nate.mook

"We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual accomplishment — it continues to amaze me that private enterprise and venture capital spend so much time and energy (not to mention cash) on “innovations” like Twitter and other forms of social blathering rather than on marshaling the energies and talents of our engineers to create new industries to replace the ones that enabled the American Century."

"Regardless of how you view Capitalism, Moore is absolutely right about one thing. As Beck continues to prove, there is a grass-roots movement of people rallying around dissatisfaction with the Republican party. So if a change is gonna come, it’s going to require organized action. It’s going to take more than status-update solidarity to implement health-care reform."