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Name: Eric Schechter
Location: Nashville, TN 37203
Website: math.vanderbilt.edu/people/schechter/my_politics

My Interests:

Media reform, progressive economics, ending the war and global warming, progressive philosophy. For my day job, I teach math at Vanderbilt.

Political Skills:

Some web pages and some speeches.

Favorite Quote:

[Lakoff] Respond by reframing.

[Waldman] We're all in this together.

[Franklin] It is the first responsibility of every citizen
to question authority.

[Goldman] If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

[Orwell, paraphrased slightly] Make love, not war.

[Buddha] Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

[Camara] When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

[Niemoller] In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. ...

[Ehrmann] Go placidly amidst the noise and haste ...

About Me:

Male, 56, pastafarian. Currently my favorite news sources are Alternet.org, BookTV, Stewart and Colbert. You can see my half minute of television news at
http://www.wkrn.com/node/22432#top. And here is 6 minutes on youtube that includes a half minute of me.

My girlfriend is the best political companion I could wish for. We talk and do other things late into the night.

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