Why am I anti-conservative, when many conservative financial ideals make sense?
untitled83 asked on my recent post about electoral projections: I just have a quick question I’ve wanted to ask a strong liberal, or should i say a strong anti-conservative. I stumbled on your blog so...
View ArticleIt might not get better after all.
I love the “It Gets Better” campaign, started by newspaper personality Dan Savage. The message he has to deliver though, that bullying and oppression that you might experience by coming out as gay or...
View ArticleOn the Role of the Middle Class in Occupy Wall Street
I’ve been involved in a conversation with Juniper Shoemaker these past few days about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the worry that the middle class will eventually co-opt it, and that the concerns...
View ArticleAFA: gay marriage leads to polyamory, car, building, dog marriage
Apparently, according to the yahoos at the American Family Association, if gays are allowed to marry, that literally opens the door for polyamory right then and there. Those of you in polyamorous...
View ArticleAmerica’s Softest-on-Rape Sheriff
Joe Arpaio, self-styled as “America’s Toughest Sheriff”, who runs his jail like a concentration camp (and even uses the words himself!), who mistreats inmates grotesquely in torturous living conditions...
View ArticleQuite possibly the most moving two minute video ever
Presented with as little context as possible, intentionally, below the fold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBd-UCwVAY Once enough people watch and comment, I might add proper tags and categories to...
View ArticleCanada about to lose any vestige of internet privacy
Despite how pro-privacy the Harper government has claimed to be, with the destruction of the long gun registry out of privacy concerns, it is absolutely no surprise to me that they’re total hypocrites...
View ArticleAbortions happen most frequently (and most unsafely) in countries where it’s...
Via USA Today (via the Associated Press), The Lancet just published a study finding very high correlation between abortions and laws restricting same. Seems the more Draconian your anti-woman laws are,...
View ArticleDispatches from the Intersection of Law and Religion
Sadly, it looks like the religious folks with power to create laws are opening new fronts just about every day. While I was going crazy with work, there’s a bunch of news items worth highlighting that...
View ArticleAnonymous turns their attention to Canada’s internet snooping bill and Vic...
Ho-leeee shit. Anonymous is after Vic Toews now. They’ve released information about Vic Twenty’s mistress in retribution for bills C30 and C11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sb0-QF0ew8 Anyone see any...
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