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Jimmy Carter has a new book out in which he takes direct aim at the current level of the mixing of religion and politics in American life. It’s called Our Endangered Values and there is a great review of it at the New York Review of Books.
The review itself uses the book as a [...]

I’m depressed that we still have another month or more of crappy weather. I’m depressed that I haven’t found a way to have two houses. One here for the summer, and one someplace warm for the winter.
I’m depressed at the seeming complete futility of living out any kind of isolated real opposition to [...]

The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a big paper on how the internet is helping build community (pdf).
This might wind up being something of a landmark study.
I’ll let you read it, and tell me.

Douglas Rushkoff has a blog! I first found Douglas Rushkoff in the GenX reader which I had bought as research for a massive and paradigm shifting paper on post-modernism in culture and religion. Or at least Matt Cooper said so. But, that’s another story.
Rushkoff is one of those culture critics who does [...]

This is really disgusting. The national news media totally fubared the story of young man’s suicide. They blamed his fellow gamers for egging him on and harassing his family. None of which happened. His fellow gamers in fact went to great lengths to try and talk him down.
These types [...]

You know, I’m as politically liberal as they come, but occasion even i think that the ACLU turns the paranoid hysteria up to 11, check out their scare video about government invasion of privacy, Be careful ordering that pizza, you never know who’s watching.

The nicest thing she’s ever written

William Gibson posted an essay on science fiction and history that you might, might, find interesting.

And as a follow up to my foodie post here’s a link to DIY Restaurants in San Francisco.
And a similiar story form the New York Times - Restaurants on the Fringe
a pdf copy of the same article, since NY Times articles sometimes just *poof* vamoose.

I’ve recently discovered the phenonemon of food blogs, and have dropped a lot of those into my RSS aggregator. This has been kind of a fun discovery for me. A sort of treasure trove of undiscovered fellow foodies hanging on the internet and swapping restaurant reviews and recipes.
The recipes are the best though. [...]