"We have to publicize our vision of what the movie should have portrayed. We have to make it clear, for example, that the proper response to Saruman and the Orcs was for Gandalf and his followers to go to the negotiating table, not the battlefield. And if only the Middle Earth had a United Nations and a World Court, no unilateral war against Mordor would ever have been waged.:
A minor correction, speaking from a CA district near Yee's - Yee is a no-name nationally, sure, but that doesn't mean that he can't do bad-for-your-freedom stuff that sets a precedent. He got a column into the San Francisco Chronicle recently, hyping his bill and peddling the same disgusting "Videogames turn children into copycat killers!" tripe that's been going on for years. Bloody idiots. The paper published a couple of follow-ups - one gamer defending the right to imagine, and one sort of half-and-half agreeing with Yee in principle, but waffling about the bill. Bloody idiots. I thought we were supposed to be the smart area of the country here, but apparently we've got the same problem finding qualified officials as everyone else.
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/krugman_awl/
Paul Krugman's writing an economics textbook! I know I'm late on the news, but - woo! Go Paul! Paul, we love you!
But I'm not going to buy the Paul Krugman skate video. That'd be going a little far.
And it's bloody depressing. You barely have to start looking before you come up with people with positive evidence that they're all schmucks - the Administration, that is.
http://www.beanmag.com/index.php
http://www.awolbush.com/
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=time&words=Paul+Krugman
Good and bad at the same time that uniqueness is hard to come by - but would we know it when we saw it?
Is it too much to hope for one sentance's worth of profound thought per day ?
If it was real insight, would it slip away ? It happened to RSA, it could happen to little old me.
Thoughts.
Federal grants are offered for... research into the recreation potential of interplanetary space travel for the culturally disadvantaged.
