Politics
The film clip that kept me sane during the darkest days of the Republican regime. Re-posted in new, improved high-rez format
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- Thursday 8th February 2007
When things in the US seemed even worse than they are now – around the time of the 2004 Republican convention in NYC, when they were preparing to steal the election for the second time, and bragging about it – my state of rage and depression reached a fever pitch. Someone sent me a link to a film clip by Matt Lenski, who at the time was a producer/director for MTV. He’d done a piece against the…
Music & Sound
This is news to me
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- Thursday 8th February 2007
Introducing Steinski.net, a site completely in… japanese. If you read japanese, kindly let me know what this is…
Thoughts on Life
My Mom Wrote A Book!
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- Tuesday 6th February 2007
A moment for a little bit of family logrolling:
My mom grew up in Berlin, as the Nazis were taking over Germany and getting ready for the Holocaust. She’s written (along with three friends), a fine book called ~and Then There Were Four: Berlin Memories – 1930s And Beyond , about what it was like in the schools, on the streets, and at home while civilization crumbled.
My mom’s a good…
Politics
The Best Government Money Can Buy
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- Tuesday 6th February 2007
The dog’s breakfast that is electoral politics in the U.S. is, at base, a simple, market-oriented process.
1) It costs millions of dollars to run for almost any national political office.
2) Anyone running for national office – no matter how idealistic they may be when they begin – must raise a whole lot of money, unless thay have millions of their own to blow.
3) In order to raise…
