Iran is voting right now. I for one hope for Mousavi and reforms and a more open attitude towards the western world than what we have seen in the latest years. Cross fingers!

July 1st, the nationally (in Denmark) well-known, controversial and provocative right-wing politician Mogens Glistrup died. More here. He was an extreme liberalist in some ways, very conservative in other ways, and a racist. He established Progress Party in 1972, which later died, but not until it spawned the nationalist Danish People's Party, ( Read more... )

I'm an open source kinda gal. While I do understand that creative people need to be respected and paid for their work, I'm very wary of the way their rights are handled by the people making money of their work, such as publishers and recording companies. Management of DRM is an issue for me and I definitely don't like the way *some* people try to ( Read more... )

Glad to see someone speaking out against the Bush administration - and it's funny too!

C.B. Shapiro, Angry Liberal Guy rantQuote: "Sure, at first I felt guilty -- what right do I have as a patriotic American to be angry? Or liberal? Oh, I tried to repress the ‘angry thing,’ I tried -- if I was asked, I claimed I was a ‘peeved moderate.’ Or a ‘ ( Read more... )