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Bringing Back the Stocks 2008-02-25 10:49:15 Here in Asheville, NC, the police department is updating an ages-old concept in their attempts to discourage unwanted behaviour: public humiliation. As was recently announced, Asheville police have begun posting on their website and on the local television channel names and photographs of individuals charged with prostitution or soliciting for prostitution.
Now read that again, [...] Read more:Stocks
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Hillary’s “Significance” 2008-02-14 11:08:18 Just who is significant? Photo by highkey11, creative commons licenseI’m pretty sure I want Barack Obama for President, but I could still change my mind. Granted, in order for that to happen Obama would have to do something which demonstrated that he does not intend to carry through with the promises in his proposed [...] Read more:Hillary
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Off The Cuff: The New Frontier 2008-02-08 14:30:09 Presenting The CaseFor two days I have been writing about the concept of Revolution. I have mused on the general concept, and I have talked about what the first step in overhauling the current system has to be. If we are going to try for real change, however, we also have to agree [...] Read more:Frontier
Off The Cuff: A Wave of Information 2008-02-07 11:06:53 Presenting The CaseYesterday, I was thinking about Revolution in general terms: what it means, what might be the goal of a modern revolution, what tools we have to hand. Today I am thinking we need to break it down a little smaller. Recently, I was arguing with a friend about whether ideology or [...]
Off The Cuff: How Do You Start A Revolution? 2008-02-06 16:08:01 Presenting The CaseI am thinking a lot about the concept of revolution, these days. At this point, most people in the United States can agree that something has gone terribly wrong. We may disagree about when it started to go that way (my personal contention being “with Teddy Roosevelt”), or how far away [...] Read more:Start
Beyond Race, Gender, and “Experience”: The Real Reason To Vote For Obama 2008-02-05 11:23:59 As Super Tuesday is upon us, the arguments over which prospective Democratic candidate should be chosen has grown steadily more heated here in the United States. Along with the candidates themselves engaging in pointed sound-byte rhetoric (all of which seems to come down to Hillary’s “experience”, and the massive parcel of baggage that said [...] Read more:Reason
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No Such Thing As False Hope 2008-02-04 10:49:41 Just look at that crowd… — Photo by roxannejomitchell’s photos, Creative Commons.I spent much of yesterday writing a carefully researched and documented essay comparing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, with the aim of demonstrating why the former was a better choice for President than the latter. As it sat this evening in not-quite-done [...] Read more:Thing
Super-Delegates, Public Funding, and the Sham of the Democratic Primary Process 2008-01-30 10:56:16 Reminds me of “The Hanged Man”…*sigh* - Photo by Austen Squarepants. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)The Presidential primary process is settling into full swing now, as I am constantly reminded by emails from various political and activist groups. Everyone’s eyes are on the Democratic
showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, and the news is [...] Read more:Super
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The Most Important Electoral Issue: Does Your Vote Count? 2008-01-18 14:36:13 Sock Monkeys Unite!! — Photo by Bolobilly on Flickr. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)We are two elections in to the Presidential primary races, and already it has begun: conspiracy theories that the votes have been tampered with. And now, thanks to Dennis Kucinich we’re starting to get some evidence that, indeed, something is not quite [...]
Cheap Booze Reviews: “Malt Beverages With Caffeine and Ginseng” 2008-01-12 09:26:06 Once upon a time, in a universe existing primarily in the spaces between computers, two stalwart adventurers met on the road. One, an adventurous musician with a weakness for rubber chickens. The other, an idealistic lunatic with a penchant for awkward linguistic constructions. Both had a fondness for mischief and strong drink. And so [...] Read more:Cheap
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Elevenish Ways To Kill A Peep 2008-03-22 23:25:18 So, it’s Easter/Ostara/Spring Equinox/whateveryoucallit, and as usual the stores are full of symbolic representations of our gratitude for new life. Pastels, chocolate eggs, and the persistent Peeps. Yes, the gooey marshmallow “treats” which line up in their neat little rows behind their cellophane windows to peer blankly out into the world through their [...]
Sex Education Should Begin At Birth 2008-04-28 10:34:59 One might think that in an evolved, educated, first-world nation, the issue of “sex ed” would have been settled long ago. After all, what could be more important than teaching children about their own bodies, and encouraging each individual to make responsible choices when it comes to reproduction? And yet, the debate continues to [...] Read more:Education
A Quick Word On Burkhas 2008-05-16 22:09:03 OK…so I’m a bit drunk. But tonight’s surfing brought me to a story of some girl who got arrested for her “too revealing” prom dress, and then an assortment of Hollywood “gaffes” wherein some starlet or other showed too much nipple, and finally I was compelled to do a search for “men burkhas” which, [...] Read more:Quick
People of the World: Please Stop 2008-06-10 16:18:51 Yesterday I found myself explaining a curious thing to my son. He was wondering why H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t the most famous horror-writerAbandon All Hope ever, and I explained that he was a little too “out there” to ever garner a larger readership, until recently (admittedly, I suspect his readership is still not huge, but [...] Read more:World
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