An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt

From the www.RadioInsideScoop.com update list… Dr. Young was a guest on their March 28th, 2005 show.
Universal Health Care?
Guest: Dr. Quentin Young, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital and National Coordinator of Physicians for National Health Program
According to Dr. Young: “It is stunning how little regard this president has for
human […]

Have you heard about the next planned “Survivor” show? See if Trump could
handle this one!
Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped into an
elementary school classroom for 6 weeks. Each businessperson will be
provided with a copy of his/her school district’s curriculum, and a class
of 28 students.
Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with
A.D.D., […]

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:01:21 -0500
From: “Owen Broadhurst”

Subject: [Needtoknow] Howie Hawkins Response to Scott McLarty’s “Ten
Urgent Questions for Greens”
To: needtoknow@green-rainbow.org
Scott,
These are good questions. But I don’t agree with your premise, which
infuses the first six questions as well as the introduction.
What the Greens did on 2004 DID […]

Hi all
Judging from the exchange on this list over the
‘decline’ of the GP during 2004 (which was really
a year of growth for some states and for DC), I
think a lot Greens are still drawing all the
wrong conclusions and lessons from last year’s
presidential campaign.
Both Cobb & Nader got a fraction of 1% of the
national vote in […]

Here’s Chris Schefler’s posting to the IETF HTTP Working Group elist, explaining why a header including the host name of the site being accessed needs to be passed by the http client.
“It is important to be able to determine which domain name was used in the URL in case a server answers to many domain […]

[The item below seems radical, until you realize that this the exact opposite is the current situation, and that if you turn this around and apply this to actions by homeless folk, this is exactly how they are treated. … if the well off had to put up with the presumptive justice that poor homeless […]

If you’re interested in hiring a Unix Sysadmin with ten years experience on a variety of platforms (HPUX, Solaris, multiple flavors of Linux and BSD, Windows [insert version here]), check out my resume at http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/resume/. I’m available for full and part-time work, contract or W-2, short or long term, preferably in the SF Bay Area, […]

From a list…
On May 14, 2005, at the “Maison Fuzier” in Mazamet, there will be
inaugurated a memorial museum dedicated to Occitan Catharism.
The Museum is coordinated by a scientific committee reuniting a number of
historians and archaeologists specializing in this area. The orientation of
the museum is to present a living, demystifying and respectful image of a
largely […]

I’m installing Mandrake 10.0 on our new in house hosting server. Fairly nice. PC architecture sucks though, damn. Beating my head against the wall on all sorts of stupid annoying stuff. Pretty near done now, just tuning. I really really like their update mechanism… man, has maintenance and administration come a long way from 1994!

When he wrote a column about the suckiness of corporate radio, I wrote him an email about KPIG… and he quoted me, and made KPIG #2 on his list of links to radio that doesn’t suck.
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KPIG in Freedom, CA (107.5). “Hippie hillbilly country-fried rock and superlative dirty blues,” says a reader. “An anachronism,” says […]

When you type SAGE Level 3 into Google, my resume appears at the top of the list. The actual page describing this doesn’t even rank (need to add this as a link to my resume).

Language Garden
Fascinating article on Orion Online about the writer’s encounter with an signing ape… raises serious questions about the nature of consciousness, and the division between “human” and “animal”. Not to mention our collective guilt as a species that is effectively commiting a crime even worse than genocide… “speciescide”, the deliberate extermination of an entire […]