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Saturday, January 17, 2004
Yesterways 
| | The call was over moments after this happened. I found myself so upset, I was shaking. Part of the feeling was rage, part of it was absorbing the wound. |
| | And part of it made me wonder if this is bubbling beneath the surface in other places, as well. Here we were, a group of New York Metropolitan area adults, businessmen. People dealing in an international marketplace and with people from all over the world. A rather egalitarian and enlightened group, or so I had thought. |
| | How to handle this? What to do? |
| | Reading this leaves me shaking, too. In my head, in my heart. |
| | There has been much talk lately about "hatred" and anger in presidential campaigning (this one link is as good a starting point as any); but I don't think any of that comes close to touching the truly evil effects of dismissive ethnic characterization. That, more than any other human prejudice, has ruined or killed more of our species than anything else I know. |
| | And it's always a shock to discover how much it remains an unseen force in our cultures. Even, worst of all, the hearts of those in whom we least expect to find it. |
More Steve
Unfair and unbalanced
| | Dave Pentecost reports on A&E's decision to stop work on a biography of Howard Dean on the eve of the primaries because "bios of politicians to poorly in the ratings." |
| | Hmm. Wonder why Dean was on the covers of half the magazines on the racks last week? |
Green for JetBlue
| | Had my first JetBlue experience flying from JFK to BVT yesterday evening, aboard a packed A320 that was late departing because they waited for passengers. Scheduled departure was 10:30, but the plane left at 11:05. We sat at the gate for half an hour watching TV and listening to the crew crack jokes. It didn't suck. |
There
| | Made it to Burlington, Vermont. Sitting right now in Dean HQ, where the work never stops. Impressive. It's 1:35am, but still just 10:35pm yesterday, body time. It's freaking freezing outside. Gotta get some sleep soon... |
| | [Later...] Readers want to know what I'm doing here. No, I'm not working for the Dean Campaign. I'm covering the way it (among other campaigns) uses technology, for a Linux Journal story that will run in June. |
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