Clockwise
1. From Raising Kaine, quoting a New York Times editorial titled “On Torture and American Values”:
Only with justice will we once again prove that we are a nation of laws and morality, one where nobody can get away with what the Bush administration has (so far) gotten away with.
2. Congratulations to Vice President Gore. From the Boston Globe, Gore’s Nobel Prize marks severity of global warming:
If the Academy Award didn’t get the world to heed Al Gore on the threat of global warming, maybe the Nobel Prize will.
3. I have no idea if this is accurate or a pile of crap, but you can see if you’re right-brained or left-brained by whether you see the dancer spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise. I am Mister Right-Brain. Which, being an artist, is expected, but I’ve always thought I was more left-brained in some ways. But she’s totally spinning clockwise - I can’t make her go the other way even if I want to.
4. I updated some of the pics on the snapshots page.
5. Remind me again - why does Tim McCarver have to exist?
6. You can sense when the cannibals are getting hungry. Also from Raising Kaine, Robert Novak Accuses Republicans of Larry Craig Coverup:
That’s right, just as with Mark Foley, the Republicans knew about Larry Craig but covered it up. Again, bear in mind that this is the self-professed “family values” party. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.
7. Here in Charlottesville, there have been two women (one of whom is my friend Jen Tidwell) protesting Sacagawea’s depiction in a famous local statue. The protesters argue that, given her important role in the Lewis and Clark expedition, Sacagawea’s crouching in the back of the statue amounts to second-class treatment. Others have said that the depiction is one of her “tracking, not cowering”. My take on the arrangement of the figures is that it would be hard to track for your party when you’re essentially hiding in the back, behind the famous white guys. Of course, there are bigger things to worry about in this world and in this town, but I have to agree that it would have been nice to have given this brave woman a little better treatment.
An older pic I took of the Sac-Babe a couple of years ago:
Hi, I found your post about Al Gore and the Stanford climate scientists through technorati.com.
If you support Al Gore’s efforts, you may want to consider becoming a part of draftgore.com ’s petition to encourage him to join the presidential race.
Now, I’m a am a fairly pragmatic person. I certainly don’t believe in throwing my vote, my money, or my time away. But the movement to draft Al Gore has gained serious attention in just the last few days. Its members recently put a full page ad in the NY Times, encouraging Gore to enter the race. The draftgore movement was also enthusiastically supported on AirAmerica recently, and numerous articles about the article were recently released in major newspapers nationwide. The day *before* Al Gore won the Nobel, draftgore.com’s web traffic statistics were nearly as high as Hillaryclinton.com — see alexa.com for details — and Gore recently beat her in several state’s opinion polls.
This movement is taking off very, very quickly, because it seems to resonate with many, many people who feel that “none of the above” is the best choice. Al Gore can be your next President… but please consider this — the time for showing your loud, vocal, open support for Al Gore to run for President is NOW, while he’s got the world’s attention and while he still has time to enter the race and raise funds. Not tomorrow. Not next week. NOW.
If the public loudly encourages him to run now, while he’s at his peak, he’ll grab the attention of the world’s media… and all that attention and free publicity could help carry Al Gore all the way to the White House. Even if he loses, his cause and the issues he stands for will win, as Hillary Clinton would be forced to make equally strong proposals to combat global warming.
Ultimately, Draftgore is going to get so big as to require Gore to either step up, or politely yet firmly refuse. Either way, it’s going to increase Gore’s ability to bring about positive change in this country, and its a good way to say thanks for all his efforts.
If you’d like to show your support, please visit draftgore.com and sign the petition to add your voice to the over 160,000 people who have already done so. Take the time to post about draftgore.com on your site and let others know. If you have a bit of free time, offer to volunteer. If you can spare a few bucks, please send them a donation. It’s easy and painless… you can even use PayPal.
(Can you tell I’m excited yet?!)
Best -
Mark Kraft
http://insomnia.livejournal.com
Comment by Mark Kraft — Friday, 12 October, 2007 @ 10:51 pm