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Submitted February 24, 2004 - 1:44 am by Jeff Wegerson
I live in Edgewater, Chicago. I'm against the drug war and it was either that or Latin American politics that lead me to NarcoNews. I switched to BigLeftOutside with Narco's hiatus and have Al's comments at DailyKos.com bookmarked for additional Giordano political fixes.

As a "political hippie" I worked on the "underground" papers of the 60's and 70's (The San Francisco Express Times, The Chicago Seed, The Viet Nam GI) and lived communally in California, Colorado and Wisconsin. I worked on the Harold Washington campaign for Chicago Mayor in the 80's.

I made sure that my daughters learned the most relevant second language for an American in Chicago, Spanish, and wish my parents had had the same foresight.

I manage information with computers as a job, and I'm following closely the impact of the internet on the political process. The surface has only been scratched on the democratic potentials within the realms of internet software, I believe.

When asked after 9/11 how I thought the war on terror would go, I replied, about as well as the war on drugs.

Two years before the Pentagon let the cat out of the bag I was following William Calvin's thoughts on an Ice Age caused by Global Warming. (Free on the web - A Brain for all Seasons.)

I believe that the best swimming in the world is on Lake Michigan in July and August.

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