] Reason: I've been rereading some of your early
] 90s writings about the digital future, and you
] sounded a lot more optimistic then, with a much more
] "nothing can stop us now" attitude.
]
] Barlow: We all get older and smarter.

On today:

] It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats
] foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst
] full of passionate intensity.

] Kerry isn't perfect, but the alternative is just
] completely....I hate to keep carping on this, but within
] the libertarian movement we're gonna have to
] actually sit down and talk about where we stand on the
] two variants, because one of them is actually part of the
] problem at this point. I used to think of myself as both
] kinds of libertarian, but I have pretty well parted
] company with [D.C.-based leader of libertarian-leaning
] conservatives] Grover Norquist at this point. I
] don't see anything particularly free about a
] plutocracy.

[ There's a shitload of good stuff in this article, and the bit i memed above here is just one that stuck me towards the end. Go read it now. -k]