Netroots

Blog Fast

by John Hamilton Farr on July 18, 2007 · 13 comments

in Blogs, Netroots, Personal

For reasons previously stated, I have declared a week-long during which time I will neither read nor visit ANY political blogs or news sites, nor will I post anything here on any subject whatsoever. A week from today I will report on what (if any) changes I observe over the next seven days and where [...]

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Whack-a-Mole

by John Hamilton Farr on July 16, 2007 · 2 comments

in Blogs, History, Netroots, Personal, Spirit, Taos, War

What a tense Monday. Why was today so hard to pull out of the hat? I went grocery shopping with my wife this morning. At first she intended to go by herself the way she always does, but I felt puppy dog guilty and said I wanted to go, too — the rationale being that [...]

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Difficult Circumstances

by John Hamilton Farr on July 3, 2007 · 0 comments

in Art, Blogs, Earth, History, Netroots, Personal, politics, Spirit, War, Writing

[Extensively edited & revised] (Little of what follows will be easy to write, but I’ll try to keep it short. In the end, I will fail.) I received most of my political education while attending the University of Texas in the ’60s. Early on I marched to desegregate a local bar, and later on I [...]

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Don't Subscribe, Don't Read, Don't Watch

by John Hamilton Farr on February 27, 2007 · 17 comments

in Blogs, Netroots, Personal, politics

[Some good comments on this one...] I see over at TPM Cafe that Larry Johnson has canceled his subscription to the Washington Post. Well, it’s about time. The main preoccupations of the progressive blogosphere seem to be a) electing Democrats, and b) pointing out the propaganda and distortions of the so-called mainstream media. Of the [...]

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Six Hours of Teevee

by John Hamilton Farr on November 8, 2006 · 2 comments

in Netroots, Personal, politics

I cannot believe Chris Matthews has never been the subject of an on-the-air intervention. And that’s the least of it. It’s been years since I sat through crap like MSNBC and CNN, and frankly, the shallowness and inability of virtually all newspeople, commentators, and incumbent politicos to reason beyond their prejudices is simply staggering. That [...]

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