I'll never forget the faces of my fellow commuters on the morning after election day, 2004. The sense of disappointment and grief was palpable; it was as if every one of them had a friend who had just died ( Read more... )

If there's one group of potential voters that I feel it's important to address, it's the young folks... those of you between 18 and 25. Your group votes in pretty low numbers, it's true. I didn't start voting regularly until after 25 myself, so I'm not pointing any fingers. But here's the thing: If you're under 25, you matter as much as anyone else ( Read more... )

What is it that stops us from doing evil things? In most people who have a normally developed conscience, it's the desire to avoid harming our fellow man ( Read more... )

This is a busy Friday with little time to write an entry, so I thought I'd link to two blog entries about the past week's events that I believe everyone should read:

The usually good Glenn Greenwald is brilliant this time: Mark Foley and the Unmasked Republican Party.

After all, even now that this conduct has been exposed, their instinct -- all ( Read more... )

While I haven't lost interest in the topic I covered in my previous two entries, events in the larger world are looming today, and as they also have much to do with the idea of narcissism in action, I thought I should talk about them here ( Read more... )

I'm just going to quickly and quietly say that the refugees in New Orleans are human trash who don't deserve to live.This quote from an LJ user made on September 4, 2005 may be from an especially heartless individual. But I suspect that more than a few people agreed with him, especially at the highest levels of the US government, where it probably ( Read more... )

Here you go ( Read more... )

Despite the ongoing struggle I'm having against one of that class of viruses that has probably dogged mankind since the days when we were first learning to hit rocks together (and still resists the best efforts of modern science), I've had a couple of good laughs this morning, the first from this: He's the Decider, koo koo kachoo (Damn, I almost ( Read more... )

Because between wishing death on foreign heads of state, and crying that Europe is comitting racial suicide, he's sounding a lot like one.

(Apparently Jean-Paul Sartre, with his gloomy godless existentialism, is to blame for all of this. Yet another reason for me to like Sartre!)

While the revelation that our wonderful administration has authorized illegal spying in the US isn't terribly surprising, the president's public attitude about it certainly is... it's basically, "Yes, we did it and we will continue to do it ( Read more... )