short notes:
will brady's ruminations


2004-11-05
 
HOMELIFE
Sylvester has diabetes | he's the white and black cat sprawled across the rug | Baby, his Manx companion is seated behind him | He's 8 to 10 years of age | Don't know since Bill got him at the Humane Society and they weren't too sure themselves | Now it's learning all about how to treat feline diabetes and determining whether or not doing everything called for is actually feasible |
     The literature suggests, properly treated, a cat with diabetes can live many years | The practical problem is that there is an extra expense to treating the cat, and for someone on a very low income, it might not be possible to take on the additional ongoing expenses |
     Euthanizing Sylvester isn't the desired outcome | Maybe the vet can give us some pointers on doing this econmically |
 
 
SECESSIONISTS
The North Shall Rise Again! |
     The United States is no stranger to Secessionist movements | Indeed, the very birth of the nation was, essentially, an act of seceding from the 18th Century British Empire | The Great Civil War of 1860-1865 was fought over a range of issues, the practice of slavery being the one remembered the best, but also over economic and cultural divides |
     Throughout the nation's history, there have been other movements of secession, some not about withdrawing from the nation, but in establishing a different state [e.g. Michigan's Northern Peninsula]
     So it ought come as no surprise that, in this more frenzied time, the call to secede is heard once more | It is heard most clearly in Vermont and, building upon that, Idaho | I expect we shall hear more of the idea in the coming months |
     But it is the Vermont situation that unfolds even as this is written | This weekend, at the Middlebury Inn, Middlebury, Vermont, a "radical consultation" will be held to discuss "The Options Open to Us Now in Planning For Life After the Collapse of Empire" | Facilitated by Professor Thomas Naylor and noted author Kirkpatirck Sale, the "
...underlying premise of RADCON II is that the United States has become ungovernable and unsustainable. If that is indeed the case, then do we go down with the Titanic or seek other alternatives? Among the options to be discussed... are denial, compliance, and political reform, proven to be deadends; revolution, rebellion, and implosion, equally problematic; and decentralization, devolution, and peaceful dissolution..
     The Second Vermont Republic is a peaceful, democratic, grassroots, solidarity movement committed to the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic. The Fourth World, which publishes The Fourth World Review, a periodical inspired by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, is committed to small nations, small communities, small farms, small shops, the human scale, and the inalienable sovereignty of the human spirit.
"
The outcome this event's deliberations shall warrant review |
THANKS TO: Jason King for bringing this to my attention | FOR MORE ON SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS check my weblinks page for the letter S | ABOUT THE PICTURE Entitled: "Governed by Consent". this is the top half of an illustrated essay I wrote in 1990 | You can click on the image for a full text version of this essay |
 
2004-11-04
 
ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALS
Well, not really | Leather, and animal skins have been dubbed "...the most delicious way to soften hard surfaces..." by one high fashion decorator in New York | Farther down the column [PERSONAL SHOPPER, by Marianne Rohrlich NYTimes 4 Nov 2004] the cost of alligator skins are quoted as going for "$12,960 a square foot" but one could get a fake; embossed cowhide finished to look like the real thing is $22.50 a square foot" | But why bother? | Even if the alligator is no longer an endangered species, personally, I don't see why it's skin needs to be harvested for high-priced designer uphostered chairs, motorcycle seats or steering wheel covers [alright, so the last one is "simulated"] |
     I can, however, imagine a good cooked meal, and the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services happily provides recipes on some tasty entrees | But raising animals just to line a butt-warmer on a crotch rocket? That seems too much | There are some things we just don't need |
 
 
COMBATTING FORCED PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT
Human Rights advocacy group warn of Dubya's plans to use psychiatry to force mind control drugs on people |
     The human rights group Mind Freedom, known as the "...Amnesty International of mental health...", has, together with The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights begun a program, The Mind Shield for folks who may end up in a psychiatric facility |
     According to psychologist Al Galves, "The MindFreedom Shield is a quick, cost-effective defense against people being railroaded into using such methods as medication and electroshock to alleviate normal responses to life issues that can more effectively, economically and safely be addressed through interpersonal emotional support and creative action."
     See the MADBOOK entry on Forced treatment and ways to combat it for the entire news release from SCI
 
 
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
The State of Barbarous Ignorance | A duo of videos produced by BBC-2 and online at Information Clearinghouse provide a chilling documentary on what brought us to where we are today |
     Two major philosophical directions, neconservativism and al q'aeda, evolved since World War Two | Both motivate followers on the idea that the world must be protected from "moral decay" | The worship of materialism and of the self, both posited, has brought us to the situation we face in the world today | Yet both work on the premise that we must rely upon the leaders in power would would rule on promises to allay the average person's fears |
     By the late 1960s the influence of both philosophies began to be felt | Controlling information, knowledge, became a part of thier modus operendi | Although in the past such efforts came via book burnings, in the USA the same was acheived by literally throwing away "obsolete" texts from libraries, ostensibly as part of "modernizing" them | This, and ursurpation of the public education system [begun under Reagan, to be accelerated with No Child Left Behind] Together with then directing that culturally conservative religious dominate educational procresses would help neocons to control the spread of knowledge and of critical thinking [just like the European Dark Ages]
     The end effect has been, ironically, to create the nightmares that freightened people fear |
     But knowledge cannot be eradicated | And while this brief note doesn't identify what went on simultaneous in the Middle East, other places document this |
     Information Clearinghouse provides these two BBC-2 don't-miss videos explaining the development of these twin movements | Maybe we'll see it on the History Channel, but why wait? | Go see them now |
Pix credit: Theocracy Watch: The Rise of the Religious Right, photo of a March 25, 2001 book burning in Butler, Pennsylvania | RESOURCES: American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom | THANKS TO: Moon of Alabama for the link |
 
2004-11-03
 
PROBABLE OUTCOMES

Need a truck? Got any wood?
Cynically speaking, I expect we will need a lot more of these in the next four years, since it's certain a whole lot of metaphorical bovine byproduct will be coming our way

