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Mike James' webspace. Welcome.

Welcome to maikimo.net.

This is Mike James' webspace housing online content accumulating since 2002. It's divided into several main sections, chief among them my weblog and reading notes, as you can see in the omnipresent horizontal menu above.

Starting January 4, 2005, nearly all content here is being presented using Textpattern (Txp), which I'm figuring out as I go with the help of some really cool people.

Starting August 28, 2005, with Textpattern now in full release and me finally grokking what it can do, this place is startin' to show a little class. ;-)

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Tags: , Election Day prayer answered, 2008

Four years later,

Today is the day that the curse is lifted.

Dear God, I can breathe again for the first time in eight years!
We have demonstrated to the world now that we are not, in fact, eat up with stupid.

I think this nation is going to come back to life now. As of tonight, immoral and ignorant are no longer cool. Decent and bright and informed are the new cool, no longer objects of ridicule and derision, but back in their rightful place as worthy values.

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Tags: , , Rose Victorious

Suddenly, I finally get Sigur Rós*.

And now I am nearly speechless, in awe at the sheer melancholy beauty all around me as I proceed through each of their recordings.

As an example, check this lovely video of Glósóli, which ends in a way some of my dreams begin.

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Tags: , The end of (monolingual) days

The thing I’m loving most about studying Spanish here in the U.S. is it’s such a big ol’ FU to Dobbsian anti-immigration bigotry.

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Tags: , , , Conservative Christianity’s bitter harvest

I’m quick to admit my foreseer is on again/off again, and regularly needs a swift kick to work at all. But I did foresee this outcome; it drives much of the deep grief I felt and feel …

The Religious Right’s embrace of its current worldview and consequent behaviors is starting to [measurably] bear its bitter fruit, as identified by The Barna Group in a new study, A New Generation Expresses its Skepticism and Frustration with Christianity:

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Tags: , , What we have done, and what we have left undone

The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.

The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute

Washington Post, Saturday, September 22, 2007; Page A11

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Tags: , , , L33t justice

“Our representatives — and to a great degree we as a culture — are completely buffaloed by shamelessness.”

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Tags: , , , , Imperial presidency declared null and void

“Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit’s stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.”

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Tags: , , , , , , Evangelical voters may not help GOP

“Here’s a bold prediction: Evangelicals will present few if any obstacles for the Democrats in next year’s presidential race, but may prove problematic for the Republican nominee.”

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