Sorry about that. Moved servers a few months back, forgot to change path of that. Working to get comments back up asap. Always feel free to email me: drmenlo @ gmail.com.
Also - and I know some will scoff! - I set up http://www.facebook.com/drmenlo. I wanted to grab the url but I don't use that account much. But if you add me I will accept and add you from my real name account, which I use a little more. Some harbingers I know detest FB. I can understand some of these criticisms. But I believe in issue-based alliances from the ground up, so all these forms of social networking just seem conducive to this.
As far as privacy goes, after learning of Carnivore and Echelon over ten years ago, I have long ago given up on that on the internets. While, as some point out, 'the internet is the greatest mass spying tool ever invented,' there still isn't total Control of the internet, tho this is likely to be changed (or attempted) soon or soonish, so I will continue trying to put out the alternative memes until then . . . [and then what? samizdats old school? underground printing presses or kinko's . . . or internets 2, 3, 4 or more . . . ]
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."