From the Blog of Rights, a strangely human text. Is it the saddest art? Yes.

Involuntary …

And no, I don’t mean Teh Ceiling Cat. Sober up. (Slaps readers upside head.) Concentrate! Noam Speaks:

Power resides in the hands of those that Madison called “the wealth of the nation.” The primary responsibility of government is “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” Madison declared. That has been the guiding principle of the democratic system from its origins until today.

Read it again. Prescient old fart, however inadvertently: (Madison, not The Noam!) the Opulent Minority is going to need protection one day. Man them barricades, you lazy-ass—Oh. Well, whenever and wherever the barricades go up, see you there.

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So says the New York Times, on … jesus, was it yesterday? That can’t be right?

Tectonic plates shifted, musta been weeks ago. Which speaks to the whole concept here.

Ain’t no small thing. The idea there exists in natures any lever with which to pry Cheney from his seat. I’ll leave you to think about what seat.

But what I think is, Whoa—A strike for Democracy!

What I think is, The battle for Democracy has been going on over here. We The People vs. Halliburton, in the largest sense.

You dislodge that Monstrous Machine, you done something for the People. I don’t care if it’s just the GOP wanting to ever get elected again. Doesn’t matter. That’s the democratic process, that’s life.

But the Halliburton-Corporate Profit-Amoral-Death-Machine belongs to no process but to promote itself and its own—that’s what makes it amoral, it has no business running the White House (course in this case someone had to) and, well, I am pretty much too stunned to know sensibly what to say.

It was already like Christmas to read about Rove’s demotion.

Oh are Happy Days are Here Again?

Blogger and technology columnist Doc Searls began keeping track of how many ‘hits’ Google found for the word ‘podcasts’ on September 28, 2004, when the result was 24 hits. There were 526 hits for ‘podcasts’ on September 30, then 2,750 three days later. The number doubled every few days, passing 100,000 by October 18. As of November 14, 2005 Google reported 99,700,000 hits for ‘podcasts.’

When I write that the revolution is already here, what I mean is: the revolution is here. You’re reading it.

What else is the web but pure, unstoppable democracy. Good luck, old men of China. Good luck, old men everywhere.

. . . as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on ‘Meet the Press,’ U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t pllet women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, ‘we’d all be thrilled,’ he said. ‘I mean, women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy.

Bite me.

Please. Bite me.

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