Thanks, by the way, to everyone for voting

DATELINE: ENGSOC- New England Sector | 02-11-04 | I know it ain't over yet | There's likely to be lawsuits about voter harssment, illegal denial of voting, voter fraud more questions raised about Diebold [and other] electronic voting machines, both because of "glitches" and due to the lack of enough voting machines to serve the demand | These shall likely wrangle their way through the courts interminably, whether or not Kerry concedes to Bush |
     We still have unanswered questions, allegations and charges from the ENRON-Bechtel-Halliburton-Nortel-Quest-Global Crossing-Carlyle Group [and who knows how many others] financial scams and [possibly] outright thefts of American resources to sort out | Litigation and independent investigations [some of them acknowledgedly conspiracy theory laden] are already going on with these |
     There's still John Ashcroft at Justice [can we start calling it Ministry of Truth now, rather than have to wait?] | And Colin Powell's son, Michael, at the FCC who is trying to both give away access to free speech [unless you happen to own a corporate media giant] and restrict the internet | There's the forced drugging fanatic tag-team of E Fuller Torrey + Sally Satel driven so-called "mental health" screening for all USA citizens thing to deal with [in the Soviet Union they called dissent "creeping schizophrenia", going by yesterday's tabulated votes, that includes maybe 46 to 48% of all the voting population]
     And of course, more mundane things; livable wages, health care, the plan to eviscerate Social Security | Gosh, I could go on | In short, it may not be a pretty four more years, but it sure won't be boring | Maybe hand me the Xanax now and get it over with |
     But wait! ...there will be more | For there will, indeed come a day [no tellin the exact day or year] when those ardent supporters will grasp that they'd been hoodwinked, cheated, lied to, stolen from and betrayed | And they will want something done about it | History has shown that when mass epiphanies such as this occur, the outcome isn't pretty |
     Stay tuned |
 
 
COGENT PLANNING
I write this without knowing what progress has been made in counting the voter tally since 2100 hours [+5 GMT] so I don't know if the plan is enactable |
     But the site author of Zen of Design clearly and succinctly [short when seen as a position paper] outlines his objections to Bush, as well as providing a framework from which to make thuoghful decisions about a range of subjects important to our nation's future | To give you a sense of underlying point of view, he notes
"Politically, I’m a liberal on social and civil concerns, tempered by fiscal conservatism. My brand of fiscal conservatism is different than the Republican party’s, I’ll grant. Taxes aren’t an issue for me - I don’t mind paying my fair share. Just don’t spend my money on stupid shit, and don’t max out the USA’s credit card so a huge hunk of my future tax bill isn’t flushed down the national toilet paying off interest of debt."
Go review the rest yourself at his entry titled An enthusiastic support of Kerry
 
2004-11-02
 
CONDUITS TO SOCIAL CHANGE
Moyra wrote me recently with this: "What is your interest in homelessness...? It is not a subject that a great many people gravitate towards" | It got me thinking | Basically, I don't know as I've been asked what motivates me to do the work I do, or even ~ how do I frame my point of view about societal problems | Given the time and context of the question, my response seemed to speak to broader concerns than that which she asked | This is what I wrote back

I have a long standing, very strong, and abiding interest in social justice | With that comes a real awareness of disenfranchised souls, and how society regards and treats them |
arret!     In the work I do, I meet many who are far beyond the mainstream, including people with no discernable domicile | My "day job" is, essentially, advocating for people with psychiatric disabilities; listening to, investigatingand working to resolve, grievances from clients who are housed at a maximum security inpatient psychiatric facility | At times, my work takes me beyond the confines of place | No surprise for everyone's lives are intertwined, and thus related |
     In this work I've gotten close to people who later went lost | Some who died frozen in empty buildings, or under bushes in a pool of their own body fluids | This summer a man was found drowned | With each one of them, their loss was great, for, psychically, each of them were rather like family | Not everyone dies | Some remain at the edge of the world, yet trapped with not apparent ability to be released and to once again [or sometimes ~ for the first time in their life] grow |
     I don't know as I can say, specificially, what "gravitates me towards" what I do, or even how I think and reflect upon the state of the world right now; homelessness being but one manifestation of gross and cruel injustices heaped upon all of us, not only those with no specific place to live | It is the homeless, however, who perhaps not only bear the brunt of, but live daily with, the manifestations of those injustices |
     Aside from that, I really do not fathom or understand why it is that so many people veer away from interacting with people who are clearly not mainstream |
     So I write about this, and at times, do photography and painting | The objective being that each of us with even a glimmer of awareness, are thence obligated to try to awaken the rest of society's citizens so that social wrongs might one day be righted | we are, essentially, conduits to social change, and I pray humanity hears whay has to be said, pays heed, and does something about injustice | The failure so to do, not only speaks poorly of society, but of those who know that probelms exist that need be addressed, yet do little or nothing about them |

I have no intention of being one of those who neither says nor does nothing
 
 
LEST WE FORGET || ...
VOTE TODAY!
    
  Walden ODell President of Diebold Corp  
    

If you have trouble on Election Day, call (866) OUR-VOTE, set up by the
Election Protection Coalition / People For the American Way
To report election fraud, voter harassment or other voting irregularities visit Vote Watch 2004
 
 
LESSONS FROM HISTORY

The 1948 election polls by Gallup, Roper, and Crossley all forecasted that Republican Thomas Dewey would beat Democrat Harry Truman. The Chicago Daily Tribune even printed a headline stating that Dewey had won.
 
 
AT THE POLLS
It's a heavily Democratic town so I don't know | Except for the time the town voted to put sewers on Main Street voter turnout was higher than I've ever seen it | It's a real social occasion in town, with each party setting up booths for coffee and snacks | Felt bad for the Republican booth folks | Poeple weren't even going over to eat their pumpkin bread [I did] On the other hand, our town is one where the Dems and GOP co-mingle | Chris Dodd voted here [as you can see below] The police were here to manage traffic, which was necessary | The only pollsters at the site this morning are canvassing for Love Makes a Family and want to know how people stand on gay marriage | The Heinz Warnecke statue in front of Town Hall might suggest what kind of results their poll got, but you never know | Now it's just to wait it out | The pictures give a glimpse of this morning's activities |



Hi George!

