April 16, 2007 – 01:11 pm
From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]
November 17, 2006 – 12:49 pm
From Salon’s A man who hated government: “For right-of-center American libertarians, Milton Friedman was a powerful leader. For left-of-center American liberals, Milton Friedman was an enlightened adversary, and one whose view is now ascendant. We are all the stronger for his work. We will miss him.”
Take a look at the recently submitted Common Sense Budget Act of 2006, which has as its purpose, “To reallocate funds toward sensible priorities such as improved children’s education, increased children’s access to health care, expanded job training, and increased energy efficiency and conservation through a reduction of wasteful defense spending, and for other purposes.” [...]
February 21, 2006 – 12:57 pm
Over on Ain’t I A Woman, in a post entitled, “How do we hear certain voices?,” Dawn’s started an interesting discussion about the concept of minority shelving in bookstores — you know, the whole “Gay/Lesbian Literature” and “African-American Literature” thing (actually, the post is about the more abstract concept of “categorization,” but she gets [...]
December 21, 2005 – 01:07 pm
Our political leaders in Washington have done right by us little people once again. To reward all of us hard workers who take time out of our lives to acquire a higher lever of education than is required by the Republic, our wonderful leaders have decided, in a vote that passed the Senate 51-50, with [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in In A World Gone Mad
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Also tagged america, budget, bush, college, conservatism, culture_wars, democrats, education, intellectuals, policy, Politics, republicans, united_states, white_house
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December 2, 2005 – 06:21 pm
I’m three minutes and twenty-four seconds into the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album, E 1999 Eternal, and it is exactly what I want to hear when I put on hip-hop/rap. In the words of this white boy in Vermont, rap don’t get no better than this.
And the best part is that I didn’t even know it until [...]
December 15, 2004 – 03:52 pm
In 1984, a small group of people in Cupertino, California introduced the world to the computer for the rest of us. They told us that it was “a computer so personable it can practically shake hands.” They told us its name was Macintosh, and that it was just as powerful as all those other [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Apple
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Also tagged coding, creative_writing, equal_rights, evolution, gui, ilife, interfaces, linguistics, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism
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