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The re-election of Obama was in accord to my own preferences and in recognition of his actions. Personally pleased that I guessed the electoral college vote exactly right several weeks prior, although I had already become a little obsessive on reading the polls. Have since become very interested in county-by-county results. As noted some months ago, the Republicans are facing a demographic challenge, which is not helped by the fact they're engaging with the problem with a death-wish, which has led to all sorts of crazy tears of impotent rage (again); notably from Donald Trump.

Work continues at project Trifid as we discover the joys of xCAT (imajica_lj has his own sense of rage as well). Hopefully next week we'll get the applications installled with greater ease. Wednesday night was a smaller than usual LUV meeting, albeit with good discussion on whether the diversity within Linux is a good thing for its market share. Matthew Garrett raises the issue of rape apology in the Linux community, which I'll respond to in depth in the near future. The Australian government has also announced that it is dropping plans for an Internet filter.

Thursday night was another excellent Call of Cthulhu session, playing out the Trieste chapter of Horror on the Orient Express (two characters indefinitely insane, two unconscious - a good result). Tonight attended the weekly multicultural gathering organised by Keith P.; some thirty (mostly) students crammed into his flat to discuss collecting. This Sunday will attend Katherine P's attempt at Ross House to establish a new Unitarian-Universalist congregation in Melbourne (it's called leadership by example). Next Tuesday night will give a presentation to the Melbourne Atheist Society on The Importance of A Secular Political System.

Comments

[serehfa]

I tried to find the "like" button. I've been assimilated!

[lifedistilled.livejournal.com]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/hey-rush-limbaugh-starting-an-abortion-industry-wont-win-you-female-voters-20121108

A solid, brutal and amusing look at why the Republican leadership and punditry hasn't caught on to what went wrong.

Matt Taibbi is a writer I think you'll appreciate, by the way, and there's plenty of archive to dig through if you find yourself with a lot of time.

As an aside, I recommend his book Griftopia if it's available where you are. I sold more than four dozen copies during the Occupy protests and lectured to large working groups during the protests using information gleaned from the book. I strongly recommend it. Once again, informed and pull-no-punches hilarious.

[kremmen.livejournal.com]

Wow. After 5 years of wasting large amounts of time and money and looking like a total moron, they finally gives up on censoring the net. Conroy and Gillard should resign. Nobody that clueless should be running a milk bar, much less the country.