Lines like this almost never happen in this town

I'd vote for these guys

Politician kissing babies at the door
Disclosure: It's Dodd's daughter

"My husband is gonna kill me if he sees this"

Working Together
 
 
MAKING VOTES COUNT || THE DIEBOLD APPROACH


THANKS TO Dave at Space Coast Web / Blog
 
2004-11-01
 
LEST WE FORGET || ECONOMIC TREASON
On November 2nd, VOTE!

If you have trouble on Election Day, call (866) OUR-VOTE, set up by the
Election Protection Coalition / People For the American Way
To report election fraud, voter harassment or other voting irregularities visit Vote Watch 2004
 
 
THE DAY OF THE DEAD
This is a universal day to honor those who have crossed to the Spirit realm | Mexicans call it "Día de los Muertos" | In Poland it's "Zaduszki" or "Dziady" | A curious [though not unusual] blend of Pagan and Christian religious ceremony | Generalizing broadly, the holiday's activities consist of families (1) welcoming their dead back into their homes, and (2) visiting the graves of their close kin | This is not a dismal observation, but one of celebration | This observation is "...magickal and special, the time of spirits and souls, divination and remembrances..." |
     It is, nevertheless, "... a solemn celebration, for it is believed that at this time the souls of the dead return to visit their homes. At twilight the family lights candles, to shine a beacon to the souls as they return..." |
     The Day of the Dead can range from being a very important cultural event, with defined social and economic responsibilities for participants, to being a religious observance featuring actual worship of the dead |
     One practice, observed across cultures, Anglo Americans would do well to pay heed to, even to emulate and practice | Namely, when preparing the feast, to share the bounty with the poor and disadvantaged | Denice Szafran, writing about Zaduszki, says the poor
"...played an important part in the faith- life of the community. Most often, people were beggars not because they didn't feel like working or settling down, but because they were .... special, touched lightly by the hand of the divine. It was said that they more than most talked to the spirits, and connected with the souls .... it is my opinion, shared by few, that this tradition arose around those individuals who were nomad types, the (for want of a better term here) saintly folk, and around those as well that were "different", not in their appearance, which by virtue of being alone and without a home was naturally disheveled, but different in the sense of being ... less worldly, less preoccupied with the material plane, those for whom talking to the Mother was an accepted everyday occurrence, those who heard voices and saw spirits. Shamanic? Perhaps. I think more than likely, though, now we call them "developmentally disabled" and try to treat this gift as if it were a curse instead..."
     Some believe that the ceremony and ritual can be a means of seeking guidance and wisdom from our ancestors | Given that in this nation we face a profound decision tomorrow, it seems also prudent to seek the wisdom of the ancients so as to thoughtfully direct us to pursue a more harmonious future |
     Following in the tradition of this occasion, the American Friends Service Committee [the Quakers] have chosen to hold a nationwide Election Eve Candlelight Vigil | To hold our nation in the light | To show that democracy matters | To call for clean elections | To remember the things we all need to care about — peace, justice, security | Click on the banner below for details |
Other Sites: Okana's Celtic and Polish Traditions |Ricardo Salvador on Mexico's Day of the Dead | Candlelight Vigil Plans || Image Credits: [clockwise from candle] 1-Print Artist clip art | 2-Photo modified in Photoshop by yours truly | 3-Dziady sculptures by Robert Koenig, village of Dominikowice in Poland | 4- Graffiti art from a wall in downtown Kansas City, MO, posted by HeaTheN WoRLD Art Gallery | 5-Film frame from Day of the Dead / 1957, photograph © Lucia Eames dba Eames Office |
 
 
NECESSARY DISTRACTIONS
Fun with Grapes | Back in 1994, when "the internets" were still a neophyte thing [at least for the public] Patrick Michaud published the results of a duplicatable experiment using the common seedless white grape |
     Using only "locally available funds and equipment" [honest you can do it in your kitchen, the research demostrated a unique pyrotechnical phenomenon exhibited by this ordinary snack food source |
     Mr. Michaud speculated that the experiment was a relatively safe procedure, but since it may involve combustion, some caution is advised before deciding to do it at home |
 
 
EMINEM'S ENDORSEMENT
Rapper Emimem slams Bush
A call to arms, of sorts | Mobilize against indifference, greed, war lust, racism |
    
Calling for Dubya to "...grab an AK-47 and fight your own war ..." and "no more blood for oil"
    
Not subtle, by a long shot, but does it need to be?
 
 
DRUG WARS || MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION
Mandated military use of Anthrax vaccine is now illegal | Federal district court rules anthrax vaccine not safe and effective, rebukes FDA |
     Blue Lemur reports that the
District of Columbia Federal Court issued a long-awaited ruling on the licensure of the anthrax vaccine, ruling that the vaccine had never properly been tested or approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and that its mandated use by the U.S. military was voided without informed consent.
     The outcome is the product of a suit filed by six anonymous servicemembers, some of whom became ill after taking the vaccine, which asserted that it was unsafe and never properly licensed.
In his ruling, United States District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rebuked the FDA for allowing the use of an untested vaccine.
     “By refusing to give the American public an opportunity to submit meaningful comments on the anthrax vaccine, the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act,” Sullivan wrote in his conclusion.
     “Congress has prohibited the administration of investigational drugs to service members without their consent,” he added. “This court will not allow the government to circumvent that requirement.”
Read the whole story | Of course, this story makes me wonder if this is from one of those pesky "activist judges" |
 
