Archive for June, 2004

They’re Getting Older, But That Just Means: Legal Age!

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

Next Harry Potter installment has official title: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. No sign of when it’ll be finished, though. The movies are not only taking longer to make, but even worse, J.K. Rowling can’t keep up with their pace. If the movie series is to be finished, I have [...]

Catholics For Kerry

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

Vatican endorses Kerry. OK, not really. But if you’re Catholic, be advised, the Vatican says (a) abortion is NOT the only important issue politically, and (b) voters are free to support pro-choice politicians as long as they are proportionately good on other Church priorities.

Summer Books, Sweat In Your Eyes

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

Forty Signs Of Rain review … and another one…
Kim Stanley Robinson remains my favorite author. His newest novel isn’t quite science fiction so much as fiction about science and its relation to society. Sure, it takes place a few years in the future, and as it picks up the pace at the end, [...]

Class Conflict Is Alive And Well

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

In my second favorite author Ken Macleod’s blog, he makes an entry titled Surveying Information Age Warfare, in which he comments on how the 21st century is likely to go, how no socialist revolution has been a proletariat revolution and no proletariat revolution has been a socialist revolution, how there are increasing numbers of proletariat [...]

Something To Ponder

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

From a comment in this diary entry on Daily Kos
It’s so bizarre to me how liberals have gone off on this extended “we don’t need patriotism” kick since the 1960s.
This country was a radical, liberal nation at its inception. The idea that a monarchy was unneeded, and that the people could govern [...]