Yearly Archives: 2003

It’s your patriotic duty: 19/11 – 21/11.

DeanSpace is an open development community providing web-tools, support, and advice to Howard Dean’s supporters. The goal is to better interlink existing web activism, bring new citizen participants into the political process, and assist individuals to network and organize for taking action in Howard Dean’s presidential campaign.According to some, this could be another sign of… Read More: DeanSpace »

A test of Radio’s new trackback feature (beta). Does auto-discovery work? Yes. On MT-powered sites at least. Source: Jake’s Radio ‘Blog, Radio Userland, Moveable Type

Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California, have set out to coin a new word, a new “gay”. Like gay, it should be a noun hijacked from an adjective, with its original meaning changed but not too much. Like gay, it should be catchy: a potentially prolific meme. Like gay, it should be positive,… Read More: Are you a bright? »

Tell Congress to do its job President Bush justified invading Iraq by claiming that their “weapons of mass destruction” posed an imminent threat. The evidence presented to back up this claim is looking increasingly dubious, and Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has introduced legislation to create an independent commission to investigate the matter. I’ve joined over… Read More: The great misleader – the ‘evidence’ for WMDs »

Mark Morford considers a Kucinich Presidency: Is it really all that radical? Is it really all that extreme to try and imagine a truly connected national leadership that promotes international cooperation and spiritual openness and the sacredness of the environment and a genuinely holistic worldview, one who actually attempts to connect with and listen to… Read More: Your Vegan Holistic President »

Bonjour from the home of the free!

Ben Fritz argues that as the invasion continues, and debates rage about tactics and policies, some politicians and pundits have been using extreme rhetoric that serves only to shut down open discussion, rather than encourage it. The New York Post’s Ralph Peters, for instance, …has referred to the New Yorker as “a minor magazine loosely… Read More: Extreme rhetoric makes for bad debate »

From an article by George Lakoff. (Discuss it here.) The basic idea of a just war uses the Nation As Person metaphor plus two narratives that have the structure of classical fairy tales: The Self Defense Story and The Rescue Story. Millions of people around the world can see that the metaphors and fairy tales don’t fit… Read More: War as metaphor »

Dear Mr Wicks, I recently read[1] that the US, not being party to the 1997 anti-personnel mine convention, is planning to deploy landmines as part of their military “strategy” in Iraq. I would like to know what the UK government is doing about this, as you are required to uphold the provisions of the treaty.… Read More: An open letter to my MP, Malcolm Wicks (Lab, Croydon… »