Articles By Kendall Clark

Kendall Clark is a human being, a citizen, and a troublemaker. He's supposed to be finishing a PhD in Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, working on a dissertation in revisionary Christian theology. Instead he writes about politics and technology and is busy at work on a novel. He helps Niel hack the Monkey.

Justice Entails Ending White Privilege
Does racial justice consist merely in achieving some measure of diversity, or are there deeper questions of history and power which need to be asked and answered?
14 April 2003

A Shuttle Exploding Over My Head
First reaction to hearing the breakup of the space shuttle over my head.
1 February 2003

China Best and Worst
A ghastly recipe, Chow Mein for 200, brings back memories, fond and otherwise, of the author's earliest encounter with the Orientalist Other.
11 November 2002

Soft Rice and Other People
How dinner at the local Vietnamese place illuminates the rules and pleasures of living with another human being full-time.
8 November 2002

Of Tagines, Cuban Cuisine, and the Vagaries of Pasta
An indirect, oblique culinary tour of Morocco by way of Dallas, Cuba by way of Houston, and Italy by way of New York City; wherein the author expounds and explains the pleasures and pains of recent meals.
30 October 2002

The Strange Values of President Bush
What does President Bush's opposition to ballistic fingerprinting say about his values?
24 October 2002

WEEKLY REVIEW
A weekly review of news.
26 July 2002

WEEKLY REVIEW
A review of the week's news and events.
19 July 2002

WEEKLY REVIEW
A review of the week's news.
12 July 2002

Patrols and Privilege
A review of Sally Hadden's Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, the first detailed history of slave patrolling in the American South.
8 March 2002

Celebrating Black History Month
Monkeyfist begins a month-long celebration of African Americans, their histories, cultures, triumphs and tribulations.
1 February 2002

WEF Protest Newswire
Monkeyfist.com is collecting news and chronologies about the WEF protests in New York City.
1 February 2002

Criticizing Cornel
Across the conventional political spectrum, Cornel West has become unfair game.
14 January 2002

Bush's Racist Slur
Bush's use of a racist slur -- and subsequent failure to apologize for such a use -- is an intolerable coarsening of the present situation.
10 January 2002

Bush's Order Creates Military Tribunals
Bush's executive order creates military tribunals as a justification for summary executions.
15 November 2001

US Broadcasts Propaganda Into Afghanistan
The US is broadcasting propaganda into Afghanistan. Read the official DefenseLink.mil transcripts.
24 October 2001

The Law of Force
What are the bounds of the international legal framework within which the United States may legally respond to terror?
27 September 2001

Congressional Response to Terrorist Attacks
What has Congress done to respond to the terrorist attacks?
22 September 2001

National Emergency Empowers Bush to Prep for War
Bush's invocation of the National Emergencies Act includes a list of provisions of the US Code he intends to use.
18 September 2001

Congress Must Not Abdicate to Bush
During a national tragedy, Congress seems too willing to capitulate its role to the President's ambition.
14 September 2001

Refuse and Resist Anti-Arab Racism
In the wake of terrorist attacks, virulent Anti-Arab racism explodes into public spaces everywhere.
12 September 2001

ob-scen-i-ty
How long will evil pigs like George W. Bush rule the world? How long?
16 August 2001

A Life and Death Struggle in Genoa
The G-8 goes to Genoa, Italy; you know, Italy, the place with the proud anarchist tradition.
20 July 2001

The Global Privileges of Whiteness
White supremacist ideology and White privilege are global in reach and in aspiration. I examine three nodes in the global distribution network of White privilege: empire, corporate profits, and victimhood.
28 June 2001

Bad News: Noam Chomsky Archive
Monkeyfist hosts a Noam Chomsky archive.
21 June 2001

Technology and Social Change, Or: Three Myths of XML
First in a series of two articles dissecting the myths of XML and the Semantic Web.
18 May 2001

Politics of Human Rights: The UN, US, and Sudan
The US gets its comeuppance in the UN and points the finger of blame at Sudan.
10 May 2001

Protesting the FTAA in Quebec City
A report from Dallas activists protesting the FTAA in Quebec City.
20 April 2001

Politics and the Web's Future
As the world is codified one schema at a time, what are the political consequences and implications for the future of the Web?
12 February 2001

Monkeyfist Celebrates Black History Month
The Monkeyfist Collective is focusing on Black History Month during February.
4 February 2001

MLK, The Negro and the Constitution
Listen to the words: there's yet wisdom in them.
15 January 2001

My White Problem -- And Ours
New tales of the not so new racist South.
8 January 2001

Whose Equal Protection?
The majority pins its ideological power grab on specious equal protection claims while real disenfranchisement went on with little comment.
13 December 2000

Dallas Buy Nothing Day
Nothing screams "American consumer monomania is killing the planet" like a banner-float at Northpark Mall in Dallas, Texas, on Buy Nothing Day.
1 December 2000

New Monkeyfist Mailing Lists
We add some new mailing lists for our readers.
1 December 2000

The Folly of Internet Voting, or Democracy and Disenfranchisement
During this rare interregnum of sorts, proponents of Internet voting press their case, while disenfranchisement rages on.
17 November 2000

