Bush and his cabinet = Nero & his court.

Scripting News

I’ve spent most of today moving stuff from my house to the third dumpster. If the stuff in the house was that valuless, in a sense I was living in a dumpster. Most of the stuff I’m throwing away now, on shelves, in he house, had not been touched in years.

How real, how unmaterialistic, how fucking wasteful.

It’s not valuable to him, so he throws it in a dumpster? It may be valuable to Goodwill, they can sell it at low cost to people who can use it and take the proceeds to hire people who need jobs and training.

Syndicate your stuff, Dave!

Nuclear Stockpiles

Israel neither acknowledges nor denies that it has nuclear weapons. Israel is generally regarded as a de facto nuclear weapon state.

It seems to me that something has to be done about Israel’s nukes too, otherwise they will keep blackmailing us into defending them. The fact that Israel has nukes destabilizes the reigon. It makes us look like hypocrites for going after Iraq. It hurts our credibility with Arab states and Arab people. It makes it harder for Arab states to take a moderate line with Israel. It is a big problem, and its one that is difficult to talk about as long as the polite fiction continues.

I have been one of those people who, in lamenting the left’s dismal inablity to grasp the public imagination the way some Right-wing gassbag can, puts it down to an inbred willingless among liberals to frame the world in black and white.

I’m a fool for thinking so, of course. The slogan “no war for oil,” and others like it now, and in the past, show that no such bloodline is evident.

It isn’t heartening, for a variety of reasons. Dissenting voices are rising in the country, but the debate is still framed in Bush’s terms. Whats more, the anti-war movement doesn’t really speak for me and I don’t think I want to throw in with their lot for the sake of expedience.

Salon.com
Rumor has it that Salon won’t be long for this world. My hope is that the end, when it comes, is a quick one. I still have memories of Spy magazine, a rotting corpse, risen briefly from the dead, filled with ads for second rate sexual aids and third rate liquor, devoid of the wit and humor that once defined it.

Of course, I hope the end doesn’t come, and not because I still hold some worthless stock in the company. Salon is in many ways, a shadow of its former self, but it is still a great publication. If it goes under, I’ll have to go back to reading paper magazines.

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Now things are getting interesting! The move away from document centric computing picks up speed, and some companies are still tying their shoelaces.