2004-10-31
 
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
I don't profess to be a seer nor a psychic | But I am troubled and concerned about the course of this nation if GWB gets elected this time | Actually, Steve Gilliard has said it better than me, but for the record here's my take on the situation |
     Typically, I would not spend as much time, energy or effort in writing about political campaigns except, perhaps, on a local level | Certainly I'm opinionated, but I believe I've always been clear about this | The things I write about reflect my thoughts, perspectives, values and, at times, the course of action I believe would be most productive for the common good |
     Were this some other year, a different election between differing parties, I would not be so strident in my objections to the current occupant of the White House | Frankly, I'd be happy to party with the guy | But even as fa back as college I had little respect for frat brats and people who could not accept differing points of view | And, frankly, his monomanic perspective worries me | Lets' be straighforward here, he's a dangerous extremist, and not one that Barry Goldwater would approve of, that I'm certain | I agree with Hunter S. Thompson, were Nixon alive, I'd vote for him in contrast to Dubya |
     We'll still have a divided Congress | Thanks to Reagan, Bush Senior and GWB, the Federal Courts are already stacked | And more people ~finally~ appear energized to speak their mind rather than watch World Wrestling Federation, Will & Grace or Design on a Dime | I remain confident that, under a Kerry administration, dissent, while not entirely welcomed, will, at least, be heard | Given Dubya's handlers propensity to stifle dissent I do not feel similarly comforted were Bush elected in 2004 |
     But what of the future? That's what I said I'd write about here | Well, there's lots of work to be done | We need to re-establish our commitment to all citizens, not merely those of privilege | We need to pursue the development of fuel and energy sources other than oil, natural gas, coal or nuclear ...and we need to recognize that other kinds of energy resources are not hippy dippy "alternative" amusements | And we need to focus on getting more disciplined about how we think critically, analyze problems, and cease and desist on the anti-knowledge attitudes that have been so dominant in this last quarter century |
     Mind you, I don't find Kerry to be any great shake | But he's got a solid, predictable, track record, and I can live with it |
     He's from a family and background of privilege | he does not seem to be any sort of great visionary [I think of Brazil's Gilberto Gil, as a contrast, for example] I have concerns about his corporatist values, am uncomfortable about where he stands on firearms ownership, don't know if he has any real understanding of what the common man and woman in the USA have to deal with on a daily basis, just to get by | But then again, Franklin Roosevelt was patrician and did what needed to be done to help acheive social equity for many in this nation | As to his style of presentation, so he's boring | We could use a boring President right now | I don't like dealing with moodswings ~ or duplicity ~ from someone in the White House | A lust for power is not a good reason for entrusting someone in that seat | That, I believe, is the single motivating factor for Dubya and the rabid pack surrounding him |


     So I'm going with Kerry, reluctantly, but that's my vote | I urge others to get out and vote as well | Oh, and take someone else with you for the ride |

Reporting voting irregularities | If you have trouble on Election Day, call Election Protection at (866) OUR-VOTE | Find out where to vote | To report election fraud, voter harassment or other voting irregularities visit Vote Watch 2004
 
 
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
A Note to readers tonight | You may see, briefly, an entry I am working on for 2 November 2004 | This is only a test to see what it will look like |

 
 
LEST WE FORGET || GROSS INCOMPETENCE
On November 2nd, VOTE!

If you have trouble on Election Day, call (866) OUR-VOTE, set up by the
Election Protection Coalition / People For the American Way |
To see the videotape the above picture is excerpted from visit VideoVote.com
 
 
MORE ENDORSEMENTS
Four Words: Bush Relatives for Kerry | In the name of support for democracy, human rights, fiscal responsibility, truce compassion for the poor, and objections to injustice, incomprehending obstinancy, personal megalomania and sheer arrogance and indifference to human suffering [as well as incompetence], Dubya's second cousins [grandchildern and great grandchildren of Prescott Bush] put up a webpage to say they are heartily endorsing John Kerry for President |
 
rondak main pagePerspectives on: human rights; environmental concerns; life as a visual artist; 21st century feudalism; progressive politics; aboriginal culture; new urbanism; permaculture; sustainable technology; non-traditional families; achievable utopias


yer host   online

Dear readers: I have moved to http://willbradyjournal2.blogspot.com
my websites
 • Short Notes [as of 2010 6/12]
 • Blogging about links
 • rondacker's livejournal diary
 • image gallery  • will brady's journal  • will's flikr photos
 • my rondak profile  • my blogger profile
sites I maintain
 • Moodus Sportsmen's Club
short notes' links
 • "short notes" archives  • Will's Web Links  • Will's Site Index
other links
 • my Artween page  • my Pandora music choices
anybody out there?
e-mail me:
will.brady@gmail.com

tools
Convert-Me.Com: Online Units Conversion / Metric conversions
 • Dictionary Search  • Babelfish Translations  • Other free translation services look below under "Reference" for more

since 12 june 1999

and still hand-coding
short notes: will bradys ruminations at Blogged
blogs I check in on
thought provoking reads - many I agree with, but not all.


POV
[my top of the list]
 • Charles Henry Eldridge Adirondack Native
 • Al Fin
 • Defective Yeti
 • Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus
 • Educate Yourself
 • Larry Barr / Rebel Wolf Online
 • Billy Miller's A Poor Wayfaring Stranger
 • Mike Power
 • Nightmare Hall
 • Nurse Ratchet's Place
 • Pam's House Blend
 • P Michaud
 • Pax Nortona
 • Path to Freedom
 • Clarke Lane
 • Ron's Log
 • Wood's Lot
 • Y Hate

[individual writers]

more personal
 • Al in the Country  • Curmudgeon Report  • Eramosa River Journal  • Frog Ponder  • H Kent Craig  • Dale Hobson  • Kestrel's Nest [now Twittering]  • Mickey Z  • Neurotwitch  • Other Stream  • Sarcastic Bastard  • Andrew Phelps  • Brenda's What's UP down South?

