random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
tagged: war, liberty, peace, authority
—Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886.
Archive for March, 2004
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
Reading: Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert J. Pennock; Music: Disco, “Carmen”, Chumbawamba, Judy Garland, “Red Hot + Blue” (Cole Porter covers), Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips “Fellow Workers”, Klezmatics “I Ain’t Afraid” (cover of Holly Near song)
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Q-notes,
creationism, media consumption, music, reading.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2004
Recently read: “Science Friction: The growing and dangerous divide between scientists and the GOP” by Nicholas Thompson, Washington Monthly, July/August 2003.
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blinks, information,
media consumption, politics.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
Recently read: “Miscarriage of Justice” by Robert J. Howe, Salon.com, 2004-03-24 (fiction)
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blinks,
blinks, media consumption, reading, reproductive rights, sf.
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Saturday, March 20th, 2004
I’m out in DC, attending an IP Clinics meeting. Interesting how there are so many “access” clinics now, dedicated to small business / entrepreneurship — helping people get IP. Will the policy-oriented clinics be outweighed by the transactional clinics? Are we even the same kinds of clinics? I’m not sure. update 2006/2/7: I should have [...]
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been there, done that, ip, law,
commentary.
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Friday, March 19th, 2004
Fundrace.org – See who contributes how much to whom. Depressing how most contributions to Bush seem to be $1000 and $2000. No wonder the man has quadrillions of dollars.
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politics,
bad actors, blinks, bush, politics.
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Friday, March 19th, 2004
Insomnia, maybe. This is the first personal website that I’ve developed since, umm, 1994/95 — a website I took down in 1996/97 and haven’t used since. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of web pages, for personal use, projects, & other folks, but none about “me” in years and years.
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personal,
about this blog, musings, personal.
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Saturday, March 13th, 2004
Recently attended the 9th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair.
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been there, done that,
anarchism, anarchist bookfair, bookfair, culture.
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