Hillary Hates Activists

Another word for citizen is: Activist.

But for Hillary, activist is a term of derogation, doing much damage to her candidacy. Celeste Fremon breaks the story at Huffington Post.

Blasting Democratic activists will not play well in the Democratic primary.

At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the "activist base" of the Democratic Party -- and MoveOn.org in particular -- for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had "flooded" state caucuses and "intimidated" her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The Huffington Post.

Listen to the audio below at The Huffington Post. Never complain, never explain; Hillary has been busted complaining big-time.

Norman Mailer Dies: His Writing Added Truth and Vigor

"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
- Norman Mailer [Advertisements for Myself (1959)]

For millions of Iraqis, Mailer's observation ought to include every passively compliant American citizen, not just WASPs.

Peace and justice writer Norman Mailer died at 84 early today.

I'll have a drink to him today. I'll do something towards justice for him in my life.

And I'll never forget his The Armies of the Night, Mailer's brilliant and good-humored account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon that brought to the fore the obscene, bullshit Vietnam War. Mailer's portrayal of peace lovers is loving, funny and insightful, just like the man.

Whenever someone like Mailer dies, and we lost some brilliant and generous minds these past few months, I think of George W. Bush and how much I despise the lying bastard and his bullshit wars that none of us can ever do enough to resist and reverse.

- The Nation: Norman Mailer--The Good Father (Katrina vanden Heuvel)

- The Nation: Norman Mailer Brawled With Bush to the Bitter End (by John Nichols)

- The Independent: The electric-haired gladiator of American letters (by David Usborne)

- The New York Times' CHARLES McGRATH on Mailer

- Irish Times on Mailer

- The Guardian, Norman Mailer: Death of an Icon

- Reuters: Mailer -- Towering Figure of U.S. Literature

- Time: Why Norman Mailer Mattered (by RICHARD LACAYO)

- Telegraph (UK): Tributes pour in for Norman Mailer (by Philip Sherwell in New York and Julie Henry)

- Chicago Tribune: A tough-nosed novelist (by Julia Keller)

- Paul Krassner: Remembering Norman Mailer

Mailer despised lies about War: The intrinsic lie of governments through history. To honor Mailer's passing: Robert Parry's Bush Favorite Lie.
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Ecological Activism Blooms at Ecological Internet

Madison, WI—Merge environmental activism, info technology expertise, and deep ecological values, and you have the website Ecological Internet.

It is the brainchild of Glen Barry, Ph.D., a lifelong Wisconsinite from Denmark, WI, and former UW-Madison botanical information systems specialist in the Dept. of Botany.

A critical environmental portal, the site “specializes in the use of the Internet to achieve environmental conservation outcomes,” writes Barry.

The academic community is abundantly aware of the net’s potential for environmental activism, and collectively the literature on the net’s use in grassroots organizing sounds near-manic.

“(T)he political implications of the Internet’s effects are truly staggering … the Internet has fostered the metamorphosis of environmental politics from the pursuit of broad, national polices to a populist grassroots crusade …,” wrote Norman Millier in Environmental Politics: Interest Groups, the Media and the Making of Policy.

Miller is right. And Glen Barry is proving it in the real world at Ecological Internet.
Read about its successes, analysis and hard-core activism—truly fascinating stuff.

If you have even a passing interest in saving the environment, please check out Ecological Internet.

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