Ted Ernst will love this. “I had a truly exhilarating experience last night. The beautiful Juliette Powell and I biked over to Union Square and connected up with roughly 5000 bicyclists for tour of the city.”
Archives for August 2004
August 25, 2004
Carnival
For anyone who wonders what it’s like to go to a large rock and roll festival these days – not a corporate branded affair, but a middle-of-nowhere major-committment visionquest TREK, you could do a lot worse than to spend half an hour at: http://www.sover.net/~hackmohr/captive.htm This is a day-by-day journal by a local resident of Coventry, […]
August 16, 2004
What’s Wrong With Conservatism
An very important essay by Phil E. Agre. Link and distribute far and wide. Excerpt: Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, […]
August 9, 2004
Problems with the free market
An article on neo-liberalism by Henry Giroux. He says: “Free market fundamentalism rather than democratic idealism is now the driving force of economics and politics in most of the world, and it is a market ideology driven not just by profits but by an ability to reproduce itself…. Wedded to the belief that the market […]