses the problem the Left faces in battling the deconstruction of America by neo-theo-nazi-cons. He starts by describing the difficulties faced by those hard-working and troubled members of another world, which, in another time, we called "the lower middle class". Those are the folks like my son-in-law, an unemployed machinist who only wants a job, health insurance for his family, and a six-pack on Friday night. He would like to be able to provide a private education for his daughter who is learning disabled, and to take his son fishing every few weeks. He would be really happy if most folks he knows had jobs, a decent place to live and enough to eat. He would think there would be heaven on earth if folks didn't kill each other, kids didn't do drugs, everybody got happily and healthily laid, and there was a river of margaritas nearby to drink from when there was a fajita barbecue goin' on. About folks like my Ned, my son-in-law, Keizer says: Read More

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