That’s what Kos thinks he may have woken up to while reading Drudge and Sullivan.
Category Archives: Public Service, Civics, Government, Activism
It’s 2003! Ever hear of redundancy and failover?
Saying my prayers for those affected by power outage. We have not been hit here in Philly. To have a single point of failure effect so many people is unacceptable and frightening.
Comfortable with Authority
ajc.com: Don O’Briant: Millennials: The Next Generation. Flies in the face of what many think.
Nickel and Dimed
In my off time I’ve been reading “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. I highly recommend it. Speaking from experience – it is a clear look into reality for the forgotten America – the working poor. Ehrenreich, by jumping in the trenches with those that actually make this country work has written a highly readable book. Not facts and figures, but stories of daily struggle thru the eyes of an observer. The kind of stories that are lost in the daily din.
Are there any related weblogs people would recommend? I’m not talking about hard-core rant sites. I’m talking about sites that are as focused as this book is on the daily struggle, with additional tips on how to not only survive it, but overcome it.
Philly Political Opinion Weblogs
These Philadelphia based webloggers are some of the very best and deserve your attention:
Speaking of weblogs…
Livejournal users are taking over the Technorati Top 100.
Contrast that to what Shelley finds surfing the weblogs.com list.
Prediction: AOL bloggers will own lists that rely solely on linkage to determine popularity soon.
Update 7/24/2003: Looks like LiveJournal users are now all over weblogs.com!
Happy Fourth of July!
In Philadelphia it is an especially special day with the opening of The National Constitution Center. More from philly.com.
During the next couple of weeks I’m going to take a personal trip to it to organize a get together with some of my friends.
Today, while celebrating the freedom so many have fought and sacrificed for, it is important to reflect that across the world people are not afforded the anywhere near the same.
80 school children abducted!
Why isn’t this getting more coverage? Garret has the details.
A great new weblog
A few months ago I complained that there were no weblogs that gave you political points of view across the spectrum. Almost all weblogs have a bias to the left, right, or somewhere in between, and rarely, with a few notable exceptions, would these sites cross link or cross discuss.
WatchBlog is the site I’ve been waiting for. It’s a project I hope to see a success.
“a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels”…
Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy in The Guardian: Fast Forward Into Trouble: “Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan’s first crime wave – murder, fraud, drug offences.”
Volunteering
The USA Freedom Corps site has a few resources to make it easy to find a volunteering situation that suits your skills. The site utilizes the Network for Good volunteerism search engine.