Blame It on the Butterfly
Massive electoral and political confusion from the pedestrian Florida butterfly ballot.
9 November 2000

Third Party Spoiler!
A third party spoiler as predicted tip the race to Bush!
8 November 2000

Pretend They Don't
A bit of public space reclamation in Dallas.
7 November 2000

Watch Election Returns with Monkeyfist
Watch the election returns with Monkeyfist.com crew.
7 November 2000

Between Theory and Practice: The Surveillance Camera Players
An interview with the Surveillance Camera Players.
2 November 2000

Loathing Bush More
We loathe Gore but loathe Bush more!
23 October 2000

Resist the Repression of Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! does unique service to the body politic; censorship and repression of it must be resisted.
20 October 2000

Hypodermic Death Machines Repeat a Monotonous Tone
A moment of joyful dissent in Austin.
18 October 2000

Austin Protests!
The weekend of October 13 saw protests over a wide-range of social issues, and Monkeyfist.com was there to document them.
18 October 2000

Presidential Debates, Town Halls, and the Corporate Assault on American Democracy
Citizens face near insurmountable structures and forces of control of their access to politicians and candidates. These forces serve corporate interests, whose access is unlimited. This asymmetry is part of the assault on the very idea of the common good.
18 October 2000

Why Cluebot.com is Clueless
Cluebot.com claims to be the dispenser of "clues" about politics and technology. But what you're just as likely to get from it is glib, first world racism.
12 October 2000

Silent Al, Oxy's Pal
Al Gore refuses to speak against Occidental Petroleum's treatment of the U'wa people in Colombia. Gore holds a large stake of Occidental stock. Dallas activists tried to make his reluctance more difficult and more public.
9 October 2000

Beyond Spectacle: Critically Examining the Olympics Industry
The Olympics industry is an irrational spectacle of excess, corporate greed, and apathy toward real human need.
5 October 2000

If We Ran the Presidential Debates...
If the Monkeyfist Collective ran the presidential debates, they'd be different in three ways: first, no corporate sponsors; second, Nader, Buchanan, David McReynolds, and Harry Browne would be included; third, no softball questions.
3 October 2000

INPEG Calls for Solidarity
As police repression heats up in Prague, a call for international solidarity must not go unheeded.
28 September 2000

S26 Dallas
The global day of action, S26, comes to sleepy Dallas, Texas.
28 September 2000

Dallas Rocks World Car Free Day
Dallas, Texas, Land of the Enchanted Smogmobile sees its first Critical Mass on World Car Free Day 2000.
22 September 2000

Kill Your Car: Celebrate World Car Free Day
Kill your car, and the rest will follow.
21 September 2000

Raking Gore's Muck
Al Gore is the only realistic choice for President in 2000. So say many white progressives. And yet Gore stinks from his own political muck. Cockburn and St. Clair's new book demonstrates why.
18 September 2000

The Moral Life of Geeks
In a society that is increasingly undemocratic and fascist, what moral dilemmas do technically-minded people face, and how might they resolve them?
10 September 2000

Beyond Melbourne and Prague: An Exhortation to Local Action
The worldwide movement to oppose corporate globalization continues apace in Melbourne and Prague; when will you bring it to your town?
3 September 2000

Secretaries of Imperialism: From Adams to Albright
Secretary of State Albright's latest statement on Cuba is yet another episode in a long history of American imperialistic propaganda.
30 August 2000

Nigerian Nightmares
Clinton's speech in Nigeria reeks of his unique blend of pro-business propaganda and moral cowardice. Not for the feint of heart or the easily nauseated.
28 August 2000

States of Surveillance
A police state cannot exist without surveillance of dissenting political expression. And that surveillance is ultimately as threatening as police violence and legal entanglements.
21 August 2000

The Ties that Bind
The Republican and Democrats only point of real contention is eager subservience to corporate interests, including those that benefit most from the prison-industrial complex. Ed Rendell is perfectly emblematic of the ties-that-bind.
16 August 2000

Waging War on Political Dissent
Local and federal authorities are acting to criminalize dissent, punish political expression, and increase the costs of protest.
14 August 2000

What Must White Men Do?
What is the role of white men among the protest movements?
9 August 2000

City of Brotherly Harassment
Philadelphia police are taking no chances, squashing political expression and the Constitution with impunity.
1 August 2000

Five Greatest Americans
Who do you think are the five greatest Americans?
26 July 2000

Welcome to Philly?!
Chicago '68 had its Mayor Daley; Philly, 2000, has its Mayor Street. The more things change...
19 July 2000

A Season of Protest: What Should We Expect?
As we approach the next step in this season of protest, what can we expect in Philadelphia and Los Angeles?
18 July 2000

The Gift of Arrogant Scorn
Gore's chance to blunt Nader lies in bashing Nader; but be careful, Al, you wouldn't want to accidentally tell the truth.
12 July 2000

Hacking the Federal Government: Openness and the FOIA
The Freedom of Information Act is one of the most powerful tools in the citizen's toolkit. Learn to use it.
6 July 2000

