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laxil? this
would make a great story, but the name of the drug connotes "relax" to me.
What about "Pepicil" or something with, um, more pep?
7:51:21 PM 
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peacebloggers: Doc is
taking flak from the warbloggers:
A couple months ago a columnist in the National Review wondered where the
pacifist voices had all gone, and attributed their silence to the bankruptcy
of their principles. But he was wrong about that. They're just scared. Not
many of them have the courage of Mohandas
Ghandi or Martin Luther
King, nor the willingness to risk exposing their families to the often
unpleasant consequences of pacifist speech. (Although maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
they're just listening
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But we could use some peace bloggers. Other than Hanan Cohen, I don't
know any; and I don't have the urge to become one, because I'd quickly become
nothing else. 
I've wondered a lot about this myself, but hadn't really thought of this
angle. Bloggers do seem to be more pro-war (which Doc pointedly calls "pro-death,"
which is accurate, but risks escalating the rhetoric perhaps to an unproductive
level), more conservative, pro-markets, pro-Bush, etc. But is that because
people who have other values are simply scared to express them? The vehemence
of the response to Cynthia McKinney's call for an investigation into 9-11
would probably give pause to anyone who agrees with her, but that's not the
same issue as a pro-peace agenda. 5:47:24 PM
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moral relativism: Some members of the Bush Adminisitration
are claiming it had nothing to do with the failed coup in Venezuela
which attempted to replace the popular, democratically elected leader with
a businessman more friendly with corporate interests. And it makes this
claim even though it met with those responsible for the coup only days before
it took place, and even though it was the only nation in this hemisphere
to welcome the coup. So here's the deal: As far as the Bush administration
is concerned, democracy is a value only insofar that it produces outcomes
the Bush administration likes. Did the Bushies do anything underhanded or
dishonest or dispicable in Florida in the "Election" 2000 debacle?
What the heck do you think? If you're not sure, check out Greg Palast 's book:
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. (I don't have time to look at
them now, but here are the
Daypop citations for the above article. It's number one right now.
Should be interesting.) 5:46:55 PM
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