Monthly Archives: November 2003

SAVE A LIFE

Posted on November 23, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Maureen Dowd writes in the NYT this week about the importance of being an organ donor. You can literally save the life of one of 100,000 people waiting for vital organs in North America alone. It costs you nothing except … Continue reading →

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THE WORDS & PICTURES OF HUGH MACLEOD

Posted on November 23, 2003 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve always admired artists who can sketch something clever in a few moments over a beer. It’s rare to find such an artist who also has a way with words. The combo is called a cartoonist, and one cartoonist that … Continue reading →

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‘AND I’M LEFT TO CONCLUDE THERE’S NO HUMAN ANSWER NEAR’

Posted on November 22, 2003 by Dave Pollard

As I get older I find I get essential solace and renewal from music, especially music of the remarkable years from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when we all thought we could save the world. One of my … Continue reading →

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INTELLIGENCE FAILURE: ‘WHAT WASHINGTON DOESN’T SEE IN IRAQ’

Posted on November 21, 2003 by Dave Pollard

In this week’s (Nov.24) New Yorker, author George Packer attempts valiantly to portray post-war Iraq accurately and moderately, so that both sides can realize what must urgently be done and hopefully draw together to stave off what he sees as … Continue reading →

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CORPORATISM — THE NEW ‘ENEMY WITHIN’

Posted on November 20, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Yesterday, Salon carried an interview by David Tabot with Robert Kennedy Jr., a long-time environmental campaigner. It’s worth a complete read, but here are some key excerpts, emphasis mine: The NRDC Web site lists over 200 environmental rollbacks by the … Continue reading →

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NON-TECHIE RANT AND APOLOGY

Posted on November 20, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Yesterday I got a new PC with a larger screen, and the first thing I did was check out how this blog looks on it using various browsers. What a shock. It looks awful. At the risk of scaring off … Continue reading →

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HAIKULOGISMS & HAIKUTHYMEMES– A CONTEST

Posted on November 19, 2003 by Dave Pollard

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a contest. So I’m going to award two prizes, each of $25, redeemable at the online vendor of your choice, to those who submit the best Haikulogism and the best Hiakuthymeme to me (by … Continue reading →

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THE WAL-MART DILEMMA

Posted on November 18, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Please read this thorough and extraordinary article from Fast Company entitled The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know. If its length discourages you, read the following excerpt (emphasis mine), and you’ll want to go back and read the rest: If Levi [Strauss] … Continue reading →

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CONTRIVANCE

Posted on November 17, 2003 by Dave Pollard

I had just been writing a weblog entry entitled THE WORLD AS A PRISON, explaining how we had all become so inured to being browbeaten, indoctrinated, humiliated, deceived, cowed, and intimidated by our fellow man that we had given up … Continue reading →

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SECOND LOOKS

Posted on November 16, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Disposable e-mail addresses: I recently proposed a way to permanently foil spam by giving each subscriber a whole domain of e-mail addresses and letting them set up an unlimited number of transient subdomains. Ron Bell points out that Yahoo Mail … Continue reading →

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