iTunes podcasts don’t play well with others
Bob Morris @ Jul 2nd 2005 16:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
DailySonic catches Apple caching our podcasts. Not cooool. [Scripting News]
Archive for July 2nd, 2005
Downtown Tomatoes
Bob Morris @ Jul 2nd 2005 09:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
The gardening blog, Downtown Tomatoes, Sue and I just started has some rather amazing photos( if I do say so myself) of dahlias and more, including a close-up of my favorite finger eater, Malo.
Villaraigosa becomes L.A. mayor, spouts inanities
Bob Morris @ Jul 2nd 2005 09:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
“What a beautiful country,” he said in Spanish to an audience of about 3,000. “I am proof that the United States is a country of opportunity and liberty. In what other country of the world could I be in front of you as mayor of a great city?”
Um, how about Spain, Brazil, Mexico, or the dozens of other countries where Latinos hold elected office?
When he introduced Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at Friday’s inauguration, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa set off a sustained wave of boos from those gathered at City Hall.
“Angelenos, excuse me,” Villaraigosa scolded the governor’s detractors. “There will be civility today.”
Antonio, Antonio, Antonio. Arnold wants to slash funding to cities, cut back on education, and destroy unions. So listen to your constituents who find Arnold’s actions noxious enough that he be booed at your Inaugural. Besides, didn’t you say you were progressive?
That unscripted moment at the start of Villaraigosa’s inaugural address put the Democratic mayor in the unlikely position of defending a Republican governor whose popularity is sagging. It also captured Villaraigosa’s effort to define himself as a centrist uniter.
“I’m a proud progressive,” said Villaraigosa, a former union organizer and American Civil Liberties Union leader. “But it’s time for those of us who call ourselves progressive to do more than just defend existing government programs. We need to be passionate advocates for change.”
Translation: I am no longer progressive and will distort the position of progressives, most of whom of course are little concerned with government programs in the first place and who already advocate for change.
Careful you don’t end up like Arnold, Mr. Mayor. It could happen.
Protest Lite AKA the war on dissent
Bob Morris @ Jul 2nd 2005 08:59 - Category: Unfiled ;
If you are attending the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh today, you need to be a “good” protester. The event is intended to lobby G8 leaders to do what the title suggests. Demonstrators are asked to march alongside Gordon Brown, wearing white, and to stay on-message. Don’t mention the war. Ditto for any critique of capitalism. Suggestions that G8 policy, far from alleviating poverty, is a direct cause of it, are not welcome. That constitutes “bad” protest. Shut up. Disappear. Stay at home.
Sounds like some factions of the U.S. antiwar movement whose primary purpose seems to be to funnel progressives into the Democratic Party where their dissent will be muted and who insist that issues like Palestine not be mentioned at protests. But there can never be peace in the Middle East until Palestinians have a place to call home, with many in the region seeing the Iraq War as inseparable from the Palestinian struggle. Nor can poverty in Africa be lessened until the role of the G8 in helping create that poverty is examined.
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