[personal/topical/news mix]
 • Angry Biscuit  • Kathryn Cramer  • Defective Yeti  • Something Completely Different  • UltraSparky

more topical/news oriented
 • Atypical Joe  • Charlie's Diary  • CT Blue  • Esoterically  • Feral Scholar  • Fouroboros  • Juan Cole's Informed Comment  • J-Walk Blog  • Happy Scrappy  • Obsidian Wings  • Pandagon  • Panopticist  • Space Coast Web  • Sphere  • Officialsay [stop sleeping]

more news than blog
 • Angry White Kid  • Corrente  • Plus... same gang, different material Corrente Wire  • Crooked Timber  • Current Era Blog  • Exiled Online  • Fire Dog Lake  • [in memory of Steve Gilliard] Group News Blog  • Digby's  • James Kunstler's ~ Clusterfuck Nation  • Le Speakeasy  • Mikhaela's News Blog  • No Quarter  • Stupid Enough Unexplanation  • This Modern World  • robot wisdom

cultural
 • Truck and Barter

science oriented
 • Tim Lambert's ~ Deltoid  • Greg Layden's Blog  • Mixing Memory  • PLoS ONE  • Space Coast Web  • Stuart Savory  • Verbumlogos

health + nutrition
 • Hakeem Alexander ~ Look again / Research  • Monika Woolsey ~ Nutritionist's Perspective  • John Crippen's ~ NHS Blog Doc | Great Britain  • Become Natural

writers + artists
 • Kathryn Cramer  • Eric Drooker  • Michael Nobbs  • Pound  • queer bohemian  • Spunk Library  • John Scalzi's ~ Whatever  • Wood's Lot  • UltraSparky

eclectic
 • Boing! Boing!  • Wilson's Almanac  • ZudFunk's Blogroll

not active - still online
 • Celebrity Cola  • F-Train  • Buzz Stuff  • John Strain  • Just an Inkling  • Love and Rage  • No Milk Today  • Querylily  • Rayz' Journal + Rants  • Unquiet Mind

gone - regrettably
 • Andrew Olmstead  • amnesia insurance  • Philipp Lenssen's Feeeds  • Moon of Alabama  • That Colored Fella  • V-2-dot-org


HEAR / OPINION

[news sources]
 • Aljazeera  • AlterNet  • Capitol Hill Blue  • Crooks & Liars  • Free Speech TV  • Focal Point  • The Gadflyer  • Google News  • CBC - Iceland Daily News  • Indymedia UK  • My Way  • New Left Media  • Now Public  • Official Wire  • Online Journal  • Plime  • Politico  • The Morning News  • Public Radio International  • The Raw Story  • Rense  • Indybay, San Francisco CA  • New Hampshire Gazette  • Sploid  • I am TRex  • World News Network

[publications / periodicals]
 • The Atlantic  • Countercurrents  • Counterpunch  • Fairness + Accuracy in Reporting  • The Economist  • The Guardian  • Human Nature Review  • Miller-McCune  • The Nation  • National Geographic  • The New Yorker  • Ode  • Seattle Post Intelligencer  • Truthout  • Pravda  • Public Eye  • Q News  • Village Voice  • The Wall Street Journal  • The Wilson Quarterly  • YES! Magazine  • Z Magazine

[internet radio / audio media]
 • Wilson Almanac's Radio Bandwidths
 • ABC - Australian Broadcast News  • BBC - British Broadcast News  • CBC - Canadian Broadcast News  • WAMC - Albany NY  • WPKN - Bridgeport CT

[media watch]
 • columbia journalism review  • Conservative Web Watch  • Dart Center - reporting on trauma & violence  • cjr's "Who Owns What"?  • Media Monitors Network  • Video Vote Vigil

[essays / critical thought sites]
 • AAAARG.ORG  • Edge  •   • Wood's Lot

[hyper-vigilant]
 • Counterterrorism Blog  • Cryptome  • Jerry Pippin

[information geeks]
 • The Agonist  • Grey Literature Report  • Resource Shelf

[commentary - left]
 • Scott Bidstrup  • Jim Hightower  • Noam Chomskey  • Orcinus  • Mike Palacek  • ratical.org  • Regressive Antidote  • Think Progress  • TPM Cafe
[commentary - in between]
 • Blogcritics.org  • Citizens for Legitimate Government  • Denis Horgan  • In The Fray  • Lawrence Lessig
[commentary - right]
 • American Prospect  • Kathleen Parker  • Andrew Sullivan  • Town Hall

[manifestos]
 • Abolition of Work
 • Class War
 • The Cluetrain Manifesto
 • Wark's A Hacker Manifesto
 • Earth Charter
 • A Call to Economic Justice
 • Orcinus' Media Revolt
 • Net Neutrality
 • Shrinking the Freedom of Thought
 • The Social Phenomenon of Blogs

[news as humor]
 • Cecil Adams' Straight Dope  • Mark Fiore's Fiore Blog  • Mikhaela Reid's Boiling Point ~ a News Blog  • Damn Interesting  • Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World  • Garry Trudeau's Doonsbury

[man bites dog / humor]
 • BuzzFlash  • College Humor  • The Onion  • The Daily Howler  • Morons  • Yankee Pot Roast

[gossip]
 • Gawker

COSMOS
[spirituality]
 • Council on Spiritual Practices  • Druid Journal  • The Equinox Project

[separation of faith + state]
 • Americans United for church-state separation


IN THE HEAD
[psychiatric hospitals - history]
 • POTN's Abandoned Hospitals

[first person account keepers]
 • Marian Goldstein's Different Thoughts  • Jim Gottstein  • Gianna Kali's Beyond Meds  • Kangaroo Court | Archives pre 1/1/05  • Mind Freedom's 1st Person Accounts  • Psychiatrized  • Psych Survivor Archives [CA]  • Songs of the Survivor

[psychiatric clients' rights]
 • Bazelon Center  • Center for Public Representation  • Dendron/MindFreedom
 • Law Project for Psych Rights  • U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

[info on psychotropics]
 • Ecologia Cognitiva | Portugese
 • Monika Woolsey ~ Nutritionist's Perspective

