One reason my why my blogging has been so sparse in recent months is that I've been working hard, together with fellow Zaadzster Marshall Sontag, to launch a new business in the wine industry.

The purpose of Flow is to create a dialogue community that combines two contrary trends in existing social/political discourse:

So here I am exploring Second Life for the first time. And yes, I have no freakin' money and property.

Here it is at last, brothers and sisters. My dancing.

I recently did a cool interview with Stephen Dinan over at the Institute of Noetic Sciences for a program they have called ”Shift in Action.” It was a lot of fun.

The current issue of Cato Unbound is devoted to the issue “Should Libertarians Vote Democrat?” The issue includes essays by well-known Democrats articulating the ways in which they see a possible rapprochement. Certainly many libertarians are angry and disappointed with Bush Republicans; one described him as the worst president in the past fifty years. Others are actively encouraging fellow libertarians to vote Democratic. Given the fact that Democrats are increasingly marginalized in elections, it would behoove them to consider additional constituencies, especially one that is angry with Republicans and therefore ripe for the picking.

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The printout is an excerpt from a book called, Embracing Each Other. It's a very good read. It gives a very interesting perspective on subpersonalities (aka “selves”), how to understand them within the context of one's personal life, relationships, and never-ending process of becoming more conscious.