Small blog-aided victory

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Saturday February 26, 2005 · 10:03 AM PST

2005/02/26 · 10:03

I reported earlier on the good work of Harold Feld (of the Media Access Project) over on Wetmachine to shine a light on slimey, telco-sponsored, anti-democratic bills in Pennsylvania and Indiana.

Harold now reports that the Indiana bill has gone down in flames, a victory due in no small part to awareness created by bloggers like Harold.

Disclosure: Wetmachine is my site, and with this diary I'm blog-whoring. Nevertheless it won't cost you much to follow the links, and I'm sure that if you click like I'm telling you to click, darling, it will make you feel so, goooooood. Read More

On reponses to the USAN AARP smear

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Tuesday February 22, 2005 · 4:05 PM PST

2005/02/22 · 16:05

What he said.

Over at the Left Coaster, Steve Soto has a simple, elegant plan for a counter-offensive to the latest Rovian propaganda. Coupled with the photoshop reponse championed here, Soto's plan might prove quite effective-- especially to a polity thirsty for a real opposition party.

I'll contact my local dems tomorrow -- representatives in congress, statehouse, senate & also Democratic Party people. Respectfully suggest y'all do likewise.

I forgive Ted Kennedy

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Tuesday February 01, 2005 · 4:21 PM PST

2005/02/01 · 16:21

Ted Kennedy has been my senator for 25 years. With a few minor quibbles here and there, his politics are my politics.

I've never voted for him. Read More

Blogging No on Gonzales

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Wednesday January 26, 2005 · 5:19 AM PST

2005/01/26 · 05:19

I've added my two cents over on my blog Wetmachine.

It's quite eloquent, I must thay. I do hope you'll check it out. While there, as long as I'm blog-whoring, you should read my colleage Harold Feld's series "Tales of the Sausage Factory." It's one of the best things going on the politics and technology of the media cartel.

My WSJournalGate letter

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Saturday January 15, 2005 · 1:52 PM PST

2005/01/15 · 13:52

Below the fold: Text of my email to the editors & writers of the JournalGate piece.

The subject on my letter was "Amateur Hour at the WSJ." Read More

Grass roots democracy: reprise

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Thursday January 13, 2005 · 8:28 AM PST

2005/01/13 · 08:28

Yesterday I posted a diary here about some nasty pending legislation in Indiana that needs some prompt citizen action, which diary I am hereby diary whoring (semantic/philosophical connudrum:does it count as diary whoring if you only promote your diary in your own diary? And only post one diary a day or fewer? And never even clog up the idle jibber-jabber open threads with links to the one diary entry/call to action that you're trying to promote?)

I'm pimping this story because I want your help getting the word out to people, especially Hoosiers, who still have time to do something about it.

Below the fold: why Indiana matters, and why I'm an obstacle to the progress of human knowledge. Read More

Another tale of blogging for democracy

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Wednesday January 12, 2005 · 5:21 AM PST

2005/01/12 · 05:21

A few months ago Verizon sponsored a bill in Pennsylvania to outlaw municipal wireless networks. It was a bad bill (a) because it contained all kinds of sweetheart deals for entrenched corporations, most notably Verizon and (b) it was profoundly antidemocratic, in that wireless networks are increasingly central to political discourse in this country.

Harold Feld, of the Media Access Project writes a series about media and democracy called "Tales of the Sausage Factory." His close analysis of the PA bill was a key motivator to the resistance to the bill, which caught the perpetrators a little off guard.

Thanks to a mini-firestorm of citizen protest generated by blog land (several other bloggers wrote their own analyses), some of the very worst aspects of this bill were toned down before it was, alas, signed into law.

Now Harold is back with another Tale of the Sausage Factory about a new, and much worse, corporate-sponsored anti-democratic bill to outlaw municipal wireless in Indiana.
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Well hello again everybody

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Monday December 20, 2004 · 5:09 PM PST

2004/12/20 · 17:09

Like many of y'all I found that the so-called election knocked the stuffing out of me. I've been lurking around dkos since, but haven't found the energy to post a diary. Not to mention the Ohio Wars got to be a little wearying.

But here's a happy thought, brought about by the upcoming 30th anniversary reunion of Peace Corps Senegal, classes of 1973-75 which has reintroduced me to people I haven't talked to in, well, 28 years. Read More

In a nutshell

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 8:27 AM PDT

2004/10/27 · 08:27

Republicans consider the teaching of active, responsible citizenship a disgraceful use of taxpayer money."

It's a cliche but I keep coming back to it: just when you think these people cannot do anything else to shock you, they shock you again.

Well too bad for the Republicans, because the Mosh is on. . .

Some chats

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 9:31 AM PDT

2004/10/25 · 09:31

I'm on the Bush/Cheney mail list. And I didn't even have to sign a loyalty oath to get on it!

See below the fold for the latest, which gives dates and times for some online chats that are coming up. I'm busy with a bunch of work deadlines, but perhaps some of y'all will like to join in and ask a few questions? Read More

Voted yesterday

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Saturday October 16, 2004 · 6:03 AM PDT

2004/10/16 · 06:03

I live in the town of Tisbury on the People's Republic of Martha's Vineyard, an island loosely affiliated with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Yesterday I went to Tisbury Town Hall, where I obtained and filled out my absentee ballot.

Below the fold: a few observations on my disucssion with the town clerk(s) and small-town Americana. Read More

Incredible Victory

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Monday October 11, 2004 · 10:45 AM PDT

2004/10/11 · 10:45

This weekend, while procrastinating when I should have been working on that new novel, I read Incredible Victory by Walter Lord, about the Battle of Midway. I'm not much of a military historian, so if you are such a person please forgive any details I may have gotten wrong in the following. I'm sure I have the gist of it correct.

Of course there are any number of astonishing vignettes in this book as you would expect in a story about such an astonishing battle (in which an outnumbered force largely comprising green recruits defeated a much larger, combat-experienced force that had much better equipment). But there was one little vignette that especially struck me in the light of all the current mess into which Bush has put us. Read More

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