[self-help/recovery]
 • Freedom Center | Northampton, MA  • National Empowerment Center  • Copeland Center for Wellness + Recovery  • Natn'l MH Self Help Clearinghouse

[mental health info sites]
 • Mental Health Matters  • Psychiatric Drugs  • Ctr for Mental Health Services [USA]

[alternate views on treatment]
 • Peter Breggin  • John Grohol  • Hakeem Alexander's Hypno Athletics  • Hooper's Forensic Psychiatry


[health care reviewers]
 • Health Care Renewal

REGIONAL
[connecticut]
 • Connecticut Weblogs
[NYC metro]
 • Gothamist  • Bitter Queen's A History of Gay Bars in New York  • Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
[Southeast USA]
 • Southern Studies


LBGTF
news/opinion
 • Atypical Joe  • Pam Spaulding  • Andrew Sullivan  • Towlerroad  • Independent Gay Forum  • Michelangelo Signorile
media reviews
 • LBGT Books, Films & Videos
personal blogs
 • Brave Creatures  • Butch Jax  • Eramosa River Journal
erotic/adult content
 • Buff Tufftalk  • Drub

PLACE
 • Urban-ism  • we-make-money-not-art  • New Urbanism

COMMUNICATION + GRAPHIC DESIGN

[comment]
 • Dave Gray's Communication Nation  • Design Observer  • Jason King Design  • Mandarin Design  • Panopticist  • Speedbird

[html coding tools]
 • CSS Zen Garden  • Page Tutor's HTML Basics  • HTML special character codes  • Hex Hub's Color Codes
 • Page Tutor's 1536 Colors Chart

[typography tools]
 • DaFont's Free Downloadable Typefaces  • Linotype's Font Explorer X  • Typo Generator

[photography tools]
 • Photoshop Tips & Tricks

['zines]
 • foto 8  • JPG Magazine  • U & lc

[geek links]
 • Lee Fleming's Resources  • Software Tips & Tricks

VISUAL ARTS + ARTISTS

[art magazines + blogs]
 • Arts Journal  • Art News  • Art Knowledge News  • Issac Buie's The Simple Connoisseur  • Wood's Lot
[art supplies]
 • Dick Blick  • Jerry's Artarama  • Trekell & Co.  • Utrecht Art Supplies

[group sites]
 • Artween  • Concept Art  • Rational Painting

[collage]
 • J. Long's Die Mythographer!  • Judy Wise  • Toyen [Marie Cerminova]

[installation artists]
 • Hirokazu Fukawa  • Remy Jungerman

[interactive media]
 • Sébastien Chevrel

[painters / print makers / illustrators]
 • Eric Drooker | Painting / Illustration / Graphic Novels  • James Gurney | Landscape / Illustration  • Peter Hocking | Portraiture  • Gerard Huber | NeoClassical  • Rockwell Kent | Illustration / Painting / Social Comment  • Diego Rivera | Murals / Social Comment  • Jim Riccio | Painting / Illustration  • Street Anatomy | Medicine / Art / Design

[photographers]
 • Joey Lawrence  • Drasko Bogdanovic  • Chromisa  • Ian Grey  • Chad Kleitsch  • Ed Roppo's Rusty Jam

[sculpture]
 • Louise Bourgeois  • Alexander Calder  • Marisol Escobar  • Henry Moore  • Robert Rauschenberg  • George Segal  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens  • Gustav Vigeland

[street art]
 • Banksy  • Roadsworth  • Wooster Collective

[art centres]
 • I-Park

[arts marketers]
 • Zhibit.org

[intellectual property rights]
 • Creative Commons

ENERGY
[sustainability blogs]
 • Rebel Wolf's Energy Self- Sufficiency Newsletter
 • Watthead
 • 
 • 

GOV
 • World War 4 Report
 • Reason Public Policy Institute
 • State + Locals Govs

LAW
[legal resources]
 • EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers
 • FindLaw
 • Law.Com
 • Law Guru's Knowledge Base
 • JURIST: Legal Dictionary
 • regulations.gov
 • Scruffy's State Statutes
 • Univ of Houston's O'Quinn Law Library
 • A Public Defender

[law & philosphy]
 • distributive justice
 • DeNovo - Not active since early 2008
 • Legal Theory
 • Volokh Conspiracy

[intellectual property issues]
 • Creative Commons

[liberty interests]
 • The Agonist
 • American Civil Liberties Union
 • Canadian Civil Liberties Assn
 • Center for Democracy + Technology
 • Electronic Frontier Foundation
 • ALA's "Patriot" Act Updates

[rights concerns]
 • The Bill of Rights Institute
 • Center for Constitutional Rights
 • Human Rights Watch
 • People for the American Way
 • Prison Legal News
 • Southern Poverty Law Center
 • Stanford Center for Internet and Society

[rights of disabled persons]
 • Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
 • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
 • Mouth Magazine
 • Center for Public Representation
 • Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

[resources]
 • U.S. Hunting | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • U.S. Hunting | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • IAFAW Fishing + Hunting Permit Fees
 • U.S. National Wetlands Inventory | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • U.S. Bureau of Land Management | Department of Interior
 • U.S. National Park Service | Department of Interior

[archery/bowhunting]
 • Archery World
 • Bowsite
 • Bowhunting.net
 • Bowmasters
 • Bowyers & Fletchers Guild [UK]
 • Hunting Society's Archery Links
 • Principles of Archery
 • Primitive Archer

[firearms/hunting]
 • Firearms: Technical + Training Manuals

[outdoors/orienteering]
 • The Backpacker
 • Adirondack Hiking Trails
 • Go take a hike!


FREE TIME

[bodybuilding]
 • A to Z Fitness  • Amateur Wrestling News  • Better Body  • FitLike [UK]  • Testosterone Nation

[food]
 • He Said : She Said

[futuristics]
 • Future Scanner

[travel]
 • Travel Blogs [dot] org  • Hobo Traveler  • Lonely Planet  • Proper Course  • Sailing Anarchy  • VagaBlogging  • Where's Bender?

