politics Category
Powell’s Chief of Staff argues for impeachment
By: mindlace on: May 13,2007 In: politicsBrad DeLong is an economist I started reading when the NY Times put Krugman behind a paywall. He is erudite and a card-carrying member of the realist school of economics, you know that whacky version where you have to pay for the things you spend money on.
Anyway, he frames the debate well; you should read […]
post translational state modification
By: mindlace on: Apr 28,2007 In: interpersonal communication, me, politicsVika and I just got done watching Equilibrium, the movie that should’ve had the mindshare that the matrix stole.
I particularly appreciated the role of the protagonist; he was an inside man, raised and honed to be a tool of the machine. Most importantly, he commits atrocities on his way to understanding, and in the end all […]
Ok, so that’s not really the important part… My BFF Sean Stevens was paid $300 by a sub-contractor of Turner to magnetically attach LED pictures of a cartoon character at specific locations in Boston to promote a new movie. Two weeks after he first started hanging them, he was arrested for doing so because the […]
Everybody Wants a Rock to Wind a Piece of String Around
By: mindlace on: Jan 30,2007 In: interpersonal communication, politicsThe Generic Republic Universal Protocol (GRUP) is a set of behaviours that allow an individual to participate in the Naught Distributed Republic (0DR). It requires the participation in a number of communication media in order to gain voting capital. Voting capital may be ‘spent’ in Request For Action auctions. An RFA auction is like an […]
the change I wish to see in the world
By: mindlace on: Jun 2,2006 In: interpersonal communication, material, me, mind, politicsI would like to see the entire human population be able to ask about, discuss, and vote on things to do.
This implies several preconditions that the entire human population must have:
Adequate nutrition and freedom from toxins
A healty adult human of whole mind is the consequence of a host of material prerequisites. It comes as no surprise […]
I have been hooked by my Evolution of English project and so am burning the midnight oil. I’m a number of algae shy on my herbarium (due Tuesday) and I have to have a presentation on niche consruction for Wednesday. Gods, I wish school was always like this.
Oh yeah… and we’re fucked:
It is deeply saddening that our administration has chosen to torture people. If we are going to torture them, we could at least have the moral fortitude to just kill them when we’re done, rather than letting them live on in misery.
Even a cruel boy knows to kill the grasshopper once he’s done tearing off its legs.
Terror […]
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