Category Archives: Politics

Global Collapse linkpiece [recommended reading]

By Daniel | Published: January 24, 2010
Unfortunately this is a serious post. Jan Lundberg on a post-petroleum future: The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other food stores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot from China will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoarding and uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For [...]
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I’m Mental for Sarah Palin!

By Daniel | Published: November 23, 2009
So…. it turns out that Palin’s supporters are borderline mentally retarded. I feel sorry for the person who did these interviews:
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Obama on Internet Freedom

By Daniel | Published: November 16, 2009
Recent remarks by President Obama on Internet freedom at a Townhall in China: AMBASSADOR HUNTSMAN: That’s right. And not surprisingly, “in a country with 350 million Internet users and 60 million bloggers, do you know of the firewall?” And second, “should we be able to use Twitter freely” — is the question. PRESIDENT OBAMA: [...]
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The baby moment [health care]

By Daniel | Published: November 7, 2009
Haven’t seen it? via Daily Kos
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The drive to astroturf the parks of San Francisco

By Daniel | Published: September 26, 2009
Sad times for grass in SF: The bigger picture here is about the legacy we want to leave to current and future generations of San Francisco youth and residents. We are a city proud of our leadership on environmental issues and our rich heritage of natural beauty in an urban setting. Do we really want to [...]
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Myths and falsehoods about health care reform [recommended reading]

By Daniel | Published: August 21, 2009
Myths and falsehoods about health care reform | Media Matters for America.
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Daniel Ellsberg: “America has been asleep at the atomic wheel for 64 years” (recommended reading)

By Daniel | Published: August 20, 2009
Arms control is an important issue for me, not just because I scared myself shitless from nanotechnology science fiction during college, but because I also managed to get a ‘biological and chemical arms control’ course under my belt at Vassar . Our worldly relationships as nation units have built up a great deal of terrible [...]
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43 Alumni – The Alumni Association of GWbush

By Daniel | Published: August 16, 2009
Been hanging out on the web, wishing I could call myself a member of 43alumni. Sadly, I cannot. It’s magical to me that people would want to re-associate themselves with the worst presidency ever.
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Iran, Revolution, Sexuality

By Daniel | Published: July 15, 2009
via rosa_roshan On the surface, the revolution of 79 and now the ‘Green Revolution’ are governance-based uprisings. Look a little deeper, and we see previously veiled women removing their veils for the first time, older women taking an active role in marches, and women gathering in coffee shops, bars, and public spaces to discuss politics where [...]
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“They are being crushed into silence, but they won’t be silent forever” [#iranelection]

By Daniel | Published: June 14, 2009
…we will never forget this event. People will not give up. They are being crushed into silence, but they won’t be silent forever. They have new ways to connect to one another. They, the regime, can block Facebook today but they can’t do it forever. Something has changed in this country, people have been cheated [...]
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