February 22, 2004

Ralph
Dave Winer on Ralph Nader:

If Nader is going to win the election for the Republicans, then now's the time to fix the bug in the process. Kerry isn't nominated yet. Think. What's the problem that Nader exploits? ... Is this the America you imagined when you were a kid? Why can't we make it better?
Then go read this piece on Howard Dean's unreported quotes (it's short---go read it), the ones that had they been reported would have gone a long way toward connecting the Howard Dean I knew from being a Vermonter with the howarddean(tm) that I kept hearing about on TV and on NPR and reading about in the paper.
Dean's big mistake was in not recognizing, up front, that the media are very much part of the existing order and were bound to be hostile to his provocative kind of politics. To be heard, clearly and accurately, he would have had to find another channel.

For the record, reporters and editors deny that this occurred. Privately, they chortle over their accomplishment. At the Washington airport I ran into a bunch of them, including some old friends from long-ago campaigns, on their way to the next contest after Iowa. So, I remarked, you guys saved the Republic from the doctor. Yes, they assented with giggly pleasure, Dean was finished--though one newsmagazine correspondent confided the coverage would become more balanced once they went after Senator Kerry.
Not that he's the only guy to have this done to him, but, I mean, holy crap! How do I vote against CNN?
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Water
Has anyone else in this area noticed the water pressure going erratically up and down, sometimes down to zero? Just wondering. (No, my pipes aren't frozen.)
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