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Meta-news brief #1: poor Seattle P-I 0

Meta-news brief #1: poor Seattle P-I

The home page of the Seattle P-I today is a sad reminder of the decline of a once great newspaper. The main headline today has a photo of a baby tiger, Cute alert! New...

State Rep. Roger Goodman to run againt Dave Reichert 1

State Rep. Roger Goodman to run againt Dave Reichert

The Kirkland Views reported on Jan 28, 2011 that State Rep. Roger Goodman (D) to Challenge Incumbent Dave Reichert (R) for U.S. Congress What Goodman says on his website seems generic: I am listening...

Drinking Liberally: get local, get real 3

Drinking Liberally: get local, get real

Monday night I attended the local Drinking Liberally meetup in Newport Hills, Bellevue. DNC super-delegate Sharon Mast made a good case that Democrats need to field more candidates for local positions, such as school...

Apple Nets $12 Billion in 6 Months, Workers Make $1/hr 1

Apple Nets $12 Billion in 6 Months, Workers Make $1/hr

The Guardian (UK) reported that Chinese workers making iPads and iPhones are being treated “inhumanely, like machines”. According to a guardian.co.uk article, interviewed workers revealed: â–  Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit...

Sunday Roundup 0

Sunday Roundup

I was wrong about the rightness of military action in Libya. Military action simply can’t remain defensive. Gaddafi’s son and three grandchildren were killed by a Nato strike. We are killing children. I get...

Second Life, Dexter Morph, and the Peace Movement 1

Second Life, Dexter Morph, and the Peace Movement

Second Life is a 3d virtual world in which players control virtual selves called “avatars.”     You can choose the gender and looks (body shape, hair, etc) of your avatar, and you can select the...