CarbonMike
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About Me
I'm a musician, software engineer, teacher, hacker, political junkie, and all-around troublemaker. Religion? I'm an agnostic slash radical humanist. Books? science, technical manuals, history, and hard sci-fi/spec-fi.
Smart, creative people who don't necessarily agree with me but have something worthwhile to say.
I'm studying for my pilot's license, trying to get a film school off the ground, and trying to write the Great American Software Application
Guitars. Computing. The history of science. Architecture. Filmmaking. Disruptive technology.
Songs with darkness and night-time in them.
These days I'm reading Charles Stross, Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks (get your Culture on), Peter Watts, Bruce Sterling for my fiction fix. Nonfiction-wise I'm all into Thomas P.M. Barnett at the moment (like Tom Friedman but without the pom-poms and with better one-liners)
"The fastest way to achieve success is to double your failure rate"
-- Thomas J. Watson
-- Thomas J. Watson
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- added masaca as a SodaHead. 2 days ago
- added texas_democrat_06 as a SodaHead. 2 days ago
- left 2 comments on blog Critics of Health Care Reform do Care Abo... 2 days ago
- 4 replies to question Does 0.25% of a population constitute "Di... November 12, 2009 06:19:13
- left 3 comments on blog The Af-Pak War: What Winning Or Losing Me... November 11, 2009 22:55:03
- added lady in red ~ VETERAN'S DAUGHTER ~ as a SodaHead. November 11, 2009 19:32:02
- left 7 comments on blog An Honest Question(?) from a Conservative... November 11, 2009 17:25:05
- added blog The Af-Pak War: What Winning Or Losing Me... November 10, 2009 04:25:47
- added Jayde as a SodaHead. November 09, 2009 16:50:41
- added K as a SodaHead. November 08, 2009 15:17:36
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+2 raves I think your premise is essentially correct, even though I disagree with your evaluation of the l... I think your premise is essentially correct, even though I disagree with your evaluation of the likely outcome of HCR (no surprise there I'm sure!)
I also think that "you're a critic of reform, therefore you don't care about people" can be a counterproductive argument for us liberals to make, because it takes an operational discussion and ratchets it up to a moral knifefight. If our goal is to convince people -- or to evaluate the quality of their ideas in good faith -- there's no sense getting their backs up right out of the gate.
On the other hand, certain policy issues should be moral knifefights, and no one should shy away from those. Desegregation and universal suffrage are two from American history that I can think of offhand.
That implies an interesting question: is health care an economic issue or a moral issue? Where (and more importantly, how) should we make that distinction in political thought? (more)
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The Wife
justmehere
Thanks for the invite
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sugarbuzz
My daughter ended up with a major in Film and Video and Political Science. Out in the real world now, she worked a bit for the slavery that is Disney...and then found a real job that pays and has benefits. She is still in Orlando, however, which isn't true reality.
Keep after your dream, you have the right stuff!
Sookie
No, no. Thanks for posting. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you. Thanks for the request! :)
Diane
Thanks for the add, Mike. We will have to play chess sometime. :)
squid
They do say that steel sharpeneth steel right? En guard!!! ;)
squid
The y do say that steel sharpeneth steel right! En guard!
Joseph E....
MIke! Happy to add you as an intelligent Liberal to be my friend. Thanks for the invitation. See ya in the blogs.
MO.gal
Hello, MIke! Happy to add you as a friend. An intelligent Liberal is always welcome to be my friend.
melly~I'm...
Thanks for the add.
atmer
Hey Mike! Welcome to Sodahead... we can always use intelligent liberals!
The Wife
Hope your day is going well!
Johnny-O
Good to know you, my friend...
Legion™
Sissy said the nicest thing to me, but I had to give you credit, since your blog has to be what prompted her kind words, and I quote:
"Just wanted to add what a great job you're doing with the Blogs your putting up Legion. You are everything that I came on SodaHead for, not to diss, dismiss, fight but to have sensible, thoughtful discourse from all sides. I always feel bad when I come across the insults of an opposing opinion because I get too often thoroughly ticked and jump into a fray with like-minded charges.
I try to walk away from such non-thinking vitrol and I'm getting better.....not quite there yet, but I try.
Have a wonderful day and as I have both respectful and equally concerned Friends from the Right who feel like I do, I will keep my fingers crossed that they will join in."
Sigh... I shoulda just said "thank you", LOL, but you're doing a great job, bro - I'm glad you're here.
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Lotus Flower
You are the bomb!
Legion™
I shared your first blog out, and I'll promote it in the politics forum and mention it in the chain mail as well. Expect some traffic and some friend requests.
What's your take on reimplementing this? Screw around with "Customize your profile" and once you get a few friends, keep an eye on them in your dashboard.