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IAN!

About Me

peanut butter and banana sandwiches, alliteration, karmic balance. I also fly planes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_anderson/sets/

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My Blog

response

a response to common criticisms and talking points from the far right against obama: first: the "obama preaches change for the sake of change" argument -obama doesn't preach change for the s...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Fact Checking Sarah Palin

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:34:00 GMT

a victim treats his mugger right

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.But one night last ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:46:00 GMT

yes we can

Yes we can - That is Barack Obama's message and that is why I support him. His is the politics of hope and community, not the politics of devisiveness and fear. He believes in the same America that I ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:54:00 GMT

sad songs

I just listened to Beck's Sea Change for about the 74,987th time and it still blows me away. The lyrics are so intense and melancholy and the music so haunting - the songs are intensely painful and ye...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:56:00 GMT

photography

Maybe cultures that believe photography steals the soul of the subject are right. Is that necessarily a bad thing? These moments frozen in time allow us to see each other and ourselves as we truly are...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:51:00 GMT

Bush does not care about people. Period.

    Today, Bush vetoed another bill passed by Congress. This one included $150 billion in funding for the Dept. of Education, Dept. of Labor, and the Dept. of Health and Human Services...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:10:00 GMT

politico

This is an excerpt from an AIM converstaion I had w/ my buddy Paco last night/this morning about isues we all face and hardly anyone carespaco61281 (5:23:02 AM): dude, I am really worried ab...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:06:00 GMT

"free" speech

Last Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke by invitation at Columbia University amid much controversy and protest. He had also planned on visiting Ground Zero to lay a wreath and speak a...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:53:00 GMT

non-violence

--posted by Arun Gandhi on Sep 18, 2007 on helpothers.org I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the mi...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:47:00 GMT