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June 17th, 2004
Green Party, Voting Machine Security

President Nader or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DREs

President Nader
or
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DREs
Introduction
While not an exhaustive treatment, the point of this writing is to explain how a person or group of people with little knowledge of the inside workings of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines could influence the outcome of the 2004 President Election. This writing is […]

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June 11th, 2004
Guest Blogging

The Enron Tapes

I’ve been posting about the Enron Tapes over on Seeing The Forest.

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June 11th, 2004
Green Party, Progressive Issues

More lunancies from Iraq

The news from Iraq gets ever more bizarre… and while nothing matches the Chalabi/Iran connection, the following two items demonstrate the Bizarro mirror-world nature of events in Iraq.
If the fact that the U.S. Government is paying $1.50/gallon for gas in neighboring countries (which not incidentally keeps a fleet of 4,200! tank trucks constantly on the […]

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June 10th, 2004
Green Party, Death of the Planet

Slow motion genocide…

[We’re all being turned into the modern day equivalent of the average German citizen in Nazi Germany by the collective indifference of our governing elite. Our collective shame will be irredeemable. -Thomas]
From the Get Vegan weblog:
This echoes the recent findings of UNEP that current trends point to the extinction of bonobo, gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees […]

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June 9th, 2004
Queer

History of the Bi-Angles

[The document below was created at my request, after I discovered that no record of the origin of the bi-angles existed anywhere on the web. -Thomas]
History of the Bi-Angles
Liz Nania
In 1983 I was an active member of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. When
Lucy Friedland and I heard about the upcoming March on Washington for
Lesbian and […]

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June 9th, 2004
Queer

San Francisco Chronicle article on UU-Poly Movement

BAY AREA
Committed to marriage for the masses
Polyamorists say they relate honestly to multiple partners
- Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/20/BAGIG67LNQ1.DTL&type=printable
Unitarians from Boston to Berkeley have opened another front in the liberal crusade to expand the definition of marriage and family in America.
It’s the new polygamy, and according to the Unitarian Universalists […]

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June 8th, 2004
Green Party

Jane A. Yokoyama, 1947-2004

Jane A. Yokoyama, 1947-2004
by Scott Kennedy
Flags in the City of Santa Cruz are lowered to half mast June 2 and 3 by Mayor Scott Kennedy in memory of former Mayor Jane A. Yokoyama who died on May 11, 2004.
According to a brief obituary in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on May 29, 2004, “Jane Yokoyama […]

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June 6th, 2004
Green Party

LA Weekly Interview with Bishop Stephan Hoeller from 1999

[Good stuff. -Thomas]
Spirituality L.A.
To Know God
A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller
by Brendan Mullen
[…]
I first encountered Hoeller after a disastrous attempt at romance, when a stranger said she thought I needed professional counseling. I was led not to a therapist, but to a teacher-mystic who laid out the skinny on various ancient spiritual […]

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June 5th, 2004
Guest Blogging

Enron

I’ve been posting quite extensively about The Enron Tapes and my experience and analysis of them, over on Seeing The Forest. The “other” weblog I write for. If you’re curious, take a peek there.

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June 4th, 2004
War

Update on the status of women in Iraq: not good.

Iraqi journalist Bushra Juhi has a depressing account of the position of women in post-Saddam Iraq…
“For a woman reporter in Iraq, a hair out of place can cause an uproar.”
“Perhaps worse than the asphyxiating dress code is to not be acknowledged as a professional, a reporter, a human being.”
No kidding. Apparently, this is worst […]

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June 4th, 2004
Work

Another blast from the past…

Infoworld quoted me once… boy, was that company a learning experience. I only hope I get to take advantage of what I learned at some point in the future.

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June 4th, 2004
Work

A Blast From the dot.com past…

I was profiled in Entrepreneur magazine once… and Network Appliance issued a press release with my name in it. :)

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June 4th, 2004
War

Being a geek hazardous to your health?

Apparently, I missed this angle on plans by the Selective Service agency to extend the age at which registration is mandatory to age 34 (along with adding women to the mix) — they want to require folks to tell them whether than have skills that are particularly in demand, said skills being linguistic facility in […]

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June 2nd, 2004
Tidbits

$6 billion a year in ringtones…

[And the music industry is crying about declining sales? -Thomas]
Java-based smart cards are “probably the most strategic asset Sun has,” Schwartz said. The cards, used in mobile telephones worldwide to authenticate users, are the reason $6 billion is being spent on selling ring tones each year, while nothing is spent selling digital music, [Jonathan Schwartz, […]

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