I don't know where else to turn. The expertise available to me in real life has been exhausted, it would seem.

Three quarters of Britons favour wind farms.

Oh, but wait, teh public hat0rz sustainable development policy, that's right. That the preponderance of people in industrialised countries tend in the direction of polluting, non-renewable, ecologically catastrophic energy sources is abundant evidence of their exclusive preference for them.

"Demand-push" thought as the essence of capitalistic rationalisation continues to amaze me. Here are your choices. Ah, you picked one of those with which you were presented. It follows that these are the choices with which you chose to be confronted in the first place! Right.

Here's something interesting.

Pay close, forensic attention to the fact that three of the four plotters were Cuban-born U.S. citizens.

Greetings everyone.

I have not kept up with either K5 or HuSi regularly in quite some time, although I occasionally peek at the content of both.

It seems to me that in light of what has gone down at K5, its usefulness can be written off for the time being, although there is a valuable base of articles there that I find myself often referring to.

My girlfriend gave me a fine booklet she recently found, entitled "What you should know about Communism - and why." A 1966 publication by the editors of Scholastic Magazines, it was "adapted by Matthew Mestrovic, Ph.D., from the series of fiteen articles published under the same title in Junior Scholastic."

This particular book appeared to have served as a textbook in the fine public school system of Elgin, Illinois, although I can't date its last use. Somehow it ended up at a flea market down here.

Things like this make me really mad. I can't believe authorities would do that. It makes me appreciate where the Libertarian emphasis on freedom from taxation comes from.

Today, I left school early to attend a lecture by Marjorie Agosin at the university, entitled "September 11, 1973: A Chilean Story." On this 11th of September thirty years ago, the elected Socialist government of Chile, headed by President Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a brutal coup d'etat sponsored (and, by and large, created) by the US, and replaced with the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Of course, I am getting credit in my Humanities class for going to a "cultural activity", but that's not why I went. Allende is a subject very dear to me. I can't claim to have been deeply personally affected, of course, since I wasn't alive during the period, haven't an iota of Latin American heritage, and don't even hail from the same hemisphere. Nevertheless, I consider the American intervention in Chile, the overthrow of Allende, and the installation of the Pinochet dictatorship to be one of the most formative and defining conjunctures to inform my worldview.

I haven't posted anything serious or extensive in a while because nothing particularly inspiring has been happening in my life. In general, I try to avoid writing about the daily and the routine, because this just isn't interesting. It's not even interesting to me for "personal use" later. I do my best to write diary entries that posit a view, express an idea, or just give account to something unusually noteworthy. Well, lately I've just not had any motivation in any of these spheres.

Can someone get this huIver (that is, capital "i", as opposed to hulver) clown out of here?

Greetings.

For what it's worth, I share most of your disdain with what's happened to K5. On the other hand, I've been mentally filtering out nonsense there for so long that I perhaps am not as acutely affected. I still think there's worthwhile content to be found there outside of the diary section, certainly, if you know where to look. But I do see the problem, and don't really see how it can be rolled back.

Before I consider packing my literary bags and emigrating to HuSi (I'm already on the fast track for citizenship), I'd like to settle a few matters, though.