Just sitting around listening to a little toad the wet sproket. Dulcinea. We watched Canadian Idol and were talking about why the girl who got the most votes was so good, and I thought about how its easy to underestimate the power of sadness to connect and make an audience, the public, feel love. No [...]

There has been new evidence now for what many have been claiming since the war in iraq started- that contracts for the reconstruction have been given without any kind of proper competitive process. This article describes the allegations against Halliburton subsidiary KBR. key quote: “I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to contracts awarded [...]

wierd. this is wierd. i’ve been writing on Open and on the forums for a year altogether, but writing a blog is a completely different thing. i have a few articles lined up to link here and blab about, but what i’ve been stuck on is the introductory statement. That always used to get me [...]