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]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=445 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=444 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=443 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=442 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=441 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=439 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=438 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=437 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=436 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=435 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=433 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=432 But something has furthered this feeling of global citizenry during my last trip and reinforced today. I know that part of it is because of the technologies involved in both travel and communication and how easy it is to move both your body and your communications around the globe.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=431 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=430 Andrisky Church It takes becoming regular in certain places and along certain routes to recognize the patterns that teach about a place. There is no doubt that even a short visit like this can teach one about one’s self but to really learn a plus you must find a rhythm or a path and stay in it for a time. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=429 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=428 The last time I was in Kyiv, I was treated to winter. This time I am here as winter turns to spring, and more than any other part of the year in seasonal places I love this moment. The moment when out from under the cold and often dark tones of winter peeks the most tender moments in nature. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=427 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=426 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=425 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=424 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=422 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=423 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=421 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=420 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=419 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=418 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=417 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=416 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=414 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=413 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=409 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=412 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=408 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=407 green link]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=406 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=405 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=404 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=403 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=402 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=400 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=399 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=398 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=397 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=396 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=394 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=393 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=391 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=390 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=392 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=389 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=388 - Grandma just called and said you're supposed to go home. - She didn't tell me anything. - Too bad, she said she doesn't want you here when she gets back because you've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak. - I'm not goin' anywhere, Napoleon. - Get off my property! - It's a free country. I can do whatever I want. - Get off my property or I'll call the cops on you. - Well then do it! Go on! - Maybe I will, GOSH!]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=387 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=385 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=384 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=383 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=380 Score one for intelligence in public education. Today a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled teaching so-called "intelligent design" in the classroom violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. In his ruling, the judge said "Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom" and "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom." Are ID proponents the next Dodos?]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=382 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/1515212]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=381 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=379 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=378 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=377
As the Holiday Season comes upon us and we think of all we are blessed with, we should realize we have more to be thankful for than ever. Normally at this time of year we’d be celebrating just one immaculate conception: that of Jesus Christ. But this year, we get to celebrate not only Baby Jesus, but Baby Cruise as well.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=376 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=375 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=373 911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration Article on 911 commission report card ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=371 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=369 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=368 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=366 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=367 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=365 don't worry...there's more...click here]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=364 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=363 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=360 Think this says it? ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=359 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=358 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=357 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=356 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=355
Bukowski Understood "Poetry Readings." The pretension, the urge to destroy the poet through selfish shortcomings. Well, here I took three readings by Charles and remixed them into one piece. Henry Chinaski took no shit at poetry readings. Listen in.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=354 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=353 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=350 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=351 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=349 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=348 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=347 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=338 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=324 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=346 "If I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus," wrote Parks. "I was tired of giving in."]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=344 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=343 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=342 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=337 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=341 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=336 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=333 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=332 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=330 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=280 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=323 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=322 ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=321 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=320 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=319 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=317 I am doing the recap of our adventures in installments. I will republish it all as one peice when finished, but for those of you on the edge of your seats, I figured I would give it to you as I finish it in amidst the business of being back.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=316 Is there no stopping Bush from trashing this country?]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=315 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=314
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Stay agitated!





]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=137 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=138 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=184 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=190 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=185 When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. - Henry David Thoreau

Now this is just about the most encouraging thing I have heard. If this is a time of recreating ourselves as Marc suggested in his blog and as Mr. Thoreau points to in this quote - well then I am encouraged.
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=139 There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.- Plato
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=140 Dear President Bush:

Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually,
we're a bit ticked off here in California, so we're leaving you.
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Does everyone notice a theme here? Things are remaining pretty intense for all of us. This weekend I had the privilege to attend a the Green Festival http://www.greenfestivals.com/ that was focused on the revolution at hand. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=143
I want to rush towards optimism - as I always do. And yes in the heart of this experience I do find light � the same light I always find. The light that lives in the hearts of those close to me and connects one to the other in love � so much beauty, so much goodness. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=144
One has to question the nature of change when one sees such things as this. It shapes thoughts about progressive change. It would be interested to see various issues plotted against this map.
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=145 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=146 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=126 Voting Irregularities

funny - http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/Voting_Machine_1.wmv

]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=127 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=128 For those of you who think John Stewart of the Daily Show should be president

John Stewart is one of the sanest and most intelligent voices on television right now. He and his colleagues on the Daily Show have consistently taken the high road � even while interviewing guests who have opposing views. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=129 OK Maybe he isn't stupid - maybe it's something worse.

Video shows what James Fallows reported as "a striking deterioration in George W. Bush's speaking skills in last 10 years."

http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/BrainTenYrs.mov
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=130 I have been wrestling with the most susinct way to convince people that we need a change of administration, but haven't found it until now... http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/seriously.wmv (its worth the wait).
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OUTLINE OF GOALS
Discover and communicate the ongoing impacts of information technology (defined as the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of all types of information using computer technology and telecommunication systems) on human consciousness and spirituality. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=132
takes a few minutes to download, but worth the wait.
http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=133 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=134 Below is a letter a friend of mine from Baltimore after one of her closest friends passed away. I was so moved by her words that I had to share it with her permission. The way she describes the life of her friend is an inspiration.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=117
This info about the presidential debates is from the PBS website for Bill Moyer's television series NOW - if you are not watching this show you are not watching the most informative and honest program on television. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=118 Dear Friends,

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. ]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=119 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=120 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=23 Facts about our president - our rather THEIR president: (I think I posted somethign like this before but just couldn't help putting this up)

�]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=121 Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=122 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=123 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=124 "I think he is a bully, and like all bullies, he�s a coward when confronted with a force that he�s fearful of. His reactions to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House are obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying �yes, yes, yes, yes,� to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole � that can come only from genuine moral cowardice.� So speaks former Vice President Al Gore of President George W. Bush in his interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker.
]]> http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=125 http://drivingsocrates.com/?p=115 For Sherry On the Occasion of Our 9th Wedding Anniversary

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:Love \Love\, n. [OE. love, luve,
1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble.

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