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Mar 7

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Campaign 2012 KoPoint Political Explainer- New Hampshire Primaries Edition

kopoint:

This is the KoPoint Political Explainer New Hampshire edition. On this edition, I was joined by guest contributors Chris Poirier and Dan Patterson. Here are the Show Notes:

Ko Point Political Explainer, New Hampshire Edition.
Produced on January 9, 2012 by Doc Stodden

1. Intro
Element: Intro
Bed: Sgt Sterling Bed, Sampled from “Captain Sterling’s Little Problem” by the Coup

2. Talkset: What is a Primary, New Hampshire Edition
Bed: “Abject Worship of Authority” by Subatomicglue, downloaded from opsound.org

3. Element: Ko Short ID
Ramp: Fascistramp, taken from Bliiy Bragg and Willco, “All you Fascists”

4. Talkset: Christopher Poirier, Candidate Profile Mitt Romney
Bed: Guineo, “My Place”, downloaded from opsound.org

5. Element: AlamodeID
Ramp: Overseer Ramp, taken from KRS-One’s “The Sound of the Police”

6. Talkset: What is a Liberal
Bed: Avelino, “I love Rhodes” downloaded from opsound.org

7. Element: KPSweepHansen1 
Ramp: JBGRamp, taken from The Sex Pistos’ “Johnny Be Goode”

8. Talkset: Dan Patterson, New Hampshire Intro
Bed: Alvelino” Aciiid” downloaded from opsound.org

9. Element: Kopointsweepvic
Ramp: Youthramp, taken from Matisyahu, “Youth”

10. Talkset: KoPoint Commentary, Why Do campaigns use Negative Ads?
Bed: HipHop Bed, sampled from “Bigger than HipHop” by Dead Prez

11. Element: South Carolina Preview
Ramp: 25or6to4 Ramp, taken from “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago”

12: Element: Outro

Here’s a little about Christopher Poirier:

” I am a program/project manager with about five years of experience supporting public and private entities within the Washington D.C. Beltway. Though when I’m not busy battling the day-to-day bureaucracy of this great nation I am actively engaged in posting my random musings on life and the great pursuit up on twitter, Google+, Facebook, and what have you. Yet, the great pursuit will look mostly like technology, gaming, government, and current events related items of interest. If it happened or might happen, I probably hold an opinion on it and have probably posted something.”

Jan 3
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Campaign 2012 KoPoint Political Explainer - Iowa Caucus Edition
Doc Stodden

kopoint:

Produced for KoPoint Stories by Doc Stodden  Political Director of KoPoint.

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This inaugural edition of the KoPoint Political Explainer covers everything you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses, including what is actually going on in Iowa tonight, who Ron Paul is, What are the major issues facing the potential winner of the General Election in November, what a conservative is, and why We should pay attention to Iowa. Voice credits include Doc Stodden, (Host) Mallary Allen, John Hansen and Victor Moses as supporting voices.Barry Goldwater also makes an appearance.

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The Story Behind 420 - Pot Smokers' Favorite Holiday

It’s nice to see that ABC radio is covering this.  It’s a sign of the times.

abcnewsradio:

(NEW YORK) — At 4:20 p.m. Wednesday—in whatever time zone they happen to be in—pot-smokers will be lighting up to celebrate an unofficial holiday whose origins are debated by stoners with time on their hands.

Does 420 refer to a police code for illegal marijuana use? Is it a veiled allusion to the number of chemicals in cannabis? Or maybe it’s teatime in Amsterdam, the global spiritual home of marijuana smokers. Don’t forget that April 20 is Hitler’s birthday, so that must have something to do with it. 

And how do you spell this holiday anyway—420, 4-20, or 4/20? 

Grammarians can debate the punctuation issue, but according to Dan Skye, executive editor of High Times magazine and an expert in all things weed, the true origins of 420 have been researched and are laid out in a Wikipedia entry largely composed by High Times savants. “People tried to create their own myth about this,” he says, but adds: “The start of 420 is fairly clear at this point—the kids back at San Rafael High School.” 

He’s referring to some teenagers who back in 1971 reportedly invented the term, referring to the time of day when they would meet to smoke under the school’s statue of Louis Pasteur. Their password for the gathering was “420 Louis.” The kids were known as the Waldos, maybe because there was a wall near the statue. The term went viral the way things went viral in the 1970s, gradually over years. 

“Some of their parents were associated with the Grateful Dead,” says Skye, and the term became common among Deadheads. Around 1990, High Times published the term and later it bought the web domain 420.com.

The mystique of 420 grew when the clocks in Quentin Tarantino’s film “Pulp Fiction” were set at 4:20, a practice that Sophia Coppola paid homage to in her later movie “Lost in Translation.” 

“It’s basically just a celebration of cannabis. It’s mushroomed into our unofficial national holiday,” says Skye. 

Not everyone sees it that way. At the University of Colorado Boulder, where 420 gatherings draw up to 10,000 participants in the main quad, officials see 420 as a downer. “It’s the biggest 420 celebration in the country, regrettably,” says spokesman Bronson Hilliard. “Facebook and Twitter certainly fuel it.” 

The university sent students an email this week “outlining the safety, security and reputational issues for the institution that are at stake for this event,” Hilliard said. “It doesn’t really represent what our student experience is. This is an elite American public university. It’s just a party in the sunshine.” 

Other big celebrations occur at college campuses around the country, in New York’s Central Park and in Minneapolis. Some of the events focus on the drive to legalize medical marijuana, but the festivities are overwhelmingly recreational, says Skye. At High Times, he says, everyone’s going to be working. “There’s no pot smoking in this office. It’s illegal!” he says. 

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Breaking: ABC News Radio Live Coverage from #Cairo

Live coverage from ABC Radio

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Creepy Sleepy 2010 Month-by-Month

creepysleepy:

Right around this time of year, people begin posting retrospectives of the year which is rapidly passing away.  Creepy Sleepy, is of course, no different though clearly we are better. What follows is 2010, a fairly eventful year for a few, and a generally eventless mundane year for most of us. 

For example:  Few of us, relatively speaking, will be involved in some life changing event.  Most of us will have kept our jobs.  Few of us will either be married or divorced this year.  Most of us will not complete a degree program.  Even fewer of us will be involved in a natural disaster or catch a life threatening disease, or win a gold medal in the Olympics, or obtain windfall profits in the stock market, or be elected to a high public office.  Most of us have incredibly boring stories to tell, most of them dealing with doing exactly the same thing every single day, meeting with the same exact people, drinking the same coffee and alcohol, and so on and so forth.  Unfortunately for all of us, we are not the special ones:  we are not the stuff that stories are written and told about.

What follows therefore is not the history of us.  It is instead the history of those lucky (or unlucky) few who did experience very important events first hand.  To some people, history happened for them.  To others, history happened to them.  So relax, pour yourself a cup of your same old coffee, sit back, and read about people who are not you.  And on balance, you should thank God or whoever it is you thank for good fortune that this is NOT the tale of you.  I suspect that nearly everyone listed in these events, even if they were fortunate in history, would prefer to have your mundane boring life, and not their own, in some way or another.

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Recommend The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse on Tumblr!

creepysleepy:

Hello Creepy Sleepy faithful, and happy holidays!  Each week on Creepy Sleepy we ask you to tell us what your favorite news and politics blogs are (and please do let us know!) on Tumblr.  For the past few weeks we’ve highlighted our own Creepy Sleepy contributors.  

This week we ask you to follow and recommend something seemingly out of the ordinary: The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse!  Many of the Creepy Sleepy contributors also contribute to this fun little zombie blog and this week we are all sending some holiday love to the Undead in the Weird category on Tumblr!  

Why zombies?  Why not!  Zombies make for fascinating fun.  But why ask the Creepy Sleepy politics crowd to recommend zombies?  On an upcoming podcast we’ll explain - in detail - why zombies represent Man’s Existential Dilemma and systemic human anxiety as a response to media over-saturation in the information age.  Seriously!  

But for now, swing by The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse, <3 some zombie awesome, and have fun.

Thanks!

- DHP

Recommend The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse on Tumblr

Kthxdie.

theinevitablezombieapocalypse:

Thanks a ton to all of our followers her on Tumblr, new and old alike!  We appreciate you and would love your recommendation today on Tumblr!

You all must be, hands-down, one of the most passionate and devoted follows on the web.  Thank you!  We wish we could recommend the lot of you, but failing that please do a) tell us who we are so our crew can follow you, and b) tell us what zombie blogs you love as so that we can follow and send <3 to your favorite sites.

Thanks!

Creepy Sleepy Editorial: Holiday Shopping Season

creepysleepy:

An editorial by W. Doc Stodden

Now that most of us are, for the most part, done eating the Turkey and Stuffing and potatoes and yams, and whatever else most of us eat on the fourth Thursday of November, and after we have watched the last football game of the evening, and put the kids to bed,…

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Revival of Project Dyszombie

Posted over at @theinevitablezombieapocalypse, this is a project I am working on, about the anti-zombie.

Posted as a link because I apparently cannot reblog from there to here for some reason.

dirigisme:

So, in today’s leftist politics, we seem in effect to be reduced to the choice between the “solid” orthodox attitude of proudly out of principle, sticking to the old (Communist or Social Democratic) tune, although we know its time has passed, and the New Labour “radical centre” attitude of going the “full Monty” in stripping, the last vestiges of proper leftist discourse 
Theorist/philosopher Slavoj Zizek in ‘The Ticklish Subject’ (quote pulled from Jose Klein’s thought provoking, if flawed, book review over at Salon)
Zizek not only has good (and important) ideas, but the way he expresses them is nearly as important. He does not run for the cover of dense, overcomplex footnotes and build theory upon layers and layers of incoherent monologue; while he may sometimes be difficult to understand, ultimately his message (both in terms of its content and expression) is the most powerful of any philosopher for decades.

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dirigisme:

So, in today’s leftist politics, we seem in effect to be reduced to the choice between the “solid” orthodox attitude of proudly out of principle, sticking to the old (Communist or Social Democratic) tune, although we know its time has passed, and the New Labour “radical centre” attitude of going the “full Monty” in stripping, the last vestiges of proper leftist discourse

Theorist/philosopher Slavoj Zizek in ‘The Ticklish Subject’ (quote pulled from Jose Klein’s thought provoking, if flawed, book review over at Salon)

Zizek not only has good (and important) ideas, but the way he expresses them is nearly as important. He does not run for the cover of dense, overcomplex footnotes and build theory upon layers and layers of incoherent monologue; while he may sometimes be difficult to understand, ultimately his message (both in terms of its content and expression) is the most powerful of any philosopher for decades.

Read more at Dirigisme