Bookroll
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
- David Rakoff

- 3 wds: Rhythmic Raw Rakoff
- The Signal and the Noise
- Nate Silver

- 3 wds: accessible, insightful, broad
- The Casual Vacancy
- J.K. Rowling

- 3 wds: captivating, political, believable
- The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against al-Qaeda
- Neil Shah

- 3 wds: Captivating, informative, redacted
- The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker

- 3 wds: Rant, lengthy, correct
- The Trial
- Franz Kafka

- 3 wds: Disheartening, linear, skippable
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Author Archives: mindless
There’s a hole the ‘Net, Dear Liza, Dear Liza…
Coworker couldn’t access this site, so I had her run some tests, including this traceroute: tracert mindlessphilosopher.net Tracing route to mindlessphilosopher.net [203.194.159.195] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 4 ms 4 ms … Continue reading
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Official Blog, Baby!
Check this out, on the official DFA Blog: Photos from the Road: A New Hampshire Halloween Party Also, the obligatory, “Here are the Google searches that found my page:” maxwell equations shirt aaron boone homerun video howard dean zeta psi … Continue reading
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Halloween
What a rockin’ Halloween! The campaign threw a bash for staff and supporters, with the good Doctor in attendance. Activities included “bobbing for weapons of mass destruction” and dancing to some country music. But first, the bombastic David gave his … Continue reading
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Civic Duty
Forgive me, blog-readers, for I have sinned. I voted via absentee in the Manchester City election and knew the candidates in only two out of ten races. They didn’t have party or title on the ballot–just names. And instead of … Continue reading
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sex change?
So, Coworker feels that “on a progressive campaign we shouldn’t be using the term ‘gender’ in our database to distinguish between male/female. Instead we should use the term ‘sex’.” Now I honestly didn’t know there was a difference between the … Continue reading
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Weekend Update
Friday: Coworker was getting the NH donor list from National HQ to thank all the donors; turns out I gave 19 times in the 3rd quarter. Yeah, prob. went a little overboard, but that bat’s are fun! Then off to … Continue reading
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Howard Dean Kid’s Book
Howard Dean hits all 99 Iowa counties today (the first candidate to do so, of course) and ends his tour in, appropriately, Howard County. To celebrate, someone wrote this kid’s book. There once was a doctor named Howard. Long ago … Continue reading
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No More Leaks
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he “didn’t want to see any stories” quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official … Continue reading
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Knowing Kerry Too Well?
Dated Kerry, Donated To Dean. Additional truck incident details. In my one hour of non-campaign related activity (ie., 11pm-midnight), I did some free-writing, which I hadn’t done in a while. Usually I read, but I had just finished As a … Continue reading
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Double Take
Everything was going normally. We were doing a visibility outside the Granite State Organizing Project’s convention, where Edwards was speaking with Dean was slated to arrive in a few minutes. Then the Gov.’s van pulled and normal went right out … Continue reading
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