[urban spelunking]
 • Wikipedia describesp;Wi Urban Spelunking
 • Kelm + Rodenbaugh's Abandoned Missile Base
 • JAN JÖRNMARK Deserted Places
 • JAN JÖRNMARK Deserted Places

[other distractions]
 • Weirdsmobile

REFERENCE

   Dictionaries, Grammars,
   and other online language resources

[English Language]
 • Acronym Finder
 • Blogossary
 • One Look's Dictionary Search
 • Etymological Dictionary
 • JURIST: Legal Dictionary
 • Slang City Dictionary
 • Word Spy "The word lover's guide to new words
 • Thesaurus
[Other Languages]
 • Jennifer's Language Page

[Literature]
 • Indeterminacy
 • Poem Hunter

[encyclopedae, etc]
 • About
 • CIA World Factbook
 • RefDesk
 • Project Gutenberg
 • Project Gutenberg - 2004
 • Nation Master [stats]
 • Questia
 • Wikipedia

[atlases, maps]
 • Digital Topo Maps
 • U S Census Bureau Maps
 • USGS Land and Map

[documents]
 • Bill O'Rights
 • Magna Carta
 • Unversal Declaration of Human Rights

[Postal Codes]
 • Canadian Postal Codes
 • International Postal Codes
 • USA Zip Codes
 • Universal Postal Union

[weather]
 • Foote's Forecasts
 • NOAA National Weather Service | USA
 • Weather Channel
 • The Weather Underground

[Weights and Measures]
 • Measurement Conversion Charts
 • RefDesk's Weights and Measures Resources

[translators]
 • Bablefish Translation Service
 • IM's Online Translation Portal
 • 
 • 

NOTE: Every effort is made to credit the source of images displayed on
this site | Images with no attribution are either my own (and covered under a
Creative Commons non-commercial agreement
or I have been unable to determine the source of the image |
As such, it is duly noted anyway |

