amen
09:36 PM
"Every major milestone in American history has been won after a major protracted and partisan battle. Go back to the Emancipation Proclamation, the 19th Amendment, the New Deal, Medicare, Social Security, the Voting Rights Act. These were big partisan battles -- one of them involved a civil war. And so the idea that somehow we can all come to the middle and do what? Free half the slaves? Or free them from 12 to five? These are major issues that people have very definite differences on."
"Even the despised public option has 70 percent behind it...The idea that we are in a mushy middle is simply a media invention."
-Arianna Huffington on ABC's This Week
February 11, 2010
no lie
12:10 AM
Watch out. Glitch may become huge.
p.s. For real: Stewart Butterfield wrote me a naze.net fan e-mail in 1999.
February 10, 2010
Gizmodos comment system and why it is better
11:53 PM
Basically, the recipe for rewarding wisdom and goodness on the net and icing the trolls.
It's a good thing.
-via the zen master powazek
February 08, 2010
men i admire: tom mccall
09:40 PM
I just saw a brief documentary on the only state-sponsored rock festival in U.S. history. It was Governor Tom McCall's response to an explosive political atmosphere in which the American Legion was scheduled to hold a national convention in downtown Portland, blocks away from intense protests against the Vietnam War at Portland State University.
I look at McCall's profound wisdom and pragmatism and think: that's what it means to be an Oregonian.
