dear solipsists, relativists, and other wheelspinners

Life is too short to spend playing linguistic games with you. My fondness or respect for you will not change this: you use rhetoric to avoid helping others. Call the following facts or assumptions as you please, but these are my fundamental principles:
1. Good people do not want more for themselves than they want for [...]

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Dear Reader, I am not a SFWAn

Given SFWA’s decision to continue the “e-piracy committee” with the same individuals operating under a new charter, I would like to assure all readers that I do not think you are the enemy. I love libraries and anyone who says, “Here, this is great, read it!”
P.S. For more information, there’s a good summary here.
P.P.S. And [...]

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What’s your drought score?

People aren’t talking about drought much (yet), maybe because it’s too scary, maybe because two of the most basic principles of business are that there’s more profit in treating problems than in preventing them, and the greater the problem, the greater the profit.
You can find your home’s drought score here. Tucson is at 115, extreme [...]

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the politicians who understand the problem

via :
Yes, the people in that ad are awfully white, but that’s New Hampshire for you. And Edwards does have a problem: people who want a black or a woman president are content to have more conservative candidates.
Mind you, I don’t think Edwards goes far enough. My heart is still here:

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lantern of liberty: Harriet Tubman

Here’s a picture of a mural: Lantern of Liberty - Harriet Tubman. I love its simplicity: one person in the dark, holding a lantern high for others.

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Where did Jesus say you can kill people for a purpose?

“Where did Jesus say you can kill people for a purpose?” Antonio Espera, a U.S. sergeant in Iraq
I’m going through a bit of crisis of purpose now, which isn’t exactly new, but is frustrating. I may leave LiveJournal soon. I may leave the internet soon. The world needs changing, and I don’t know how to [...]

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the mobiity myth

Fans of capitalism love to say that capitalist class structures are fluid. That’s not so true, especially at the top of the pyramid: (i) those who slip out of the top quintile (say) are typically at the bottom of that category, and (ii) much of the movement up and down represents fluctuations around a fairly [...]

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Doctors and drug reps

This NY Times article never mentions Libertarians, but it tells how their dream of health care would work for doctors and drug representatives: Dr. Drug Rep. Alas, it’s how the US system works today.

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update: NAFTA

From Was Ross Perot Right?:
Since NAFTA passed, Mexican wages have plummeted increasing illegal immigration pressure at the southern border. Meanwhile, American wages have stagnated, and a million American jobs have been eliminate. That says nothing about the environmental degradation that NAFTA helped accelerate.

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bye, bye, facebook

I’ve deactivated my facebook account.

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