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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT
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This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:13 PM EDT
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When Enron melted down, many attributed it to dishonesty, but I and many others saw it as the inevitable consequence of a financial and accounting system that was still rooted in the tangibles of an industrial . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST
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Over and over again, in this election season, I hear the presidential primary and presidential campaigns reduced to the cult of personality. Will McCain keep us in Iraq? Will Hillary be business . . .
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March 06, 2008 12:58 AM EST
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I received an email today with this dispatch from the ILWU:
ILWU Dockers to stop work on May *
*Day in West Coast ports, to express their opposition to the war in Iraq *
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*In a resolution . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST
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DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST
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Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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February 25, 2008 03:29 PM EST
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Having recently put my endorsement behind Larry Lessig 's run for the House (still in the Draft Lessig stage), let me say that I am adamantly repelled by another run by Ralph Nader. I don't . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:09 PM EST
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Larry Lessig is considering a run for Congress in California, and I want him to run.
And so do a lot of people, including many far from his Stanford home.
He's got a Facebook group. . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST
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Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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October 25, 2007 02:56 AM EDT
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I don't know if you saw CSI:NY last night , but it was a total travesty of information law. The episode portrayed a series of Second Life players involved in a series of assassinations, which CBS . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT
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In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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October 20, 2007 04:47 PM EDT
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Yesterday at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter books, is gay.
Entertainment Weekly reports :
Responding to . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT
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Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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October 13, 2007 08:01 PM EDT
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The language is all there in Gay City News, if you have eyes to read it, but for most of the GLBT community, nothing but the exclusion of transgendered protections from Barney Frank's version of the . . .
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October 06, 2007 02:43 AM EDT
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The NYTimes reports that the Internet has been completely cut in Burma (Myanmar).
I remember about 15 years ago, when I was one of three engineers running the UNC/Chapel Hill backbone and drop . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:43 PM EDT
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For me, the drain started with two boilerplate email invites I got from CC Chapman, a co-conspirator in social media. CC often has his finger on cool new things online, so I immediately clicked . . .
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT
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Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . .
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July 30, 2007 08:56 PM EDT
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As we read that Amnesty International and the Catholic Church are feuding over the issue of supporting abortions for women subject to rape and incest, a friend of mine in Oregon sent out this quote and . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT
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The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:17 PM EDT
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An article in Salon this week examines the gay community in MMOs, including the issue of gay marriage in virtual gaming space in Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, WOW and other games.
My name is . . .
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