Ding Dong,

The witch is dead. . . " tra la. The recent demise -by hanging- of Saddam Hussein moved that little tune to the forefront of my brain.

Why, oh why, do the NS, Mozilla, IE peeps find it necessary to hide so thoroughly the location of one's personal book marks and addresses. Every time I wipe and reinstall, they seem to be hiding in a new and different location. my 2nd (maybe the 3rd?) back up hard drive, seems to have lost track of an entire directory, *MINE* under "Documents and Settings." Arrrgh

stayin alive

From Alternet

speaks to my long held contention that Internet was going to change the world. Change the dialog, change the paradigm, of civilization as we know it.

Hopeful Signs For Global Justice

By Mark Engle

Thousands of similar campaigns stood up to local injustices, challenged corporate power, and provided the energy that ultimately unseated presidents. As we are reminded daily of the hard realities that persist in an era of executive excess and superpower militarism, their victories might seem disparate and few. But they have shown that they can accrete and build, gradually bridging the divide that separates us from once-distant possibilities: the death of neoliberalism, the political re-creation of the Americas, the end of extreme poverty, a democratic globalization. The quiet wins of 2006 together remind us that change is more possible than we might sometimes despair -- and that it is not entirely naive to invest hope in the promise of a new year.

Tagged as: globalization, neoliberalism, justice, bush, democracy

Mark Engler is a commentator for Foreign Policy in Focus. He can be reached via DemocracyUprising.com.

Stand and Wait

Here's a picture: four Major Generals, standing , fidgiting, behind a platform in front of which the Shrub will be speaking shortly. Fidgit fidgit

An inconvenient Truth

Just watched a rerun Oprah featuring Al Gore and a full hour of dire global warming warnings. Dire, meaning dire - not to denigrate the seriousness of the state of the climate. I was watching it on purpose, preaching to the choir, and all that, so I was free to pick it apart heh heh. About half way in I began to wonder what the drop out rate was going to be. Near that point, there came a recorded message from Leonardo Di Caprio to keep the girls looking, but it was quite serious, too, and maybe it kept a few feather heads tuned in. There was some information on how each individual could do just some small things, most of which save you money, to reduce CO2. If half the audience finished it, I'd like to think they'd tell their friends who'd quit watching. Pipe dreams, maybe. Oprah changes the world - again- smile.

I began to see that the 2000 election 'debacle' as I like to call it, may have been a blessing in disguise, leaving Gore free to focus on what probably IS the biggest threat to Mankind, with a capitol M.