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b!X
b!X
is the official guerrilla techno-fetishist of the Global Effort
to Eradicate Know-nothings (GeekForce).
The former owner and operator of a cybercafe in Portland OR,
he now spends his time trying to rebuild his life without that
to fall back on when asked, "So what do you do?
If for some reason you are horridly interested in random and
sundry details, you can lose yourself in the links at GeekForce.
If you live in Portland and happen to know of a comparatively
cheap apartment like the one The Fonz lived in on Happy Days,
feel free to let him know.
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JACK
CURTIN
A firm believer
in A. E. Houseman's dictum that "malt does more than Milton
can to justify God's ways to man," Jack Curtin writes about
good beer almost as often as he does about good (and bad) politics.
A lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, he is currently
a Contributing Writer for Philadelphia Weekly and does alternating
weekly columns, "Liquid Diet" and "Medium Cool," for a small
group of suburban newspapers.
During
a freelance career spanning three decades, he's also written
extensively about such diverse topics as comic books, health
care, crime fiction and sports. Most recently, he's taken up
short story writing, perhaps to provide protective cover for
his novel-too-long-in-progress, "Truth Is the Perfect Disguise."
Jack's calling his column The Great Disconnect because he believes
that's an accurate summation of the current state of American
politics. He'll use this space to explain why.
Jack
also shares the creative credit for Cartoon
Caucus, a sharp edged new political cartoon series
drawn by Rob Davis.
More
of Jack's writings can be found at the Jack
Curtin web site.
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BDURFEE
bdurfee
writes tirelessly for the Internet to try to atone for her years
spent working on the dark side... no, not advertising. She has
a soul, dammit. But newspapers. The kind of newspaper that reports
on the planning commission and on whether the city is going
to annex the sewage system of its neighbors. The kind that reports
on whirling disease in trout and how it affects the few remaining
lesbian-cannibal Anasazis. The things, by gawd, that matter
to no one but the paper's publisher. She writes to atone.
Oh,
and because politickin' is so darn fun!
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VIRGIL
HUSTON
Virgil
sees the political spectrum as a circle, rather than a straight
line, and describes himself as so far right that he's left.
He is a political activist and the editor of The
Edgefield Journal, a Southern conservative newspaper
with a strong focus on politics. He's also th director of a
nonprofit organization that researches and reports on self-determination
movements worldwide.
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ROBERT
MILLER
Witty?
Absolutely. Wise? No doubt. Insightful? Of Course. Neurotic?
Idiosyncrasies galore. Modest? Without question.
Robert
R. Miller has been writing since an early age, always eying
politics, history and life with humor and mirth. His greatest
talent may be acumen, but his most visible is undoubtedly tactlessness.
Mockery, sarcasm, irony... Call it what you will, satire is
the permeating tint in all of Robert's writing. An equal opportunity
destroyer, Republicans, Democrats, Reformers, Libertarians...
All will be the subject of fierce scrutiny in his column. The
Prince will focus on the masterful political moves by all relatively
well-known politicians and not simply the Presidential candidates,
the white house ain't the only game in town.
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LEWIS
NAPPER
Lewis
Napper is an amateur philosopher and a professional geek. He
uses Nietzsche quotes to comment his C++ code. Raised in Louisiana
— the state where government corruption was first perfected
— Lewis became keenly interested in politics for obvious
reasons.
He’s
had two books
published on computer programming and is famous on the Internet
for writing The
Bill Of No Rights. Several of his articles From DEEP Inside The Binary
Bunker have been published in various magazines and
read on popular radio talk shows.
He
was raised by good, hard-working parents who struggled to instill
in him a sense of honesty and the work ethic. They succeeded
- eventually. He managed to spend more than a decade of his
life attending Louisiana Tech University before finally being
forced to graduate. He is married to the most wonderful woman
who ever walked the face of the earth and has two daughters
and one brand new granddaughter who are also too good for this
world.
He
has borrowed money to pay the IRS and doesn’t understand
why he couldn’t buy ibuprofen for so long. He fought hard
against the campaign to demand the death penalty for anyone
convicted of attempted suicide.
