Stuff and nonsense yesterday. Snow was cleared off the sidewalk and driveway early and the streets are fine. Not much going on except boring housework. Enjoyed a cam call from Ellen in the evening; her computer's finally fixed.
WIDER: Came across some interesting sites that contain essays advocating the forming of a third party. The idea is to have candidates run in all congressional races. I impulsively wrote the author, Jeff Robey, telling him that I'd run for one. He wrote back with his phone number (he lives in Jersey City), I called him, and we had a good talk.
I'm not one hundred percent positive I want to do this, but I'm definitely interested in the movement. If we can organize, then make the message known to enough people, we may have a shot. We can at least, maybe, crystallize people's thinking around the idea that we're being screwed and we need to form a resistance. Jeff sent me some web sites I want to check out and I'm going to direct him to a number I read, including "Dead Horse," "Hugo Zoom," "A Distant Ocean," "Anti-War.Com," and, of course, in my opinion, the very top ones--"Empire Burlesque" and "Once Upon A Time...."
Come to think of it, there's also "North Toward Home" and "Truthdig"--lots more, in fact. Well, we'll start with the ones I mentioned.
WIDER STILL: As ever, Chris Hedges nails it. In TruthDig.Com, he writes on the press, sadly fallen from the place it held--or, at least, appeared to hold:
"...once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The press became, as seen in the Iraq war and the aftermath of the financial upheavals, a class of courtiers."
But it all should be read:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_creed_of_objectivity_killed_the_news_business_20100131/