Nader, the Greens, and the "Crisis of Democracy"
Nader's grassroots campaign of democratic renewal gains momentum, now poses a "threat to democracy."
5 July 2000

Nader Exults
Nader exults after his Green Party Presidential nomination acceptance speech.
5 July 2000

Fourth of July
What is the promise of American liberty?
4 July 2000

Education and Profit
For-profit education is ruinous, and we will regret it.
28 June 2000

We're killing Gary Graham today
No prisoner goes to his death alone, a little bit of every one of us goes with every one of them.
26 June 2000

Green Convention Over the Web
Do the Green thing over the Web.
22 June 2000

Anyone else see this coming?
I never understood the Buchanan-Fulani alliance; now that it's over, I still don't understand it.
19 June 2000

Mastering Topic Maps, or How to be an SGML/XML Super Geek
Topic Maps are way cool and rather complex.
19 June 2000

Nader Rocks
Nader rocks the vote!
19 June 2000

Springsteen is Pro-Cop!
The furor over Bruce Springsteen's new song is as confused as it is insensitive.
14 June 2000

NATO's War Crimes in Kosovo
Amnesty International casts serious doubt upon the NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo.
13 June 2000

Burn, Baby, Burn!
Break 'em up! Stomp 'em down! Burn 'em out!
10 June 2000

Fight, Don't Fear the Panopticon
We are rapidly becoming the Surveillance Society, fulfilling a Benthamite dystopian nightmare; the end of privacy, the end of the Individual, the end of dissent.
10 June 2000

What is Goa Trance Music?
Goa trance music is cool.
9 June 2000

All the Lies Fit to Retract
NY Times retracts its obvious lies.
7 June 2000

Iced tea, beverage of the gods
Chuck Taggart is right about iced tea but wrong about Luzianne.
4 June 2000

The New Old Thing: Working Class Solidarity
Taco Bell is no less a factory than the wickedest 19th century mill; so where is the trade union resurgence?
1 June 2000

PythonLabs Lives!
The center of the Python Universe just shifted.
30 May 2000

Green Party Ballot Triumph in Texas
Green Party of Texas reinvigorates grassroots democracy.
30 May 2000

A Three-Way Breakup Doesn't Go Far Enough
Judge Jackson should be applauded for being willing to break MS up, but he's going about it all the wrong way.
26 May 2000

Freedom House: Press Freedom Survey 2000
How free is the media and the Net around the world?
25 May 2000

Anti-protest Propaganda Intensifies
The Washington Times continues its ignoble tradition of antidemocratic propaganda.
24 May 2000

Flaws in FBI's Uniform Crime Reports Prevent Progress
The FBI's UCR are deeply flawed.
22 May 2000

All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose
Woody Guthrie wrote beautiful and important music, more of it than nearly any other American songwriter.
22 May 2000

"The Unbearable Lameness of Project Censored" is Unbearably Lame
Why must the left eat its own by aping Republicans?
19 May 2000

5th National Independent Politics Summit
IPPN's National Summit in June.
16 May 2000

Chomsky Lecture in New Mexico
A Chomsky lecture in New Mexico proves a spur to thinking about politics and family.
16 May 2000

Myanmar Bans Email
Myanmar, neé Burma, banned email on Saturday.
15 May 2000

Does the federal government still persecute political dissent?
Ward Churchill's COINTELPRO papers are must reading.
15 May 2000

Microsoft the Censorious
When in doubt, MS plays hard ball!
11 May 2000

Seattle -> DC -> Philadelphia
The next highpoint in the American version of the anti-corporate globalism movement will occur in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention.
11 May 2000

It is a global movement!
Seattle and DC were just the coming out parties of American activists.
10 May 2000

Review: Thai Ocha, Houston
Thai Ocha in Houston serves good Thai fare with excellent service.
9 May 2000

Ascent of Texas
Urban scenes in Dallas
9 May 2000

Corporate Arrogance on the Web
Corporatization of the Web continues apace...
9 May 2000

Sierra Leone Starting to Unravel
Foday Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), says the right things ("free our people from poverty; free education for all" etc.) but he's no more than a brutal thug who's trying to seize power and control over Sierra Leone's diamond
9 May 2000

Working Assets Broadcasting
We'd get a lot more stuff like this if Congress weren't trying to kill the low power FM radio legislation.
9 May 2000

Yeah, I'd feel comfortable with this crowd...
Who are they kidding? Me? At a cigar and scotch tasting in a swanky Dallas hotel?
8 May 2000

LinuxCare Layoffs Announced
LinuxCare, just months ago a pre-IPO darling, now faces a very uncertain future.
4 May 2000

Ethics in New Media
Some links to journalistic ethics resources.
4 May 2000

Low Power Radio Coalition
Want low power FM radio? Then fight for it! Call, email or fax your Senator.
3 May 2000

Red Hat Is Not Linux!
Red Hat isn't even cool! Much less is it the totality of the Linux world.
3 May 2000

May Day Support Quiz
Not supporting May Day is a principled and tactical mistake.
3 May 2000

Cracking qua Civil Disobedience
A new generation of political activists is using the Internet to engage in civil disobedience.
28 April 2000

A16 Detainees Finally Freed!
The action isn't over until the last protester is out of jail.
26 April 2000

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
The voice of divine ecstasy.
25 April 2000

A16 Detainees Statement
Statement from the men still incarcerated in DC.
25 April 2000

Why Progressives Should Think Twice About Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods has an undeserved reputation among progressives.
24 April 2000

The Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Lots of facts, figures and analysis of US military exports around the world.
24 April 2000

Assorted Elian Gonzalez & CNN Questions
Musings from watching too much CNN.
22 April 2000

Good UPS for Linux Box?
I'd like to get some user reports about APC's Smart-UPS 700 or 1000.
22 April 2000

Renowned Logician, Jon Barwise, Dead at 58
Jon Barwise was an influential and important philosopher and logician.
21 April 2000

Low Power Radio in Trouble
Is it any wonder that the Senate doesn't like low power radio?
21 April 2000

Earth Day 2000 Greenwash Sweepstakes
Greenwash: polluters pretending to be environmentalists so they can do more polluting.
20 April 2000

DC Jail Solidarity
The action isn't over until the last one's out of jail.
20 April 2000

National Review's Right-Wing Fantasies
The National Review's Reality Distortion Field is working overtime.
18 April 2000

Worker-CEO Earnings Gap Grows Wider
Oh, but they're worth it; who else lacks the requisite moral sense necessary to exploit foreign workers while firing domestic ones? That takes extraordinary talent. Most people are too decent!
18 April 2000

a16.monkeyfist.com signing off
Wrapping up A16.Monkeyfist.com
18 April 2000

Mf: Evil of Two Lessers, Part II
Have a second helping of steaming hot Monkeyfist content.
18 April 2000

North Texas Greens Involved in Mass Arrests at the IAC's Prison-Industrial Complex Rally on Saturday
3 Dallas-area Greens report their involvement in the mass arrests on Saturday in DC.
18 April 2000

Noam Chomsky On IMF/WB Debt Forgiveness
zmag.org features Noam Chomsky who speaks out about IMF/World Bank and debt forgiveness.
17 April 2000

Interview with Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, anti-corporate ecofeminist from India, speaks truth about power.
17 April 2000

Democracy Now!
Democracy now!
17 April 2000

Police Savagely Attack Protesters
What leads police to be able to do this?
16 April 2000

Radical Puppets!
Radical Street Puppets Create Carnival of Democracy
15 April 2000

Police Crack Down Leaves Protesters Undeterred
The police crackdown starts to heat up.
15 April 2000

Soccer Showdown!
Soccer Showdown: Anarchists v. World Bankers
15 April 2000

Blogit.pitas.com following A16
Jeff Wiggin is tracking A16 on his Blogit site.
14 April 2000

What do the Anarchists intend?
Let's see what the anarchists intend.
14 April 2000

Protests and Tactics
Watch out for sloppy reporting that smears everyone with a confused brush.
14 April 2000

Police: To Protect Business Property and Serve the Owners
To protect what and to serve whom?
14 April 2000

The Giant Eel Battle is Oh-vah!
I'm not the only one.
14 April 2000

Jorn Kills Weblogs List
Don't tease us, Jorn; kill it for real.
12 April 2000

ZNet -- World Trade Crisis
ZMag provides a site chock full of top-flight analysis of the political economy behind World Bank and IMF.
12 April 2000

Filipino Activists Censored
Censorship and pepper spray!
12 April 2000

Welcome to the Whirled Bank: Our Dream is a World Full of Poverty
The Internet interprets evil globalization as evil and satirizes it.
11 April 2000

World Bank boycott campaign
Let's hit the World Bank where it'll hurt the most: squarely on the bottom line!
11 April 2000

OneWorld.net Campaigns: IMF & World Bank
OneWorld.net's A16 source page is up...
11 April 2000

7 Arrested in IMF Protests
Washington Post reports on some early arrests.
10 April 2000

Revolutionary Gardening
A16 isn't just about street protest but about the transformation of the ordinary too.
10 April 2000

Protesters target IMF meeting (BBC News)
The BBC takes a less pro-IMF/World Bank knee jerk look at the A16 protests.
10 April 2000

Protesters Converging on DC
Protesters are converging on D.C. in large numbers.
10 April 2000

50 Years is Enough! U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
50 Years is too much.
9 April 2000

Do the protesters have alternatives?
Lots of ancillary events focus on alternatives to the IMF and World Bank.
8 April 2000

Report on Nader & LaDuke in MN
The Nader/LaDuke event was a success for Minnesota Greens.
8 April 2000

A16 Medical Collective
Preparing for the inevitable...
7 April 2000

Free Speech in Short Supply in D.C. High Schools
In high school in DC? No free speech for you!
7 April 2000

Dick Armey Toes the Redmond Line
Bill Gates and Dick Armey make a fine team!
7 April 2000

IMF Denying Press Credentials to Non-corporate Media
IMF playing media hardball.
6 April 2000

A Dozen Reasons to Come to DC for April 16
Mokhiber and Weissman give 12 reasons to participate in DC.
6 April 2000

A Beginner's Guide to Debt Crisis
Wondering why should the World Bank, the IMF and the U.S. cancel foreign debt? Jubilee 2000's Debt Crisis Guide will tell you.
5 April 2000

The Evil of Two Lessers (Part One)
Original Monkeyfist content; get it while it's hot!
5 April 2000

Mozambique Hurt by Debt Cancellation Refusals
Mozambique's $2.1B debt to the World Bank/IMF makes rebuilding civil society nearly impossible.
4 April 2000

Florham Park, NJ: Spank The Bank
Florham Park, NJ seems to be the first out of the block.
4 April 2000

Monkeyfist covers A16.DC: The Mobilization for Global Justice
Monkeyfist starts a new Web site to track the World Bank/IMF protests in Washington D.C. and around the world.
3 April 2000

Protest Art: Post it in your neighborhood
Use this protest art to bring the protest to your neighborhood.
3 April 2000

What is the World Bank/IMF?
Why are people protesting in D.C.?
3 April 2000

Mike Moore's Letter to Elian Gonzalez
Michael Moore writes "a letter to Elian".
3 April 2000

The Torture Reporting Handbook
It's a terribly sad thing that we need such a book, but since we do, I'm glad it's on the Web.
31 March 2000

No one is cooler than Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer is a treasure.
31 March 2000

Free Speech? Not in America.
Free speech in America is sometimes a sick joke.
29 March 2000

Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? A Brief Profile of Anti-Corporate Activists
Korten and Grossman are coming to Texas. Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? Read on, fair reader, read on...
29 March 2000

Free Software "Community" My Ass!
You can't have a community relationship with Red Hat, Inc.
29 March 2000

Texas Plant Explosion Injures 71
Explosion on Chemical Row near Houston Ship Channel.
28 March 2000

Everything you ever wanted to know about Mack the Knife
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear...
28 March 2000

Personal mechanized writing devices
I love classic manual typewriters. Why? They represent the true precursors of the personal computer and were the first serious democritazation of Gutenberg's genius.
27 March 2000

The Electrohippies' Electronic Civil Disobedience Website
Can't make it to D.C. for the IMF protests? Then participate in the Electrohippies electronic civil disobedience: shut down the IMF/World Bank Web sites.
27 March 2000

Project Censored: Tracking the News that Didn't Make the News
Project Censored has a new Web site; find out what they haven't been telling you.
25 March 2000

The Texas Museum Scene
The Houston art scene is one of the most vibrant in the country, supported by, and supporting, a rich museum scene as well.
23 March 2000

How many more? The killing of Patrick Dorismond
The Diallo killers are acquitted and police violence spikes upward in NYC. A coincidence?
22 March 2000

Buy this album now!
Buena Vista Social Club rules.
22 March 2000

What is a Dyson sphere?
Freeman Dyson wins the Templeton Prize? Maybe it was for the Dyson Sphere?
22 March 2000

Howard Zinn on Free Speech in America
Zinn takes a hard look at American tendencies toward denying free speech.
21 March 2000

Nader at UVA, Charlottesville
Nader campaign events in Virginia.
20 March 2000

Army Psyops Setting CNN Editorial Policy?
During the Kosovo so-called "humanitarian intervention" Army Psyops personnel "interned" at CNN.
20 March 2000

Have you seen this man?
H. Rap Brown is on the run.
19 March 2000

Erin Brockovich: Film and the Gendering of Citizenship
I loved all the movies this one reminds me of, but I'm disturbed by some of them at the same time.
18 March 2000

Vermont Leads the Nation
Vermont now leads the nation in civil rights.
17 March 2000

Man Hunger Strikes re: rbGH
Do you want to feed genetically-engineered milk to your children?
17 March 2000

Pyxie: Python and XML
Python gets a new XML API: Pyxie.
16 March 2000

Monkeyfist Mutations
Changes at Monkeyfist.
15 March 2000

Update on the Boeing Strike
The Boeing engineer strike enters the second month, and it's starting to cost Boeing investors some serious money.
14 March 2000

ICANN's Proposal to the U.S. Government to Perform the IANA Function
How is the publicly-invented, built and maintained Internet privatized? Read it for yourself.
14 March 2000

Nader on the ballot in 50 states
Nader, speaking at University of Nevada, promises he and the Greens will be on the ballot in 50 states.
14 March 2000

Why Ralph Nader?
Why does Nader deserve the Presidency?
13 March 2000

omniORB for Python
If you need to prototype CORBA apps, omniORB for Python may be your best bet.
13 March 2000

Nader in Philly
News of the Nader event in Philly.
9 March 2000

Israeli parliament to legalize torture?
Is the Israeli parliament going to legalize torture in a split from the Isaraeli Supreme Court?
9 March 2000

Watch out for the flying pigs
When Dave Winer starts saying things I agree with, watch out for flying pigs.
9 March 2000

Good news for Nader in the CA returns
Extensive election results from California available.
8 March 2000

Nader in San Francisco
Listen to Nader's Green Party event in San Francisco
8 March 2000

Al Gore, Corporate Welfare Environmentalist
We can't afford Gore's kind of environmentalism.
7 March 2000

International Women's Day, March 8th
March 8th is International Women's Day.
6 March 2000

Peace Without Profit: How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique
Massive flooding in Mozambique is only part of the problem there; IMF strangulation makes it worse.
6 March 2000

Python for Lisp Programmers
Mr Artificial Intelligence likes Python.
5 March 2000

Civil Liberties Crackdown in the UK
The coming crackdown re: online, electronic civil liberties is going to happen in the UK first.
5 March 2000

Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir was the real philosopher; Sartre was just a poseur.
4 March 2000

New MFers
Welcoming the new MFers.
3 March 2000

Remembrance Agent Rocks!
Remembrance Agent watches you and remembers what you do.
2 March 2000

Talk to the Monkey
Tell us what you think of Monkeyfist.
2 March 2000

Update: Supreme Court Protest on Monday
A eyewitness account of what it was like on Monday, Feb 28, at the death penalty protest at the Supreme Court.
2 March 2000

A16: Mobilization for Global Justice
Non-violent protests planned for April 16th meeting of World Bank and IMF.
1 March 2000

XML Namespaces FAQ
A comprehensive, technical FAQ on all aspects of XML namespaces.
1 March 2000

Civil Rights and the "Hacker Menace"
As predicted here last month, lawmakers move toward restricting civil liberties to combat the "hacker menace".
1 March 2000

Odell Barnes: Texas Killing an Innocent Man?
Some of the forensic evidence used to convict Odell Barnes, scheduled to die in Texas today, appears to have been planted by police.
1 March 2000

Monkeyfist Outage
Monkeyfist is dead; Long live Monkeyfist!
1 March 2000

Tell Dr. Laura what you think of her hate-mongering
Dr. Laura spews hate over the public airwaves; it's time to tell her to shut up.
28 February 2000

Dealth Penalty Abolition Protest at Supreme Court
Protests at Supreme Court in opposition to death penalty.
28 February 2000

Screw Amazon, Use Powells
Amazon.com is patent-happy; so use Powells. A boycott is always more effective if it helps the non-icky competitor.
28 February 2000

Demonstrations for Diallo
Thousands demonstrate in NYC, demanding justice for Amadou Diallo.
28 February 2000

Vyper, Python on functional steroids
Vyper is a new, functional variant of Python.
26 February 2000

Cops Acquitted of Diallo Murder
41 shots, 19 wounds but no one is responsible?
26 February 2000

The next Seattle...
Where is the next Seattle going to be? Stay tuned to Monkeyfist for details.
25 February 2000

United Students Against Sweatshops
The all-students-are-slackers myth is horseshit; but since the mainstream media ignores campus activism, you'd have to be on a campus regularly to even know about it.
24 February 2000

Cuba Handbook
Planning a trip to Cuba?
24 February 2000

Walter Mosley, Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walter Mosely is a genius of popular fiction. That's the easy part. He's also a perceptive social critic with a Marxist bent.
23 February 2000

Squeak Smalltalk: A Quick Reference
Smalltalk is my 3rd favorite language I don't know well yet, behind only Common Lisp and Dylan. If you're trying to learn Squeak too, this is a good reference work.
23 February 2000

Nader in Texas
Nader will speak at the University of Houston on March 11.
23 February 2000

Don't Racist Yahoo! Clubs Violate the Terms of Service?
There are lots of racist, hate-filled Yahoo! Clubs that violate their Terms of Service. Why doesn't Yahoo shut them down?
22 February 2000

Eighth International Python Conference: Proceedings Online
I told you Python was the best high-level language available today; here's the proof.
22 February 2000

South Carolina poll scandal
Salon.com reporter is naive or just stupid? Perhaps both.
22 February 2000

PerDiS: Persistent Distributed Store
PerDiS is a persistent distributed object store.
18 February 2000

Fast, Free Prototyping in Python
Should have been called "Why Python kicks Visual Basic's ass!"
17 February 2000

Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group
Rick Moen gets the whole LUG thing.
17 February 2000

The Mysteries of ISBN Revealed
Ever wondered what the hell those numbers are on the back of your new book?
17 February 2000

Ecommerce and A Civil Liberties Crackdown
Now that ecommerce is the raison d'etre of all information technology, particularly the internet, we'll see a new wave of civil liberties crackdowns to "safeguard" the enrichment of a greedy few.
16 February 2000

Dying for Growth, Jim Yong Kim
Dying for Growth explodes the myths of the WTO, IMF and their ilk: that development loans improve the developing world; that "big government" is the enemy of people; that free markets are a cure-all or reall free at all.
15 February 2000

The Cyanide Leak that Ate Europe
A new specter is haunting Europe, the specter of cyanide gas.
15 February 2000

Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There With You : The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dyson takes on the unjustified and misleading deification of MLK in order to show MLK to be a real moral hero.
14 February 2000

Noam Chomsky, Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization
A new Chomsky book is an event to celebrate.
14 February 2000

