"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

One of the Things

One of the things I'm working my way around to is endorsing John Kerry. It's important for me to do personally. Though the work I've been doing for the better part of six months has been more or less to his advantage, I've yet to formulate an explicit argument as to why I feel like he aught to be president.

So I'm working on that, outlandish style. It involves meditation, scotch, zen-like focus, listening to my iPod recording of events from the DNC, and reviewing my earmarked copy of John Dewy's The Public and it's Problems.

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The Slant is On

An organization called Media Tenor did a quantitative analysis of the party conventions, confirming with science what many of us were already saying with intuition1. The coverage was clearly slanted. No More Mister Nice Blog has the details.

1 By intuition, of course, I mean noticing the fact that Ed Gelespie, chairman of the Republican party, was given a prime slot to offer his, uhhh, "commentary" on the Democrats proceedings.

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Global Guerrillas

Global Guerrillas

Here's a blog by a very smart guy who's honestly trying to figure out what's actually going on with the emerging global struggle with decentralized extra-national terrorist organizations. This is the kind of analysis you can bet the White House doesn't want you to pay any attention to, because it reveals their strategies for both attack and defence for the horrifically costly dumb shows that they are.

It's also scary as fuck. Not in the fearmongering way, but in the "holy shit, we are so fucked" kind of way. Fourth-generation warfare, it's asserted, is won in the moral sphere. The implications of that are most distressing.

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MfA Gear

Thanks to our strong-standing comrades at Ropeadope records, my little organization now has an online unstore with all our gear ready to be fedexed to you in return for your donation. It's like the PBS tote-bag concept, but cooler.

For anyone who's wanted to pick up one of our much-coveted "Voters Make Better Lovers" t-shirt, this is your big chance.

If you want to be super-cool, you'll help us get the word out on this thing too. Handy url alias: www.musicforamerica.org/unstore

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