Your Website Doesn't Matter | The Next Right

Patrick Ruffini makes some great points about the application of cognitive surplus on the Right having shaped the state of politics online so far. His key point is that what the Right really needs right now is infrastructure and distributed tools. There’s really no want for issue groups, and perhaps focusing all of our energy on an agenda, broad though it might be, isn’t as efficacious as developing the platform and tools to empower the movement in general.

McCain Staffer Turns His Candidate Into A Joke The Whole Internet Can Enjoy

I wonder if Mark Soohoo actually coordinated the message "John McCain is aware of the Internet" with the campaign's communication staff, or just came up with it on his own...

From The Huffington Post:

Inactivism: Your problems will solve themselves

Activism is great, as long as you don't expect the Federal Government to be the solution to everything.

Jonah Goldberg on Laziness, Inactivity, Progress, & Conservatism on National Review Online: "The 'Just Don't' school holds that most problems solve themselves. If nobody else will solve your problems for you, you will be far more likely to fix your own problems. This is a naturalistic philosophy in that it embraces the natural order of things. No creature — except for man — takes responsibility for the ecosystem it lives in. Sharks eat as much as they can eat. Birds fly where they want to fly. Bears crap in the woods without so much as a 'by your leave' from park rangers. Everybody does what they do and the ecosystem achieves balance because of it."

Cross & Crescent » Brother Dies Saving Woman

Robert Cook, a true hero and brother, laid down his life to save a complete stranger, embodying the core values of the fraternity to the last full measure.