Micheal Moore - Slacker Uprising

The movie is available for free download. The download is, supposedly, US only - - yet the movie also has an official bittorrent tracker. Last I checked, torrent doesn't care about what country you are in. I made a copy of the tracker, here. Bittorrent is available for free download, too.

23 Sep 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Remembering the Silent Majority

Concerning my previous blog post: Why Most Politics Is Radical I had been thinking for the last several months about Nixon's "Silent Majority" [1] [2]. The silent majority is usually described as the "mostly conservative" bulk of people who are not easily swayed by politics. Some discussions have suggested that this majority is simply gone, that it doesn't exist. However, I take it that - even while Nixon called them a "...

27 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Why Most Politics Is Radical

Status Quo I firmly believe that most people are either, pretty much O.K. with the way most things are, or so apathetic to the possibility of change that they don't care. Of this great majority, there is no reason to stand up and demand that things stay pretty much the same. Who would bother getting out of the house to vote for someone who doesn't think there's much to do....

20 Jun 2008 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink