Richard Bennet, whose bite famously equals his bark, issues this challenge to Geeks who long for favorable political action, but seem slow to get down to work (present company included):

I'd like to suggest an exercise for our utopian technologists: show how your technology can affect the passage of a legislative bill on a measure close to your heart; then try to make it happen in real life, and analyze why your expected result didn't materialize. Then let's talk about world hunger.

We have a weblog here. It's a technology. At best it's necessary, but it's far short of sufficient to our challenge.

It's time to get back to work. Let's regroup and do the hard stuff.