Lewis
is a slightly paranoid, Christian libertarian and was last seen
typing somewhere in Mississippi. He is expending a tremendous
amount of time, money, and energy this year running for the
U.S. Senate against Trent Lott. He now wonders if he shouldn't
have established a post office box in New York and run against
Hillary instead.
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WILLIAM
RIVERS PITT
William
Rivers Pitt was born in Washington D.C., and has lived in Alabama
and San Francisco. Obviously, he is deranged. He spent several
years working as a paralegal and technical advisor for various
law firms. Currently he is a teacher of English and History
in a high school outside of Boston.
Secretly,
he wants to be Hunter S. Thompson when he grows up. A writer
of short stories, William is currently working on a novel about
the dangers of technology run amok. No, it doesn't have anything
to do with Al Gore.
He
welcomes reader email, and can be reached at w_pitt@hotmail.com.
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JOHN
MICHAEL SCALZI
John
Scalzi will write about anything if you pay him enough money.
Right now he happens to be writing on politics, something that
he's done off and on since the waning years of the Reagan Administration.
Scalzi's column on Newt
Gingrich and giraffes, which originally appeared
in the Fresno Bee in 1995, is one of the most famous bits of
e-mail ever to be forwarded on the 'Net - do a keyword search
on "Scalzi," "Gingrich" and "Giraffes" and it'll pop up on dozens
of Web sites (people apparently still don't like Newt).
In past lives, Scalzi has been a nationally syndicated humor
columnist and film critic, as well as America Online's first
full-time writer and editor, during which time he also wrote
weekly and daily columns on the service. Currently, when he's
not writing about politics, Scalzi is National Music Writer
for MediaOne/Road Runner, Editor-in-Chief of
GameDad, a videogame review
site for parents, and the author of "Online Banking and Finance:
The Rough Guide," which will be published in the fall of 2000
(start saving your pennies now). For kicks and giggles, he also
wrote a science fiction novel, which he put up on the Web after
several science fiction publishing houses failed to recognize
his genius with large sums of money. It and even more writing
await you at Scalzi's
personal Website.
Scalzi lives outside of Washington DC with his wife, daughter,
dog, cat and mortgage. He is registered as an independent and
thinks you should be, too.
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JOY
SCHULENBERG
A
native of Chicago, Joy Schulenburg relocated to the San Francisco
Bay Area in 1978. She has periodically been active in local
politics and community organizing in between raising a teenage
daughter and running a small consulting business.
She
holds a B.A. in journalism and a Master's degree in sociology
and has written extensively on women's issues and current events
for a variety of national and international publications and
the Internet. As a public speaker, she has appeared widely on
radio and television and as a guest lecturer at universities
and private seminars.
She is a firm believer in the power of laughter to build bridges
across diverse ideologies.
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MARINA
STREZNEWSKI
Washington-based
writer Marina Streznewski is a lifelong political junkie. Her
campaign experience has included extensive volunteer service
in numerous federal and local elections. She served for three
years as vice president for political affairs of the Woman's
National Democratic Club in Washington, where she launched and
edited the WNDC Political Action Dispatch and represented the
club on television and radio talk shows. In addition, Streznewski
has served on the boards of a number of nonprofit agencies.
She
remains active in local Washington politics and committed to
increasing direct citizen control of government by maximizing
voter turnout and radically reforming the campaign finance system.
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DON
WREGE
Don
is a senior producer at XOR Network Engineering, a website production
and strategy company in Boulder , Colorado. He's also a very
sharp, very funny writer, editor, and radio personality.
You're
prolly wondering why Don calls his column Blowing Smoke. Even
if you aren't wondering, we're going to tell you anyway, because
it's a cool story.
The
tradition of blending political awareness and blowing smoke
began early in his family.
It all started with a clever, self-financing marketplace polling
device created by Don's father and grandfather who had a family
tobacco factory in North Carolina (Don and his brothers all
worked in the factory). For the 1952 presidential election,
they produced two brands of cigarettes - one labeled "I Like
Ike," and the other, "Stevenson for President." Ultimately,
the tabulated sales of these two brands (identical tobacco blend,
different package) more closely matched the actual presidential
vote count than did the political prognosticators' predictions.
Examples
of those two cigarette packages are now in the collection of
The Smithsonian Institution.
And
Don is still blowing smoke.
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