In what should come as a suprise to asbolutely no-one, Miers has withdrawn her Supreme Court nomination. I wonder if they’ll hurry to pick another nominee before Rove goes to the slammer?
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Marjane Satrapi rules
Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles (cool blog and podcast) interviewed Marjane Satrapi author/illustrator of the brilliant, moving, informative, and all-around-wonderful book Persepolis. The book is about her childhood growing up in the middle of turbulent Iran in the 70’s. When I read the last page of Persepolis I just sat and had a good, hard cry. I was sitting next to my beloved on an airplane at the time, but he had read it too, so he understood. In fact he’s the one who told me to read it – what a wonderful man.
Salon called Satrapi ‘the Persian love child of [Art] Spiegelman and Lynda Barry.” So you know I’m in love. Watch the video of Dave’s interview at Ourmedia.
Watching and waiting
While we all sit around waiting to celebrate Fitzmas, we should also anticipate the 2,000th American soldier killed in Iraq, and the ensuing media frenzy. I expect it to happen today at this rate, but if not it will surely be tomorow.
We are also at something approaching 30,000 civilians killed in Iraq. And it’s all just a P.R. problem for Bush.
Questionable taste
I have a weakness for farts. They always crack me up. (This topic is Brian’s secret weapon for when I am in a bad mood.) In fact, I am a fan of bodily functions in general and have been known to cause people to burp more frequently as a result of simply being in my presence. I guess that’s my super power.
Anyway imagine the giggle fest when I found this: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Farts and Flatulence. Some choice excerpts:
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Thank you, Rosa
Rosa Parks has passed away. Don’t let the history books fool you, she was no accidental hero. She wasn’t just a tired old lady wanting a seat. Rosa Parks was a trained activist who took a calculated, strategic, and very effective action.
When media reduces a story of committed, long-term leadership to a 30-second celebrity moment, more harm than good is done… This reportorial reductionism suggests to the public that social activists “come out of nowhere to suddenly take dramatic stands.” Indeed, the overly-condensed, freeze-dried version discounts those people who spend years toiling for a cause without fame.
– The Hidden Leaders
Here’s to the heros who have come before us and the heroes that keep on coming.
Kids in Congress
I wonder if the indictments will put a damper on the playground feeling in D.C.?
Let’s go to TechSoup
It has begun! I just kicked off TechSoup’s week-long web event on Web 2.0 for Nonprofits with a question: who’s blogging and how do you know?
Please come hang out in the TechSoup forums with me today to discuss this and other topics…
Feed the world
Anyone who still isn’t using an aggregator should read Lance’s post on Why You Should Be Using RSS Feeds. It’s brief and helpful.
If you’re still not sure how you might use this, have a look at the feeds I read in Bloglines. You might find something useful there.
The new web for old organizations
Next week, TechSoup is hosting a week-long discussion of the Impact of Web 2.0 on Nonprofits. Now, I must admit that the buzz around this “2.0” idea is getting out of hand, and of course the obvious backlash has already started.
For the non-geeks out there, web 2.0 is a shorthand term to explain the new era of more interactive and individualistic things you can do online. Some of the most commonly cited examples are tagging (del.icio.us), social networks (Friendster), collaboration (wikipedia), syndication (bloglines), and that whole blogging thing. These applications aren’t new, but recently they have become much simpler to use, more accessible, and consequently much more widespread.
The reason I think this is important is that the result of applying Web 2.0 to activism is network-centric advocacy – something I get very excited about. Maybe we should also call it Advocacy 2.0…
So please join us at TechSoup next week. I’ll be co-hosting all-day on Monday. Try the veal…
Where does John Edwards vote?
Yesterday I managed to get a last-minute invitation to get blogger-access to John Edwards after his Opportunity Rocks kick-off speech here in Chapel Hill. I decided not to go since the only questions I have for him are personal, like when are you moving to (near) Carrboro, how do you like it here, isn’t it just for the schools, do you shop at Weaver Street, etc.
Well I turns out maybe I shoud have gone because now I have a serious question: Why aren’t John and Elizabeth Edwards registered to vote here? Is Orange County just another one of your stepping stones on the way to something greater, or do you actually plan to be a part of our community?
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