At the train station I was approached by an African American youth who implored me to sign a petition to allow the libertarian party on to the ballot in Illinois I’m afraid I went off on him.
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Illinois senator Dick Durbin has went over to the dark side, and needs to be removed. He’s no longer advocating for the people of Illinois, the people who voted for him, or for the party under who’s banner he ran for the senate. He’s advocating for the plutocracy, and the party who supports corporations. Fuck him, it’s not about the deficit, it’s about the safety net for people without jobs.
It’s about jobs, Dick.
Jobs.
Start looking for one, Dick.
(of course you can tell Dick what you think, here and here.)
Sometimes it takes a web comic to tell the truth: Spinnerette. Sometimes it takes a Usenet newsgroup quote:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
–John Rogers, on the blog Kung Fu Monkey, as quoted on rec.arts.sf.written by James Nicoll
I first came across Rand when I was a kid, she advertised in the back of magazines her closed-circuit televised seminars to men-the ads came across as a weird, creepy, and sexist back then. When the world was noticeably more sexist, one of the top songs in the country was “Music to Watch Girls By.” I’ve read some pretty aweful things in my life, but i could never make it through one off her books. She creeped me out back then, coming across as a scary cult leader. Turns out she was much, much scarier.
I had been using Plaxo as my online backup address book and contact manager. Then they sold themselves to Comcast today. I’ve spent months of my life on the phone with those idiots straightening out my parents account with them, until their contract ran out. Comcast’s craptacular billing and customer service is just part of their problem: lying is part part of their corporate culture. Not just to you and me, not just in ads, but to Congress. Screw them, they lie about service, they lie about blocking ports, they lie about your bill. I do not trust them with any of my data. If you use Plaxo, delte your account NOW, before Comcast has a chance to change the terms and conditions-right now Plaxo removes any and all traces or your data form their servers.
Obviously if you use Plaxo’s syncing tools, sync one last time. Then back up your data locally, and remove their syncing software. Then remove your Plaxo account-you can use this link to delete you account. (Thanks to Leo Laporte for the link!)
OH CRAP.
quickly, we need a replacement for de.licio.us, Flickr, and all the other things they’ve bought up…
