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 Sunday, May 29, 2005
started 5/29/2005; 10:01:45 AM - last post 5/29/2005; 2:35:41 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, May 29, 2005 
5/29/2005; 2:01:45 PM (reads: 5304, responses: 1)
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The Daily Human 
| | Yesterday, the dedicated staff of edhat.com went out to survey car bumper stickers that show support of our living troops and calls for peace. We also took the opportunity to record leftover presidential campaign stickers and American flag decals... |
| | The "support our troops" stickers, shaped as large ribbons, and sold in different colors and patterns were the runaway winner in our contest. Ribbons have been popular with the socially conscious crowd for quite some time. They are worn to show support for causes like breast cancer research and AIDS awareness. Car ribbons, however, are a relatively new phenomenon. They are most commonly used to show support for troops and also for asking for Divine approval for our country. But, like those yellow wristbands, they have expanded into other areas as well... |
| | For yesterday's contest, after ribbons (21), the next most popular sticker was John Kerry (5) followed by Peace Signs (2) and lastly, George Bush (1). |
| | As far as ribbon placement, 24% were at ninety-degree angles, 19% were straight up and down, and 14% were at artistically inspired 45-degree angles. The other 53% appeared to be randomly placed all rotated to the right but one. |
| | The Garottee and 2728 both correctly ranked the top 3 bumper stickers and chose 17% as the straight-up percentage. The Edhat dog, who has never served her country, but once was severely wounded while running with a stick, was drafted into service to choose between two biscuits. It was a numbers game. 2728¹s biscuit was chosen first, winning that subscriber two tickets to the Hawaiian music and dance performance this weekend — a memorable way to spend the weekend, we might add. |
| | Also the most human. Which is why edhat got its story in early and is taking tomorrow off. |
Gang up
| | It was a fun show to do, and great to have it back. |
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odograph - On Bumper-Stickers
5/29/2005; 6:35:41 PM (reads: 2099, responses: 0)
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As part of a Memorial Day effor to understand the current war … I was out surfing war blogs yesterday and I ended up at this amazon entry for The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War.
The interesting thing was that after reading a long review (the first one, by William Brennan) I hit this paragraph:
Bacevich clearly links our present predicaments both at home and abroad to the ever greater need for natural resources, especially oil from the Persian Gulf. He demolishes all of the reasons for our bellicosity based on ideals and links it directly to our insatiable appetite for oil and economic expansion. Naturally, like thousands of writers before him, he points out the need for a national energy policy based on more effective use of resources and alternative means of production.
I guess that’s one of those things I don’t really want to believe. I want to think that the “no blood for oil” folks are around the bend, and that this war is not simple resource greed … but then you come up with a historian of American militarism who agrees you have to look at it again.
Interesting the no "No blood for oil" stickers showed up in the survey at all.
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