Roll Call: Election Preview

"Roll Call's annual list of the 50 richest Members of Congress hasn't changed much since a year ago thanks in large part to the stagnant economy. "
11:20:41 PM  #  

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Between the Devil and . . .

I am not sure what it means that I am tracking both The War in Context and Charles Murtaugh at the same time.  I haven't read either in depth.  Both look as though they are worth a closer look.  Neither espouses a point of view I am necessarily comfortable with.  One thing about a weblog that gives me pause is that it forces me to do a certain amount of intellectual exploration in public.  I suppose that some might argue that this brings accountability to weblogs, at the cost of a certain amount of risk.
12:54:43 PM  #  

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Breathwork and open source. You might think one has nothing to do with the other. But someone on a mail list devoted to breathwork, that I subscribe to, has constructed an amazing argument, fantastic in its boldness, with elements of truth, but quite misleading. [Scripting News]

As Dave Winer says, worth posting and pondering.

12:04:54 PM  #  

M. Cartmill. "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." [Quotes of the Day] One quote my best friend, a science professor at a small college, would certainly appreciate.
11:23:28 AM  #  

To Africa With Family, to Meet Friends [New York Times: Travel] 

This story evokes the difficulty of recapturing the past and sustaining connections to people we knew in other parts of our lives.  At the same time, it suggests how how rewarding the attempt to recapture those connections can be, particularly if one is not simply trying to relive the past, but views the attempt as a new experience in its own right.  In the end, what was important was not the fact that the author could speak Wolof only in broken sentences and could recall only some names in the Senegelese village where he had lived, but that he tried.

11:20:36 AM  #  

In Maryland, Ehrlich Catching Up On Fundraising. "In a tally sure to further boost his confidence," Maryland gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich (R) "raised five times more money in recent weeks" than Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D) did, the Baltimore Sun reports. "Although Townsend's campaign for governor has raised more money overall - $6.8 million compared with Ehrlich's $4.5 million - what began this year as a chasm between their bank accounts appears to be closing quickly."... [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
1:44:22 AM  #  

The Curse of Factory Farms [New York Times: Opinion]

The Times points out what should be obvious: high concentrations of animals from narrow genetic stock, raised in close proximity under unhealthy conditions, are not good for the economy, the environment, or public health.  Ironically, so called conservatives are supportive of market-distorting farm subsidies that underwrite factory farms.  Clearly, we have learned nothing and forgotten nothing since the mad cow epidemic in Britain.

1:43:13 AM  #  

The New SCO: Lessons for Linux in Business. It turns out that SCO was bigger than Caldera after all. What can we learn from a former "Linux company" whose UNIX business is 90+% non-Linux? [Linux Journal]
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