Uncle Larry, OS Super Genius
Larry McVoy is the Mr Wizard of linux-kernel.
13 February 2000

Two million is too many!
Why with less than 5% of the world's population does the US have 25% of the world's inmates?
11 February 2000

Seattle PD WTO Suspect Snitch Page
These people ought to be given medals.
10 February 2000

Clinton Stinks of Cash
His money grabbing ruined my nice evening drive... Grrr!
10 February 2000

Free speech and corporations
You can't say what you want about corporations? You can't say bad things about corporations?
10 February 2000

Haider Protests in Europe
Europeans don't piss and moan; they take their fights to the streets.
9 February 2000

Advice on Internet Credit Card Processing?
Who clears CC transactions over the Web in an Apache-Linux-CGI friendly way?
9 February 2000

BisonGen
Python parser generator from the smart guys at 4Thought.
9 February 2000

Fascism on the Democratic Stump
What are they so afraid of?
7 February 2000

SUBTERFUGUE: Using Python to Monitor and Script the Linux Kernel
SUBTERFUGUE is a Python interface on the Linux kernel; kind of like a cross between strace and expect. It's wild, it's dangerous, it can hose your system.
7 February 2000

The Prison Industry
Prison labor for corporations is abominable. It puts regular joes out of work and exploits the very people that should be getting rehabilitated all for greater corporate profit.
7 February 2000

J.A. Henckels rules
Henckels cutlery rules.
6 February 2000

Editorial integrity? Slashdot?
The concerns about Slashdot's editorial integrity are missing the point.
4 February 2000

Time can flow backwards
So time can go backwards? Does this mean I'll be getting my rent check back soon?
3 February 2000

Vaporize Your Enemies! Nuclear Blast Mapper
Vaporize your enemies for fun and profit.
3 February 2000

Essential late-night dissertation music...
Billy Bragg is the only thing to listen to in the small hours, when there's miles of dissertation to go before you sleep.
3 February 2000

Python Programming on Win 32
Python might make programming on Win 32 bearable.
2 February 2000

Python 1.6 alpha Due Soon
New Python alpha release due soon.
2 February 2000

The Wiki Frontier
Mark Guzdial engages in a bit of subversive, first-strike declaration of prior art in case of more patent madness.
2 February 2000

Linux beta of Lugaru's Epsilon
Epsilon is a legendary Emacs-like editor for DOS and Windows since the early days of DOS 2.0. It's now available for Linux. This should be interesting.
2 February 2000

XML Query Language
XML Query Language: XML meets SQL3?
2 February 2000

Book: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
A great read for the beginning of African American History Month, which starts today.
1 February 2000

Kenneth T. Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier, or How did America become Suburbanized?
How did American turn into a vast suburban wasteland?
1 February 2000

Update: Pacifica Strike
Pacifica strike details available.
31 January 2000

Strike at Pacifica Radio
Journalists strike Pacifica over censorship.
31 January 2000

The Republican Mosh Pit
How did Michael Moore start a mosh pit for Republican presidential candidates?
31 January 2000

Lynx-friendly MonkeyLog
31 January 2000

Protests at Davos
Protests in Davos on Saturday, but the AP wire reports should be read very critically.
31 January 2000

Blackfoot Nation to declare its independence?
Blackfoot Nation meeting to consider declaring its independence of the United States and Canada.
31 January 2000

Open Source Writers Group: Updated Web Site
OSWG is a good group of open source documentation folks. They are debuting a new Web site.
31 January 2000

Jubilee 2000: A debt free start for a billion people
31 January 2000

Spicy (Wasabi) Roasted Green Peas
Wasabi peas are food of the gods.
31 January 2000

Media Giant Bertelsmann Concedes Nazi Past
Bertelsmann, on of the largest English-language publishers in the world, admits Nazi past.
30 January 2000

Online Petition: Free All Political Prisoners in U.S
Sign a petition expressing support for freeing of political prisoners in America.
30 January 2000

Ustashe and Catholic Church?
Did the Catholic Church aid and abet Ustashe?
30 January 2000

Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
It's a book about nothing and everything.
29 January 2000

SAX2-Beta
SAX2 Beta for Java is available.
28 January 2000

SOTU Propaganda
Clinton's 2000 SOTU was full of lies, half-truths and distortions, two of which were particularly tiresome.
28 January 2000

Just run Junkbuster
Stop all the whining and do something about the corporatization of the Web.
28 January 2000

JEmacs - the Java/Scheme-based Emacs
JEmacs is a Java implementation of Emacs. Sound scary? Never fear, Per Bothner is here!
28 January 2000

Name dropping madness
27 January 2000

Congress opts for censorship
Drug war's failure got you down? Why not violate the Constitution and censor drug speech?
27 January 2000

Book: Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West
Canaries on the Rim tells an ugly story of environmental spoilage in the West.
26 January 2000

CD: The Prison Industrial Complex, Angela Davis
26 January 2000

JPython 1.1 available
JPython is the 100% Java implementation of the World's Greatest Scripting Language, Python.
26 January 2000

