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Thursday February 19, 2009 · 9:45 PM PST

2009/02/19 · 21:45

Hey everyone -- this my first diary in quite some time after a year or so as an organizer on the Obama campaign.

I just want to let all the Kossacks out here in the DC Metro area know that a bunch of guys (and a gal or two) from the campaign and a few of our musically talented progressive friends have formed a funk and soul band called WMD (named after our initials, not the bombs), and we're playing this Sunday evening at DC9. DC9 is one of the premier new clubs in the rapidly developing U St neighborhood.

The show's proceeds are going to DC Vote a reputable organization that aims to bring home rule to the nation's captial.

Link to our event here: http://www.dcvote.org/...

If you can join us, we'd love to have as many kossacks and other supporters of voting rights and getting down.

Thanks everyone, and see you there!

Carolina Invasion (Part 1)

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Monday October 01, 2007 · 9:00 AM PDT

2007/10/01 · 09:00

I just came back from what I can only describe as an all-around, incredibly rewarding canvassing trip to South Carolina this weekend -- the first I've ever taken.

The good and the bad were part of a whole that has once again renewed my faith in everyday people playing their part in the presidential campaign.

Today's post is just about the bus-ride itself. Several young professionals in DC had gotten together to raise funds for a bus to put a whole bunch of college kids on to canvass for Barack this weekend. The challenges were going to be to get some checks, and to get kids in seats -- and we met both with surprising ease. Among the organizers, I was tasked with overseeing the actual day of departure.

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 12:51 PM PDT

2007/09/11 · 12:51

As a big fan of Edward O. Wilson's theories of sociobiology (though not those who would taint it with racism or genetic absolutism, both of which Wilson detests), I find this very interesting. According to Scientific American today, we may be more genetically predisposed to our political beliefs than previously thought.

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 10:54 AM PDT

2007/09/10 · 10:54

From Volker Mrasek at Germany's Der Spiegel, more proof that doing what's right for the environment and making buckets of cash aren't incompatible at all. Also, I suppose, strong evidence that the opposite can be true -- the obscene environmental inefficiency on display by the oil companies here is costing them billions of dollars a month.

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Thursday August 30, 2007 · 3:39 PM PDT

2007/08/30 · 15:39

In light of yesterday's post about how connected we are in the world, and how much power campaigns could have to work within the community, I wanted to share the experiences the DC for Obama group had during this Saturday's DC Public Schools beautification day. If we're going to move the needle at all in terms of getting Democratic supporters, and specifically those inspired by Obama, involved in their communities, they need to know it's happening out there already, and how rewarding it can be.

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Wednesday August 29, 2007 · 12:54 PM PDT

2007/08/29 · 12:54

We're all so interconnected, even those with the greatest foresight can't really predict what effect their actions will have on others. And no story you tell can put any kind of finality or cap on that fact, because it will go on being the case until the sun burns us all up (or we do), or God calls us home, or maybe forever. Who knows?

This is my first post after years of reading here on DKos: it's a post about beautifying DC schools in our city for the Obama campaign. But it's also a post about an idea, and it's a post about people.

Also, it's a post about almost getting sunstroke in the DC summer sun, about seeing your best friend pummel a stone wall with a sledgehammer and watching a Lutheran reverend go crazy with power tools... and ultimately it's about watching those interconnections weave their way through people you know and people you don't.

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DC Vote Benefit at DC9

Carolina Invasion (Part 1)

Prewired? Any neurogeeks out there?

Gas Flaring, the Environment, and the Economy

The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning, Part 2

The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning, Part 1