"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Drank Liberally

"He's paying for it now."

Rudy's is always a good time. Met:

  • Lindsay Beyerstein, who's shorter in real life that her blog makes her seem
  • Some High-Steel workers; scabs, but still good men from Michigan (no links)
  • A couple Ivy League girlfriends (one, two)
  • Another nice lady from Montreal with a cute lower-lip who I think I was conversationally cruel to, on a drunken roll about the inevitable proliferation of nuclear weapons and a people's right to slaughter itself or something

Franz has a plan to seize total power through college football. I think it can work. He's become quite the ladies man too. Taking a walk aroud the block for a quick smoke with him and the Ivy Leaguers I tripped over a tree planter, fell on my butt in the street, then decided to just roll over backwards and stand up like I learned to do in ETW, rolled my head right through a puddle. Fun.

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Hack The Vote

Online activists are innefectual at affecting convenional wisdom without institutional hooks. This is clearly true.

Those hooks are not going to be developed in time to meaningfully impact the 2006 elections. It's time to start looking at what will actually make a big difference for real hacktivists.

For these and other reasons I don't have time to explain right now, I've come to the conclusion that some tech-savvy activists should hack the vote in 2006 as an act of civil disobedience to force meaningful reform of the electoral system. It seems to me that this is the best possible use resources.

Gut reactions?

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Hack The Vote

Online activists are innefectual at affecting convenional wisdom without institutional hooks. This is clearly true.

Those hooks are not going to be developed in time to meaningfully impact the 2006 elections. It's time to start looking at what will actually make a big difference for real hacktivists.

For these and other reasons I don't have time to explain right now, I've come to the conclusion that some tech-savvy activists should hack the vote in 2006 as an act of civil disobedience to force meaningful reform of the electoral system. It seems to me that this is the best possible use resources.

Gut reactions?

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Clarence ScAlito Bork

NYT Editorial sums it up.

I don't know what will happen with this nomination. I'm pessimistic that Senate Democrats will have the will to fillibuster. (UPDATE: maybe I'm wrong?) The media's behavior (particularly the 24 cable news circuit) has been infantilizing. Senate Republicans are much less rattled than their counterparts in the House-- who are struggling to find their new Cappo after Boss Delay was forced to step down after being criminially indicted -- and I think they'll stick together.

We shall see.

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