Fox News is the *only* media outlet that has ever gone to court to win the right to fabricate stories and broadcast them as news. The attorneys for Fox argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.” And they won. Learn about the alleged deception [...]
A baby step was taken last night in Health Insurance Reform. That’s right, I said “a baby step” because despite all the whining by conservatives… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM[/youtube] …very little has actually changed. Most provisions of the reform bills don’t even kick in for four years, including mandatory health insurance, which conservatives liken to “big government” and [...]
Imagine, for a moment, if Pentagon officials, supposedly toiling in our name, actually condescended to ask us for our thoughts. What do we think about global military strategy, garrisoning the planet, the ways in which our forces are structured, and how, where, and for what they should be deployed abroad? Sound crazy? Here in the U.S.A. [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan War, Contractors, DOD, Economy, Homeless, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, Housing, Iraq War, Jobs, Military, Military Spending, Pentagon, Poverty, Unemployment, VA, Veterans, Veterans Administration
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Eventually he realized it wasnt the Americans he was trying to reach. He said it was something people didn’t always understand about radios, that even if the Americans stopped listening, the heavens always heard. – Eliot Pattison, The Lord of Death via Truthout: Detained I feel the same way about these blog entries. Having readers or [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE3meFEZEyI[/youtube] For all my sisters out there in the world. Bless you.
“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” – Rebecca West March, as many of you know, is Women’s History Month. But today is the 100th International Women’s Day. One of the themes for this year’s International Women’s Day celebration is “equal rights, [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPx_-OF86qU[/youtube] Obama must now prime the pump to get us out of a multi-pronged mess left over from the Bush crowd and seven years of Republican control. Republicans chose to look the other way and ignore the financial chicanery going on right in front of them, while the income gap between the very wealthy and [...]
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Tagged Al Franken, Banking, Capitalism, Debt, Deficit, Economy, Financial Sector, Free Market, Jobs, Middle Class, Obstructionism, Reform, Regulation, Republicans, Safety Net, Trickle Down, Unemployment
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Women Have A Right to Body Sovereignty Women, half of all adult patients, are not a special interest group. Abortion is a medical procedure, just as a vasectomy, a mastectomy, etc. are. It is the woman’s life and choice, and it is a decision between her and her doctor. That is an individual freedom defined [...]
When I first began blogging in the mid- ’90′s we didn’t call it blogging and there were literally no freely hosted blog sites or even the software to host your own. Lots of people communicated with each other on IRC or through mailing lists. Mailing lists had to be hosted on a ListServ, which you paid for and [...]
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Tagged AdSense, Amazon, Apture, Blogging, Delicious, Facebook, FeedBurner, Google, Google Analytics, StumbleUpon, Supr, Technology, Tools, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Five Supreme Court Justices stabbed at the heart of democracy, our electoral system. They overturned over 100 years of statute and precedent, and declared that corporations can spend all the money that they want to buy elections. In fact, these five men in robes declared, they have a constitutional right to do so. A SINGLE [...]
One of the tools I use to blog with is a WordPress plugin made by Apture… with it, I choose supplementary content (and yes, authors, videos, pdf files, Wikipedia entries, links to Amazon products, Twitter feeds, etc. that all appear when you mouseover one of many little grey icons within the content here) to flesh out [...]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
The playlist above has just been added to the Videos section. It is a growing playlist and a work in progress. If you’re reading from the RSS feed, you’ll probably have to visit this entry to watch the videos. Further Reading: The Secret Wars Of The Cia by John Stockwell (.pdf)
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Your result for The Steampunk Style Test… The Gadgeteer 36% Elegant, 48% Technological, 30% Historical, 40% Adventurous and 43% Playful! You are the Gadgeteer, the embodiment of steampunk technology. Ironically, many of the things that most define your style are probably too large to easily carry about, but given the opportunity you would prefer to [...]
Less than a minute and yet most of human history flashes in front of your eyes so vividly and intensively. An amazing piece by an outstanding animator who does his work superbly; animating history into life.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Last night I taught a class to a roomful of journalists about how to use social media. About 25 of us or so gathered in one of the first-floor conference rooms at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In two hours, we discussed everything from how to search for groups on Facebook to all the reasons it’s so [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
If you’re an excess consumer and you’re in so deep deep deep that you’ve just got to buy buy buy buy or you just can’t sleep sleep sleep sleep, Green Thing has just launched the sustainable answer to your shopping addiction, the world’s most achingly desirable and deliciously sustainable product, Nothing™. via Do The Green [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
After acquiring Seattle-based user-generated news site Newsvine in 2007, and hyperlocal pioneer EveryBlock in August, the Microsoft/NBC Universal joint venture has worked out an arrangement to manage the popular @BreakingNews feed, which boasts more than 1.43 million Twitter followers — about 1.39 million more followers than msnbc.com’s own breaking news Twitter feed. Unlike its previous [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
FDR became a charismatic folk hero, in no small part because he defined himself as the scourge of Wall Street: Roosevelt offered himself as the leader in a fight against the “economic royalists” who, he charged, “had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s [...]
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Other than disintegrating forever, maybe the GOP/RNC ought to think about things like this: 1. Quit with the anti-”big government” rants when you are the pro-war party, unless you are willing to make substantial cuts to military budgets, weapons contracts, and defense contractors. 2. Stop the “entitlement” rants if you are not going to include [...]
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2110145479236650834[/googlevideo] The true story behind Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County. Happy Halloween! I remember seeing this in the ’90′s on a show called Encounters… it scared the hell out of me.
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[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5680530360797443942[/googlevideo] When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it — always. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Monday, September 21, 2009
I’ve been penniless for two months now. My divorce hearing is one week from today (my soon-to-be ex threatened to shoot me in the head, so I got a PPO against him). The VA cut off my disability compensation in August because the Social Security Administration somehow told them I’d gotten divorced in 1999 (I [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Supr plugin for WordPress enables users to easily post links to Twitter and Facebook. It supports the features below. Easily post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your blog directly in WordPress Customize your post or one click post with your blog title Host short URLs on your own domain Search engine friendly [...]
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