ARCHIVES
2004/01/04 - 2004/01/11 / 2004/01/11 - 2004/01/18 / 2004/02/15 - 2004/02/22 / 2004/02/22 - 2004/02/29 / 2004/02/29 - 2004/03/07 / 2004/03/07 - 2004/03/14 / 2004/03/14 - 2004/03/21 / 2004/03/21 - 2004/03/28 / 2004/03/28 - 2004/04/04 / 2004/04/04 - 2004/04/11 / 2004/04/11 - 2004/04/18 / 2004/04/18 - 2004/04/25 / 2004/04/25 - 2004/05/02 / 2004/05/02 - 2004/05/09 / 2004/05/09 - 2004/05/16 / 2004/05/16 - 2004/05/23 / 2004/05/23 - 2004/05/30 / 2004/05/30 - 2004/06/06 / 2004/06/06 - 2004/06/13 / 2004/06/13 - 2004/06/20 / 2004/06/20 - 2004/06/27 / 2004/06/27 - 2004/07/04 / 2004/07/04 - 2004/07/11 / 2004/07/11 - 2004/07/18 / 2004/07/18 - 2004/07/25 / 2004/07/25 - 2004/08/01 / 2004/08/01 - 2004/08/08 / 2004/08/08 - 2004/08/15 / 2004/08/15 - 2004/08/22 / 2004/08/22 - 2004/08/29 / 2004/08/29 - 2004/09/05 / 2004/09/05 - 2004/09/12 / 2004/09/12 - 2004/09/19 / 2004/09/19 - 2004/09/26 / 2004/09/26 - 2004/10/03 / 2004/10/03 - 2004/10/10 / 2004/10/10 - 2004/10/17 / 2004/10/17 - 2004/10/24 / 2004/10/24 - 2004/10/31 / 2004/10/31 - 2004/11/07 / 2004/11/07 - 2004/11/14 / 2004/11/14 - 2004/11/21 / 2004/11/21 - 2004/11/28 / 2004/11/28 - 2004/12/05 / 2004/12/05 - 2004/12/12 / 2004/12/12 - 2004/12/19 / 2004/12/19 - 2004/12/26 / 2004/12/26 - 2005/01/02 / 2005/01/02 - 2005/01/09 / 2005/01/09 - 2005/01/16 / 2005/01/16 - 2005/01/23 / 2005/01/23 - 2005/01/30 / 2005/01/30 - 2005/02/06 / 2005/02/06 - 2005/02/13 / 2005/02/13 - 2005/02/20 / 2005/02/20 - 2005/02/27 / 2005/02/27 - 2005/03/06 / 2005/03/06 - 2005/03/13 / 2005/03/13 - 2005/03/20 / 2005/03/20 - 2005/03/27 / 2005/03/27 - 2005/04/03 / 2005/04/03 - 2005/04/10 / 2005/04/10 - 2005/04/17 / 2005/04/17 - 2005/04/24 / 2005/04/24 - 2005/05/01 / 2005/05/01 - 2005/05/08 / 2005/05/08 - 2005/05/15 / 2005/05/15 - 2005/05/22 / 2005/05/22 - 2005/05/29 / 2005/05/29 - 2005/06/05 / 2005/06/05 - 2005/06/12 / 2005/06/12 - 2005/06/19 / 2005/06/19 - 2005/06/26 / 2005/06/26 - 2005/07/03 / 2005/07/03 - 2005/07/10 / 2005/07/10 - 2005/07/17 / 2005/07/17 - 2005/07/24 / 2005/07/24 - 2005/07/31 / 2005/07/31 - 2005/08/07 / 2005/08/14 - 2005/08/21 / 2005/08/21 - 2005/08/28 / 2005/08/28 - 2005/09/04 / 2005/09/04 - 2005/09/11 / 2005/09/11 - 2005/09/18 / 2005/09/18 - 2005/09/25 / 2005/09/25 - 2005/10/02 / 2005/10/02 - 2005/10/09 / 2005/10/09 - 2005/10/16 / 2005/10/16 - 2005/10/23 / 2005/10/23 - 2005/10/30 / 2005/10/30 - 2005/11/06 / 2005/11/06 - 2005/11/13 / 2005/11/20 - 2005/11/27 / 2005/11/27 - 2005/12/04 / 2005/12/04 - 2005/12/11 / 2005/12/11 - 2005/12/18 / 2005/12/18 - 2005/12/25 / 2005/12/25 - 2006/01/01 / 2006/01/01 - 2006/01/08 / 2006/01/08 - 2006/01/15 / 2006/01/15 - 2006/01/22 / 2006/01/22 - 2006/01/29 / 2006/01/29 - 2006/02/05 / 2006/02/05 - 2006/02/12 / 2006/02/12 - 2006/02/19 / 2006/02/19 - 2006/02/26 / 2006/02/26 - 2006/03/05 / 2006/03/05 - 2006/03/12 / 2006/03/12 - 2006/03/19 / 2006/03/19 - 2006/03/26 / 2006/03/26 - 2006/04/02 / 2006/04/09 - 2006/04/16 / 2006/04/16 - 2006/04/23 / 2006/04/30 - 2006/05/07 / 2006/05/07 - 2006/05/14 / 2006/05/21 - 2006/05/28 / 2006/07/30 - 2006/08/06 / 2006/08/06 - 2006/08/13 / 2006/08/13 - 2006/08/20 / 2006/08/20 - 2006/08/27 / 2006/08/27 - 2006/09/03 / 2006/09/03 - 2006/09/10 / 2006/09/10 - 2006/09/17 / 2006/09/17 - 2006/09/24 / 2006/10/08 - 2006/10/15 / 2006/10/15 - 2006/10/22 / 2006/10/22 - 2006/10/29 / 2006/11/05 - 2006/11/12 / 2006/11/12 - 2006/11/19 / 2006/11/19 - 2006/11/26 / 2006/12/03 - 2006/12/10 / 2006/12/10 - 2006/12/17 / 2006/12/31 - 2007/01/07 / 2007/01/07 - 2007/01/14 / 2007/01/21 - 2007/01/28 / 2007/02/04 - 2007/02/11 / 2007/02/11 - 2007/02/18 / 2007/02/18 - 2007/02/25 / 2007/02/25 - 2007/03/04 / 2007/04/01 - 2007/04/08 / 2007/04/08 - 2007/04/15 / 2007/04/15 - 2007/04/22 / 2007/04/22 - 2007/04/29 / 2007/05/06 - 2007/05/13 / 2007/05/20 - 2007/05/27 / 2007/05/27 - 2007/06/03 / 2007/06/10 - 2007/06/17 / 2007/06/17 - 2007/06/24 / 2007/06/24 - 2007/07/01 / 2007/07/01 - 2007/07/08 / 2007/07/08 - 2007/07/15 / 2007/07/22 - 2007/07/29 / 2007/07/29 - 2007/08/05 / 2007/11/04 - 2007/11/11 / 2007/11/18 - 2007/11/25 / 2007/11/25 - 2007/12/02 / 2007/12/09 - 2007/12/16 / 2007/12/16 - 2007/12/23 / 2007/12/23 - 2007/12/30 / 2007/12/30 - 2008/01/06 / 2008/01/06 - 2008/01/13 / 2008/01/13 - 2008/01/20 / 2008/01/27 - 2008/02/03 / 2008/02/10 - 2008/02/17 / 2008/02/17 - 2008/02/24 / 2008/04/13 - 2008/04/20 / 2008/05/11 - 2008/05/18 / 2008/05/18 - 2008/05/25 / 2008/05/25 - 2008/06/01 / 2008/06/01 - 2008/06/08 / 2008/06/08 - 2008/06/15 / 2008/06/15 - 2008/06/22 / 2008/06/22 - 2008/06/29 / 2008/06/29 - 2008/07/06 / 2008/07/20 - 2008/07/27 / 2008/08/03 - 2008/08/10 / 2008/08/31 - 2008/09/07 / 2008/11/02 - 2008/11/09 / 2008/11/09 - 2008/11/16 / 2008/11/16 - 2008/11/23 / 2008/12/07 - 2008/12/14 / 2008/12/21 - 2008/12/28 / 2008/12/28 - 2009/01/04 / 2009/01/11 - 2009/01/18 / 2009/01/18 - 2009/01/25 / 2009/02/01 - 2009/02/08 / 2009/02/08 - 2009/02/15 / 2009/02/15 - 2009/02/22 / 2009/02/22 - 2009/03/01 / 2009/03/08 - 2009/03/15 / 2009/03/22 - 2009/03/29 / 2009/03/29 - 2009/04/05 / 2009/04/05 - 2009/04/12 / 2009/04/12 - 2009/04/19 / 2009/04/19 - 2009/04/26 / 2009/04/26 - 2009/05/03 / 2009/07/26 - 2009/08/02 / 2009/08/23 - 2009/08/30 / 2009/08/30 - 2009/09/06 / 2009/09/06 - 2009/09/13 / 2009/09/13 - 2009/09/20 / 2009/09/20 - 2009/09/27 / 2009/10/04 - 2009/10/11 / 2009/10/18 - 2009/10/25 / 2009/10/25 - 2009/11/01 / 2009/11/08 - 2009/11/15 / 2009/11/15 - 2009/11/22 / 2009/11/22 - 2009/11/29 / 2009/11/29 - 2009/12/06 / 2009/12/27 - 2010/01/03 / 2010/01/03 - 2010/01/10 / 2010/01/24 - 2010/01/31 / 2010/06/06 - 2010/06/13 /


Powered by Blogger


eXTReMe Tracker
Blogcritics: news and reviews


Society Blog Directory
since 12 june 1999   This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours? Blogarama - The Blog Directory Listed on Blogwise Listed on BlogShares Weblog Commenting and Trackback by HaloScan.com www.BloodForOil.org Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.