"The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works." -- Clifford Stoll, 1995.
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Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." The quote, in case you didn’t know, is not from nattering m...
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Shakespeare’s Sister has announced that she is bowing out of the Edwards campaign . Needless to say this is a very sad and sobering dev...
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Please don’t have this guy on again.
Want to take a moment to thank you for the john Amato interview.
For a long time I have visited Crooks and Liars for news. There is reporting on C & : that the main media does not bother reporting.
For instance, S. Carolina republican congressman arrested and convicted for selling child pron.
There is way too much of this for to long in the GOP universe.
Amato does post his reports from time to time and he hits some strong points on issues he takes on.
The interview gave me the insight of some of who he is and how he got into C & L.
He has always posted artist (music) posts I find agreeable and interesting.
As I grew up in the Bay area of Calif. spending lots of time at Fillmore and Winter land and all the other music venues as a very young kid who grew up as a wild animal with no parental supervision. Helping the Jefferson Airplane set up their stage to perform at Golden Gate Park or the same for another band at the time at UC Berkely campus for free music was a time that has past.
There is more I can say but I will leave it as Tanks.
I came to this party via the front page of Digg.com back in the Bush years. Blue Gal's blog and Crooks and Liars were both prominently and repeatedly displayed there, which I guess is a testament to the quality of their output back then. I was reading Blue Gal's blog one day and she was urging everyone to vote for Driftglass in some blog award thing or other, and I said well, maybe I'll vote for him (I did) but I'll need to, you know, read him first...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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