Comments on: the mourning after

By: Muspelheim

Muspelheim — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:32:43 +0000

Load the best music in mp3 as well as the last movies of Box Office.

By: Bibi's box

Bibi's box — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:47:13 +0000

After the tragedy

from Mirror, via Alas, a Blog The tragedy for me was Bush re-election. I’m not American but I read some blogs from Americans and I have some online buddies that live in US and I’m very sad for them. I still thinking about why, he won and I still can’t…

By: Lyn

Lyn — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:09:27 +0000

I woke up on Wednesday the 3rd feeling not depressed, but very worried. And it’s not a new feeling. I’ve now grown accustomed to living with a constant worry about the direction the U.S. (at least) is taking. All those apocalytic sci-fi books and movies, along with a historical perspective and a keen sense of what horror humans are capable of inflicting upon one another, are combined inside me to create an underlying, ever-present fear of what is to come. Especially for my 11 year old son. Not that I don’t have any hope, but I don’t remember LIVING with this worry the way I do now. How many of us live like this now, and don’t even remember what it was like to not?

When I see references to battle and war made by folks in my camp, I worry even more.

By: tony

tony — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:25:36 +0000

danah,are u ok?

By: Read/Write Web

Read/Write Web — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:14:27 +0000

Living Data - The Momentum of Webfeeds

It's about movement of data/content (in time); not places wheredata/content resides. A word which I've been noticing

By: mindtangle

mindtangle — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:06:33 +0000

Post Election

I have been in a deep funk since election night. Lots of thoughts running amok in my head, constant conversation with with friends and strangers. It hasn’t been a big study week. I can’t get into all of the ideas:…

By: Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:24:40 +0000

Wednesday I woke up convinced of the collapse of our Republic, and ready to move to Canada, Costa Rica, Finland or wherever.

Thursday I woke up wanting our Republic back.

This afternoon, I’m pretty sure if we stand and fight, we can take it back.

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 05:51:41 +0000

Despite what have been said by David Fernandes earlier, there is an equivalent to marriage called PACS available to homosexuals in France, it offers the same protections, the same fiscal advantage and is basicaly the same thing with two exceptions :
1) it’s not called a marriage
2) it doesn’t take place in a city hall but in a lower class administrative bureau
My guess is that marriage will be available for gays in Europe within the next 5 years, since they’re no Christian coalition here
Recently, an italian European Union official who declared that homosexuality was a sin got fire from the European commission just for saying so. Here in Europe, an especialy in France, Jesus, Jehova, God or Allah are totaly banned from politics and we sure intend to keep it this way.

For all of you americans who wonder what to do now, France is a nice place for immigration, there’s already plenty of americans here and even if Bush is totaly hated, openly democratic americans are sure to be welcomed.

Regards form France

By: Lukas

Lukas — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:37:37 +0000

I don’t mean to slight Jo in any way, but there is another perspective worth considering:

“There is a divide in this country today, miles wide and fathoms deep. It has cleaved our great nation, and has only grown – and will only continue to grow. But it’s not a left/right split, or Democrat/Republican one. It’s lunatic/non-lunatic.

Our culture has been swept along in a tide of emotionally-resonant, steadfastly anti-rational entertainment, and politics is at the head of the wave. The course of our country, the future of our people, is being determined by lizard-brain responses to images designed to trigger sub-rational responses.”

(Greg Knauss, via Waxy)

So what Michael Moore achieves has to be weighed against the consequences – encouraging people to enjoy a reflexive, cathartic anger, rather than doing the difficult work of trying to think through issues with as little pre-judgement as possible. Our biggest handicap in this race was our deep conviction that we were right, because it blinded us to how to rest of America sees things, and thus made it impossible for us to persuade them.

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:38 +0000

I am not American and should not be making comments, but I ran from the beast myself, I left my country, so I can relate to the piece – which was beautifully written in my opinion. After 6 yrs, I see things from the outside much better. I don’t preach the dropping of hands, I believe you can still contribute from the outside, trying to promote change in a variety of ways. This is my way of making battle with my fingers and war with my hands.

As for the melodrama – whatever writing style that gets the message across is worth it and there should be more emotion in the world anyway, more passion in articles like this one. Maybe that is why changes are not happening, too many heads, not enough souls engaged in the change.