Archive for September 2006
The Inside Story of Democrat Demise?
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 30, 2006
Just read an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled “The Inside Agitator.” The story is about how Howard Dean, the chaiman of the Democratic National Committee, is working to decentralize the concentrated power structure of the Democratic Party. The article describes the powerful forces inside the party agitating against Dean in this effort [...]
Green-Libertarian: It’s Already Happening!
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 28, 2006
My last two blog postings discuss the pathetic Democrats and the soon-to-be-loser Republicans. Each of those postings referred to a specific prediction I am making about each of those parties. This posting finishes up with my political predictions by addressing the Far Left Meets Far Right prediction.
Now, on pages 43-48 of my essay Long Tail [...]
Pathetic Democrats
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 27, 2006
I was listening to NPR yesterday morning. The show was going on about the midterm elections, how the Democrats were doing, and what their “strategy” was for gaining seats in Congress. The discussion came around to the absence of any sort of positive or affirmative policy or stance or position coming from the Democrats.
This is [...]
Republicans in Decline
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 27, 2006
With the 2006 midterm elections coming up a little over a month from now, even the Red Wall Street Journal says the Republicans seem to be in decline. Well, it’s too soon to tell. But, you know, I did predict that Americans would “throw the bums out” by the end of Mr. Bush’s second term. [...]
What I Just Did
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 27, 2006
I just came in after an hour of chopping wood. Pretty boring, right? Like you should care or something.
But perhaps I’m not your typical wood chopper. For example, I did this wood chopping at roughly solar noon, in the full sun, shirtless. I could have worn a shirt, but that would have defeated one of [...]
9/11 Wrapup: Duck! and Gather
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 25, 2006
The first entry of this 9/11 Wrapup trilogy reasoned that 9/11 was and is ambiguous (ie. between the set of Conventional explanations, and set of Conspiracy explanations). The second concluded that 9/11 was and is universally interesting. As I mentioned in the last entry, the normal human brain seems more less incapable of resting peacefully [...]
9/11 Wrapup: Universal Interest
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 25, 2006
Whatever the case with 9/11, that event seems to be of near universal, deep interest. I suspect the reason for that is that the event reminded almost all of us of our fragile mortality.
First, the 3000 victims could not be defined or limited by nationality, ethnicity, political ideology, gender, age, religion, sexual preference, or [...]
9/11 Wrapup: Introduction
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 25, 2006
Well, it’s time I let go of the ambiguity and, perhaps, unknowability, of 9/11. I recently finished a three-day Fall solstice fast. Usually, during these multi-day fasts, my mind is clear and demeanor quite calm. Yet this time, my conversations were animated, and my dreams were troubled and cyclical. All of this disturbance concerned the [...]
Why Can’t This Nation Have Human Leaders Like This?
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 25, 2006
Read this article on what Pakistani President Musharraf said in his memoir: Musharraf saw fighting US as suicidal. Basically, he said that, in the wake of 9/11, it would have been suicidal for Pakistan to choose to fight the US. So instead, he flipped Pakistan 180 degrees with respect to Islamic radicalism.
Now read this article [...]
It’s not a real site until the first flame
Posted by: duckandgather on: September 25, 2006
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Nearly three years to the day I started this blog, it has finally crossed the chasm. Let’s look at a little history of this blog:
12/10/03: I posted my first entry.
11/11/04: I posted my first “blog-like” entry.
10/10/05: I migrated this blog to WordPress.
10/20/05: This blog received its first ever comment (from AndI).
01/06/06: I noted that the [...]
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