Archive - 2004
November 20th
Walmart
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/20/2004 - 12:09Over at useless and pointless knowledgefound via Blog Explosion, they have a survey which asks if Wal-Mart is:
A) A monster of mythic proportions crushing the soul out of honest, hard-working, store-owning Americans everywhere,
or,
B) The product of hard work in a competitive market and a poster-child for capitalism.
One person commented, "I refer to Wal-mart as the great Satan." Another responded, "the great Satan? buddy, you need to re-evaluate your perception of ultimate evil. Hitler? Stalin? Lenin? Polpot? Is all their combined wickedness overshadowed by a floating yellow dot that really only wants to save you money on a dvd player?"
Moving Forward
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/20/2004 - 11:22(This is a long post on my views for the future direction of the Democratic Party. If you are interested, please click on 'read more')
Helping Hands
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/20/2004 - 10:01Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I am a big fan of blogs highlighting interesting unknown charities. Strengthen the Good is an interesting site that does this. You will also know that I am a big supporter of The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and the efforts to help those with spinal cord injuries.
Today, while surfing BlogExplosion, I found another very interesting site. Monkeyverb is a blog with a tag line, “Because Monkeys Are Funny...and They Do Stuff!”. They had a pointer to Helping Hands Monkeys. “Helping Hands is an organization that trains Capuchin monkeys to assist quadriplegics with simple every-day tasks.”
November 19th
Blue Highways, Blue America
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 18:59Surfing with BlogExplosion, I found this blog entry.
'You Know You're From Maine When...'
It is the perfect illustration of the East Coast Liberal Elitism that I think we need more of in the Democratic Party.
Follow your passion
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 14:27There is an old say, follow your passion and the money will follow. Well, I’ve been following my passion, and I’m still waiting. This evening, my passion has me sitting on a train into New York City. I will be having dinner with Dean Landsman to talk about blogs, radio, podcasting, and who knows what else.
Today, I downloaded iPodder and have loaded a couple Podcasts onto my laptop. I am listening to Coverville. It is a 25 meg file that I downloaded via iPodder and copied to my laptop. My initial reaction to iPodder was, “Where is the good content?” Coverville is some of that good content. At this moment, I’m listening to Sid Vicious singing, “My way”. This is the sort of stuff you can’t get on the canned anesthetized mainstream media.
