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Network Weaving: NOLA Networks

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Kudos to Sarah Lewis, Operations Director for ThinkNOLA, and Valdis Krebs from Network Weaving for their continued work on making sense of all the New Orleans groups involved in the recovery. Valdis has posted the first network map of the more than 1,000 groups, people and orginizations that Sarah catalogued. You can see the map […]

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Motivational Moment

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I. Effing. Hate. those insipid managerial motivational posters. The Demotivational posters [purchase] jumped the shark a long time ago, too. But, you have to have something in your mental back pocket to jump start yourself (as my last post illustrates). Mine is from Hugh MacLeod at gapidvoid.com and came from the Hughtrain, his response to […]

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Doldrums

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Warning: This post contains petty whining, references to winter, and cathartic material. I am not depressed, I just play it on the Internet. Fall must be on the way; I’m feeling the demotivating doldrums coming on. J– and I talked about this last night about how, in the middle of the day, I felt as […]

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Confessions of an Angry Blogger

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I have to ‘fess up; I got snookered, hoodwinked, and down-right tricked. My previous post about the Humane Society of the US (Don’t We Have More Important Things to Do) was, in short, wrong. Thanks to Dan for pointing out my ironic reaction to that false report about Wayne Pacelle’s statements; the Animal Agriculture Alliance […]

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Don't We Have More Important Things To Do?

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UPDATE: Welcome Googlers. Check out the follow-up post before you flame this one. Remember kids, if you want to advance your cause, personalize the subject and rev up your logical fallacies. Today’s example: they’re not dogs, they’re “Canine Americans”. No joke. And animal-rights groups wonder why we don’t take them seriously. I’m not advocating random […]

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Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you

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I’ve talked about Keith Olbermann before. I’m doing it again. Edward R. Murrow would be proud. Video here. Text below. Read it, watch it. And lastly tonight a Special Comment on why we are here. Half a lifetime ago, I worked in this now-empty space.And for 40 days after the attacks, I worked here again, […]