FIrst up, since Oliver Willis (Occupation: Toole) can do it, so can I.
What is the most influential political book you’ve read, and why?
Mine are:
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America – Philip K. Howard
And
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal – Ayn Rand (the book I was pulling the ‘Quotes of the Day’ from a while back) (I’m still working on a way to do that without it taking so damn long, btw)
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The second question is this:
How many (and please give examples) left wing sites/blogs do you know to have been attacked/hacked?
We all know about the attacks on both the Mu.Nu crew (Ace and and MyPetJawa as good examples) that occured around the same time as the one that took out RNS a few weeks back, as well as the almost weekly DOS attacks on places like LGF.
But I never hear about these things happening to leftist blogs (and I visit quite a goodly number of them on a daily basis, for your subsequent enjoyment).
I’m not meaning to still be complaining about our attack, I’m just asking for references to try and prove the theory about which side tries harder to shut the opposition up.
Part of the reason for this is that a local leftist blogger, Goldy at HorsesAss, had his server crash on Friday, and flippantly used “GOP dirty tricks” as a joke explanation to explain the down time. If ‘The Fascist Right-Wing’ were anywhere near as ‘evil’ as he would like his readers and fellow leftist bloggers would like to believe, I seriously doubt he would want to joke about getting hacked.
1- I do not know if these books are the most influental on me but they are some of the best political books I have read in a while
“Tower of Bable” by Dore Gold(sp?) It is about how not is the UN ineffectual but has helped to cause a lot of the problems we face on the world stage today. Dore is an insider at the UN and give a in depth history of the failures at the UN.
“In Defense of the Religious Right” this one I just finished reading and reviewing at the request of the author Patrick Hynes. It is a very enlghting book on the power of voting block known as Values Voters. The review is on Amazon.com allready and shuld be on his site anklebitingpundits.com this morning. However in a strange tie in with question #2 it looks like his site is down so for this a.m.. I don’t know if it is a DOS but who knows.
Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” pretty much focussed my politics as a lad of 20.
These hacker wars are bothersome. It behooves all of us to have a backup plan AND a backup site to post to if/when we are hacked.
Of course, it goes without saying that we should back up our posts at least every week.