Democratic Call to Arms!

Ok, so I know that this post is a little late in its coming; however, I'm fairly certain that it's gone largely unnoticed by both the Blogosphere and the MSM.

Sen. Clinton has been charged with the awesome task of creating the agenda and platform for the Democratic Party. It is time, however, that both the DNC and the party's ruling group the DLC learn that the Party of the People must look to and learn from the people so that we can become the Party forthe People.

I'm issuing a Call to Arms. I want any and every Democrat who reads this to Email Sen. Clinton, and let her know where we stand. We're for People!

It sounds too simple, but it's the truth.
We're for individual liberties, for the equal opportunity of all person, for human dignity, for the betterment of people's lives, for quality jobs, for a constantly improving education system, for a sensitive and intelligent healthcare system that helps Americans instead of sustaining them, for happy and safe families, and for betterment of the American people.

Get involved!
Decide the future of your party!
Let the woman who's deciding all this know where you stand!

And let's make the Party of the People, the Party for People!

Please Get Your Acts Together (I'm getting tired of Windows and OS )

This is definitely a good sign and a step in the right direction. The State of Massachusetts recently decided to take a similar step in making all of its gov offices switch to Open Office formats sometime in the near future.

I'd just like to say this to the Linux Community: the world is obviously ready to make steps towards a more open information society - and I'm not talking indie technophiles, even governments are doing it! But please, quit fracturing yourselves among so many distros that have slow turn arounds in improvements. Consolidate, focus, and innovate.

Consolidate the number of distros to the major 3 that are widely recognized as the best. Abandon the rest and leave them for what they are -- children's distractions.

Create open wiki's for these so that all people can easily access the code, improve the code, and update/upload the code to one main reliable space for all to access and enjoy.

Call all Linux Developers to arms to race to come up with the best platform ever. I mean it!

I want Linux to blow Windows Vista and OS # out of the water because it's so damn good. Come on guys! You have the smarts, just do it already.

More Stale Politics

This can't be good for our country.

So Trite, Still True

I'm not a Kucinich fan, but some version of his Dept of Peace is needed within the DOD if we are to end this useless cycle.

A Greener, Cleaner Future

This would be so fucking awesome if all the buildings in all major cities had this!

Free Press NOT a Luxury

As a politics student, I'm often told by more realist aligned scholars, professors, and politicos that a free society is a luxury in terms of nation-building and political economies. There is more or less an Maslow-esque order to the progression of a nation-state, and that the freedoms of expression are last on the list.

I'm beginning to wonder if this, like an increasing number of realist arguments, is bunk. The texting of Iranian youth during their most recent election, the encouraging steps by the Ugandan government in disclosure, and the Cambodian youth are all making me think that perhaps if we turned the pyramid on its side, that maybe nation building could be more democratically pragmatic and less purely capitalistic. Though I don't want to fall prey to Kant's lofty goals.

I'm Back!

I just thought I should let everyone know that for the past few months I sadly fell prey to what I once read as "blog depression." I got caught up with my summer job, and then with the starting of a new school year [for those of you who don't remember I'm a BA Candidate at NYU] that I just quit blogging. At times I missed it, esp. being able to freely express myself thru writing that somebody might find useful; but new habits emerged, and I just got in the habit of not writing.

But now I'm back!

I'm going to do a blitz of posts this weekend on some topics that are a bit old by now, but still quite important. I'm not doing this just to get my 2cents in, but so that I'll help draw attention to the items being forgotten by the MSM and at times the Blogosphere. After that I'll go back to what I do best, an inside glance at New York politics esp. the AG Race. And yes, someday soon I'll explain why that race is so much more damn important than others.

Till then . . .