Lawrence Lessig recently posted this calm, engaging presentation on his site: 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog).

I’d like to add a note or two…

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I’ll be the first to admit that I can fall for hype. Not more than most people, I’d say, but I know I can do it.
But when it comes to politics, it’s very hard to believe any hype at all. I’m terribly jaded about it.
I’m voting for Obama in spite of the hype. […]

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Without going into a lot of detail about it (no time!) I wanted to quote from this article discussing the ideas of Jonathan Haidt. It’s actually supposed to be a review of George Lakoff’s writing on political language, but it gets further into Haidt’s ideas and research as a better alternative. He’s not so kind […]

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I haven’t been doing much political posting here for a while, in the interest of trying to keep a user-experience design focus, for the most part.
But things are getting weirder and weirder in this land of ours. Or, at least, it’s becoming more clear how weird it’s been for quite a while.
I think […]

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Fascinating post in Danger Room about a new War College research paper explains that insurgencies aren’t even a species of conventional warfare, but very different. Definitely check out the post, but here’s an interesting tidbit:
…the dynamics of contemporary insurgency are more like a violent and competitive market than war in the traditional sense where […]

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Stunning article.
The last paragraph:
The New York Review of Books: A Country Ruled by Faith
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. […]

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I was looking for the verification of a quotation from Billy Graham (evidently it was in a David Frost interview in 1997) where he says, “We’re not a Christian Country. We’ve never been a Christian Country. We’re a secular Country, by our constitution. In which Christians live and which many Christians have a voice. But […]

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I’m a big believer that money talks and bs walks. I used to be more idealistic: that money wasn’t everything, and that (outside of very healthy friendships and family relationships) how someone values you wasn’t necessarily dependent on the money they were willing to give you or trust you with.
But the older I get, […]

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HBS prof and Enterprise 2.0 thinker/blogger Andrew McAfee back in July, commenting on the implications of people being fired for what they say on personal blogs or otherwise (as in the Axsmith case).
Andrew McAfee
Smart organizations will accept and embrace the fact that Enterprise 2.0 tools will be used to voice dissent within the community. […]

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First of all, I have to admit, it’s kind of fun to watch the Republican House chewing away at its own extremeties trying to free itself from the bear (elephant?) traps it’s found itself in since the weekend. Schadenfreude indeed.
But this story (here’s a bit of it, but pieces of it keep coming out […]

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Why on earth are more people not completely gobstoppered over the fact that we have an administration that is PRO-TORTURE.
Let me say that again … “Pro-Torture”…
If this were a movie, it’d be a very very dark political satire. Imagine the storyline if a political party got into power and continued (as everything else […]

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