Geronimo speaks

La Cucaracha 7/25

What it feels like to be smear attacked Karl Rove-style by my opponent fellow Democrat Mary Nichols

Byron DeLear is running as a progressive Democrat for Missouri State Rep. Cross-posted from Progressive Examiner on Examiner.com

Andrew Breitbart and Fox News have learned their tricks from the grand pooh-bah of negative campaigning: Karl Rove. The recent forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod due to a perverted editing job by Andrew Breitbart framing her [...]

Recessions: Better for Right Than Left

Doug Henwood

For a long time, I’ve been critical of the left-wing penchant for economic crisis. Many radicals have fantasized that a serious recession — or depression — would lead to mass radicalization, as scales simultaneously fell from millions of pairs of eyes and the imperative of transcending capitalism became self-evidently obvious. I’ve long [...]

A fine night for a walk

Cedar Breaks National Monument UT, Spectra Point

Elevation is 10,000+ feet. It’s a truly amazing place, and not that many know about it. It’s easily accessible by road (except in the winter) and the trail out to Spectra Point is about a mile and well maintained.

Some nearby bristlecone pines are 1600 years old.

This is an iPhone photo.

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Ustream. Live video streaming from a smart phone

Now this is handy. Stream video live from your iPhone or other smart phone to Ustream, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and more. Ustream archives all the videos too. This is great for streaming live events like press conferences, protests, etc.

You can of course record video and upload it later, like I did with the [...]

Van Jones: Where is the Titanic’s iceberg? Who are the Orcs?

Scarecrow at FDL on Van Jones’ Netroots Nation speech saying “Obama volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic, after it hit the iceberg” and that the Orcs are coming.

I don’t agree with Jones about the captain [Obama] — he’s not, and doesn’t appear capable or or inclined to be, what I believe [...]

Pay czar whops Wall Street like a ferocious kitten

Pay czar Ken Feinberg on the attack against Wall Street pay excesses

Feinberg said Wall Street was “ill-advised” to pay themselves so much but declined to actually do anything about it, like demand the money back.

Pathetic, isn’t it?

Glenn Beck and Goldline

Goldline founder Nicholas Deak. Time called him “the James Bond of the world of money” in 1964

A New York congressman is asking Goldline International pointed questions about their sales tactics and commission structure, particularly as it pertains to collectible gold rather than bullion. Goldline, who advertises heavily on Glenn Beck’s show, has [...]

Smart grid has to be distributed, voluntary, collaborative

A smart grid network, Cerf said, will be highly dependent on “people’s willingness to connect in this way,” and “this is not going to be something that can be forced on anyone no matter how hard we try.”

The smart grid is about extracting and sharing information in the best way possible to manage resources, [...]