Tread lightly on the things of earth

No surprise that others are exploring Wikis for weblogging:
http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?WikiWeblogs and
http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiLog

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Microsoft’s lobbying efforts eclipse Enron. ZDNet UK has a story on Microsoft’s budget for lobbying, which makes Enron’s lobbying budget look small. The software giant spent $1.6 million on lobbying in 2000, and “total donations to political donations from Microsoft and its employees to political parties, candidates and PACs in the 2000 election cycle amounted to more than $6.1 million. During this period, Microsoft and its executives accounted for $2.3 million in soft … [NewsForge: Open Source News]

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Man, oh man, Michael Moore doesn’t hold back. In this Open Letter to George W. Bush 1/29/2002, he takes George to serious task about his Enron-permeated past and present. The weird thing to me is, even evidence as damning as this won’t make a dent in my conservative friends’ view that George hung the moon.

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I am very moved by this story about Marion Pritchard, a woman who rescued Jewish children during the Holocaust. She’s again having to stand against hate practitioners, this time in her rural Vermont community.

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