More from Joel Hirschhorn…

...This guy is the type `o person I will be contacting about the proposed dialogD agenda and means for working towards achieving such an agenda as I move forward with my efforts to advocate just that. This link http://www.counterpunch.org/hirschhorn11102007.html is to an article about the general state of the two party collaboration in business and politics as usual and http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com/ is a book promoting site for his book entitled, oddly enough, Delusional Democracy.

Toward a 2nd American Revolution...

Throughout dialogD there are calls for deep and profound change and re-democratization of all aspects of American politics, economics, culture, education, and society as a whole. This article http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0213-02.htm by Joel S. Hirshhorn makes a similar call…

Thinkin’ `bout blogs and blogging all my way down the road…

…Blogs have become so pervasive yet misunderstood that I feel the need to explain my own approach to why I am doing it my own self these days. I don’t want to get into a bunch of definitions or recount the history of blogs- although there are plenty of books on blogging out there now that do that and more.

I’ll just say that from the political side to what I want to do and be involved with the best resource I have found is Aaron Barlow’s The Rise of the Blogosphere, in which he describes and gives credence to blogging as already being and having considerable potential to become even more so the “New Free Advocacy and Organizing Press”. Barlow compares the new partisan bloggers as being the modern day parallels to the pamphleteers of Revolutionary Era America. Or as I like to aspire: to the Tom Payne’s and Sam Adam’s… to the real Democrats of that time.

That said, as I try to work past the kinks of my own getting started and eventually immersed in all of what my blogging and related Web Presence can become, I also can say that as a lifelong semi aspiring and yet uncommitted occasional writer the Internet in general and Blogging in particular have certainly created a new avenue to get around traditional gatekeepers and turned anyone who wants to into combination writer-editor-publisher with the click of a mouse or touch on a touch pad. As many would point out- with mixed results and varying kinds of quality and trustworthiness.

So I admit it: for now I am simply bypassing the traditional gatekeepers to me trying to “be a writer” and go forward as an admitted and proud to be partisan in the ongoing quest for “ a more perfect union,” or a greatly improved and perhaps almost revolutionarily transformed American Democracy. For more specifics on this see:
http://dialogdemocracy.org/old_epgtds_defined_ffmission_statement.htm

Laying low and working on www.dialogdemocracy.org for a few days...

...but I am also just checking out how Explorer works away from the nightmare that my home internet connection has become. Did anyone see the interview of John McCain flinching during an interview when the reporter questioning him gestured with his hands for effect while asking his question? I really think, with all the other issues being equal, that, protests about how young and fit and virile this guy tries to present himself that he is simply too freaking old to be President and that his candidacy is him "taking one for the team" and that should he happen to win he will just be the front man for the Cheney-Sonnie Dubbies Neocons who will remain highly operative in a next Republican Administration. Be very wary of the VP selection at the Re-Pube convention. It could be very telling about how serious the concerns at the highest levels of the Re-Pube leadership are about McCains health, competence, and likelihood of being genuinely "in charge" of a New Neocon Administration.