Coldstore: Object Persistence on Linux
Coldstore is an object persistence mechanism for Linux. It isn't finished, but it's progressing nicely.
26 January 2000

CD of the Week: Free Market Fantasies, Noam Chomsky
Originally released via AK Press/ Allied; re-issued December 1999 by AT. A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing da
26 January 2000

The Politics of Micro Radio
The politics of Micro Radio don't look good.
25 January 2000

"Life is better without braces": The Eighth International Python Conference
The 8th Annual International Python Conference is taking place this week.
24 January 2000

Daily Davos Web site
Dailydavos.com is a Web site published by Newsweek.
24 January 2000

Monkeyfist is Moving
24 January 2000

It's Granny D.'s Birthday
Granny D. is walking across America to bring attention to the problems of campaign finance reform. Oh, yeah, she's 90.
24 January 2000

SurfNotes
SurfNotes is a browser companion for taking notes on Web sites.
24 January 2000

Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin is the most important Civil Rights leader you've never heard of.
24 January 2000

Paradises Lost and Found
21 January 2000

The Sources of George W. Bush
George Bush's political ambitions, in Texas and nationally, float upon a never-ending tide of scummy money.
21 January 2000

Elian Gonzalez is For Sale!
The rabid right-wingers who have essentially kidnapped Elian Gonzalez have now put him up for sale.
21 January 2000

Obscure Book of the Day: Concurrent Programming in Erlang
Concurrent Programming in Erlang is a guide to learning Erlang.
21 January 2000

Stackless Python 1.0
Stackless Python 1.0 is 3--5% faster than Python 1.5.2.
20 January 2000

Someone remind me why Cuba is so terrible?
I'd rather be poor or a person of color in Havana than in Washington D.C.
20 January 2000

Chocolate Egg Cream: Good For What Ails Ya
Life got you down? Chocolate Egg Cream to the rescue.
20 January 2000

The Rich Get Richer
How can any politician take credit for this? The gap between rich and poor is shameful; why are Clinton and Gore so proud?
20 January 2000

New Abolitionist Society
The New Abolitionists are traitors to the "white" race, and it's a damn good thing!
20 January 2000

Davos and the Propaganda of Inclusion
To understand the talk of inclusion in Davos, you have to understand what the implied boundaries of globalization are.
19 January 2000

Wesf in shorts?!?!
Wes Felter in shorts?!!?! Run and hide.
19 January 2000

Star Wars Boondoggle
"Star Wars" technology is a defense contractor boondoggle to the tune of $3.3B in the present budget and as much as $55B since 1983.
19 January 2000

Datatypes for DTDs (DT4DTD)
DTDs get datatypes.
19 January 2000

Old School: NET.sources - ucf-cs.493
Back in the day, Usenet was a nice place to be.
19 January 2000

Davos SUCKS
Davos is undemocratic, secretive and elitist.
18 January 2000

Monkeyfist: Bad Router!
18 January 2000

The Heat is Online
Global warming is a serious issue.
18 January 2000

Update: GPL and Novell
Update on Novell and GPL issue.
17 January 2000

"Letter From the Birmingham Jail"
MLK's historic "Letter From the Birmingham Jail"
17 January 2000

THE DEBT: What America Owes Blacks
Randall Robinson makes a compelling case for black reparations.
17 January 2000

CourierWare: Indestructible Handmade Bags
CourierWare makes damn fine bags!
17 January 2000

Novell violates GPL?
Novell violates the GPL?
17 January 2000

"Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?"
James Cone explores the meaning of Martin and Malcolm for America.
17 January 2000

Obscure Book of the Day: "Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation"
15 January 2000

An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation
Paul Wilson's excellent online book about Scheme.
15 January 2000

Dylan means Functional Objects
Dylan is an advanced programming language that combines functional and OOP styles seamlessly.
14 January 2000

Obscure Book of the Day: A Giacometti Portrait
James Lord's book, A Giacometti Portrait, provides great insight into the work of artists.
14 January 2000

The Sopranos: As Good as TV Gets
An excellent preview of the sophomore season of The Sopranos.
14 January 2000

Type Inference in Smalltalk
Lex Spoon's type inference engine for Smalltalk.
13 January 2000

Nader is Running
Nader is announcing for President on Jan 19.
13 January 2000

Living Wage Campaign
ACORN's Living Wage Campaigns seek to raise the standard of living of workers around the country by insisting that employers pay a living wage.
13 January 2000

Category Theory
category theory, functional programming, ML
13 January 2000

Obscure Book of the Day: The Concept of Time
12 January 2000

What have you done about democracy?
12 January 2000

PLWM: The Pointless Window Manager
Python, Window Manager, X Window
12 January 2000

Learn Smalltalk
12 January 2000

Wither compassion?
Will some journalist ask George W. these questions?
12 January 2000

Swiki.net
Swiki collaborative groupware
12 January 2000

Free Lori Berenson
11 January 2000

Elvis and Tricky Dick Save America
11 January 2000

Fascism in the Heart Land
11 January 2000

Good Riddance to Pacifica Foundation
11 January 2000