From D.C. Current at Barron’s (might be firewalled)

Compared to Barack Obama’s Web-savvy campaign, Hillary’s is downright prehistoric. Picture Wilma Flintstone trying to best child-genius Jimmy Neutron in a race for class president. Clinton needs the party’s 18-to-30-year-olds to secure the nomination, but has no idea how to reach them.

Texas is just too tech-savvy for the likes of her campaign. But Ohio, on the other hand, remains mired in the mechanical age. So she still has a chance there.

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Nader got 0.3% of the vote in 2004, just three-tenths of one percent.He will almost certainly do even more dismally this year.

Obama on Nader

“Ralph Nader’s view is, unless it’s Ralph Nader, then you’re not tough enough on any of these issues,” he said. “He thought there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush. I think eight years later, people realize Ralph doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

He added, “Ralph Nader deserved enormous credit for the work he did as consumer advocate.” But, he concluded, “His function as perennial presidential candidate is not helping put food on table.”

Note how Obama skewered Nader without whining about Nader stealing votes from Democrats. And yeah, as it turned out, there was and is an immense difference between Al Gore and George Bush…

Even Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World), a former Nader supporter like myself, sees a Nader run as pointless.

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Ostensibly to protect against “blasphemous” YouTube content, but more likely for political purposes, I’m guessing.

With presumably unintended consequences.

The leadership of Pakistan just created a massive Denial of Service on their own country.

Let’s hope this isn’t the prelude to increased repression there, locking the internet doors in an attempt to block information from getting out.

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But then, I never have been able to turn off my brain and robotically accept dogma. My thought crime apparently involved being insufficiently Marxist. Mentioned this to a long-time socialist friend who laughed and said, congratulations.

A Steppenwolf lyric seems appropriate.

Your mind is so narrow
That it’s no surprise
If you fell on a pin
You’d be blind in both eyes.

And a bit more poetically, also from Steppenwolf.

I can’t return to where you’re goin’
What I have learned, it can’t be undone
…
All my faith got caught in a maze
Lost our dreams in a far a way place
Now that I have seen you again
Can’t believe your world’s still the same.

This was of course done in the finest tradition of the far left, without explanation or recourse and in a way that insured any existing friendships were vaporized. Go figure.

Update: Thoughts on the subject. Marxist groups, organizing, and clowning.

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Time lapse video of construction of three enormous wind turbines. Whee…

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Loaded guns and knives in luggage and hidden, fake documents. Just another Friday checking passengers at TSA.

Yes, it’s a good thing they found the guns.

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The Solana Generating Station will use solar trough technology coupled with molten salt thermal energy storage.

It will cover three square mile and output 280 megawatts from two steam generators, enough to power 70,000 homes.

In 5-10 years there will be a stunning amount of new solar, wind, and geothermal power in the US. Business gets it now and increasingly, so do governments (except for the Flat Earth Society currently residing the White House of course, but they are on their way out.)

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