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March 10, 2006

Mike's New Job!

I'm happy to say I've joined a nonprofit in San Francisco called CompuMentor. They're a technology resource for nonprofits, providing information, support, volunteer matching, and an online store (TechSoup Stock) for qualifying organizations. I'll be focused on the international enablement of the online store, in conjunction with strategic technology partners and NGO's around the world. When the work, people and purpose all lined up, I thought I should give it a shot.

Interesting thing about looking for a job: you really feel part of a community. From friends (old and new) to complete strangers: it seemed everywhere I looked, someone was giving me useful information or helping me make a connection. I am very grateful.

More to follow!

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March 06, 2006

The Neocon Temptation

I'm certainly no fan of Patrick Buchanan, but his comments in the paper this weekend struck me as scarily prescient:

"Were this a financial investment, Iraq would have been written off and our losses cut a long time ago. But for Bush to write it off is to write himself off as a failed president who committed the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history.

And so the president is now being offered a way out by his neocon counselors: escalate. Take the war to the enemy, as we should have from the beginning. Use U.S. air power to wipe Iran's nuclear facilities off the map. Go all-out for victory. Emulate Lincoln, Churchill, FDR, Truman.

With his poll ratings in the pits, and his party facing almost certain and heavy losses in the fall, Bush may yet yield to the neocon temptation. For unlike LBJ in 1968, he does not seem reconciled to going back to his ranch as a failed president."

Let us pray otherwise...