A friend of mine named Dan Martin (of St. Louis) has taken the time to arrange images of various Obama buttons into an attractive collage. It's attractive both artistically and in an Obamaesque-reknitting-of-the-social-fabric-sort-of-way. Using a high quality white paper, Dan has been busy distributing 11' x 17" copies of his…
First in London, and now in D.C. The campaign to make it okay to publicly be an atheist is spreading. Now it is right in your face, on buses in two capitol cities. The London group is found at AtheistCampaign.org, and the U.S. campaign is funded by the American Humanists,…
As expected, certain mouths are already looking for ways to tear down Obama and all he stands for, even though---perhaps especially because---they don't know just what that is. It is disheartening. It makes me want to sit them down in a chair from which they cannot move and ask them,…
Bill Ayers talked with Salon.com, exploring many issues. I was especially interested in his characterization of those Americans who would argue that they are passive or non-violent by the fact that they are not, themselves, physically violent. Per Ayers, there is no "neutral" when one's country is perpetrating despicable violence.…
Arriana Huffington, sitting in for Rachel Maddow, talks about Obama's frienemies with Bill Maher. Also at this same page, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt talks about our first Internet President.