BurningbirdJonathon writes: Dave adds: �I just hope we�re up to this challenge. With the right leadership, I�m sure we could be. I�m not at all confident we have the right leadership.” We don�t have the right leadership. To put it bluntly, we�re fucked. Unless the anti-war/peace movement can come up with something more sophisticated and useful […]
Mark posted a list of ‘peaceblogs’ at his weblog. This most likely follows from Doc Searls and his “where are all the peaceblogs” earlier in the month. What Mark doesn’t realize, and Doc didn’t realize, is that all of us who are not for the war are for peace. Everyone of us is a peaceblog. It’s just […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the day today talking about the war in Iraq and possible solutions, about protests and voices. But behind all of this has been the disappointment of hearing people chastise the peace movement — dismissive statements about self-indulgent moralizing. Once, not long ago, before the invasion of Iraq, I wrote that […]
D responded quickly to my little nudgeback earlier. And she’s sticking by her guns: But, dang it, this time I am not wrong. Good on you, Dorothea. I like people who stand their ground. I rarely do so it’s very refreshing for me to see it in others. However, I have to respectfully disagree with your assessment that software can […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve decided to re-enable comments for the weblog. Too quiet. At least the comment spams are a variation on the other email spam I get, and warblog baiting could become a favorite game of mine. As for comments and their impact on writing and what we write – I found […]