Secondary Activism: Vote Surveillance Reform Up on Change.org
Jon Pincus of Get FISA Right points me to a competition of ideas at Change.org. People are invited to submit their ideas for presidential priorities in the new administration, and/or to vote up or down...
View ArticleReligious Satire Website Crawling Up Christian Index
Upset at the number of secular stories that end up on the consensus news site Digg.com, some Christians have set up a similar news ranking website called DiggChrist. The irreverent satire website...
View ArticleAnarchists for Accountability in Contracting
To follow up on Truman’s sad observation that Hawai’i for Democracy has been converted into a credit card advertisement, allow me to note a more quick and abrupt transformation. Comeout2009.org, the...
View ArticleWhat Changes Does Skreened Have Up Its Sleeve for March?
Skreened, the only print-on-demand service in the known universe to sell shirts exclusively made in certifiably sweatshop-free conditions, has changes afoot. On March 1, the design and print shop is...
View ArticleFinally, the White House Features Comment on Pepper Spray attacks against...
Today, the White House has broken its silence regarding pepper spray attacks against peaceful protesters — but it isn’t what you might think. No, your President Barack Obama still has not uttered a...
View Article80 Days Before First Candidate Ballot, Americans Elect has no Mechanism to...
80 days from now, on April 17 2012, Americans Elect is scheduled to hold its first online-only vote for its delegates to choose between drafted presidential candidates. The official Americans Elect...
View ArticlePrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Introduces Website and First Report
Empowered to subpoena testimony and documents from the U.S. Government, evaluate the constitutionality of “War on Terror” programs, and report its findings to Congress and the public, the Privacy and...
View ArticleSo Proud of My Son
Just accessed my middle schooler’s blog, where he writes: guys if you need to get around website restrictions at school or whatever go to google and type in cache:[url]. it brings up googles cache of...
View ArticleAmerican Family Association Declares War on PetSmart: Saying “Christmas”...
The Christian fundamentalist group calling itself the “American Family Association” is at it again: “AFA is calling for a limited one-month boycott of PetSmart over the company’s censorship of the word...
View ArticleThe American Family Association Hates Christmas: See the Proof!
The American Family Association, a media company that uses Christian branding to sell its products a fundamentalist Christian organization, has declared a boycott against PetSmart this holiday season....
View ArticleAmerican Family Association Hates Christmas 524 times as much as Barnes and...
The American Family Association is at it again, whipping up its latest sales pitch religious objection to various companies around America that it says “hate Christ” and are part of a “War on...
View ArticleAmericans Elect’s Imaginary Friend Pops Up to Change the Rule
In a February post this year I noted that Americans Elect leadership had popped up yet again with a new name: “Level the Playing Field.” At least two mysteries surrounded the Americans Elect group,...
View ArticleIn Final Sweet Irony, Website of “The Can Kicks Back” Taken Over by...
“The Can Kicks Back” said it was a social movement of “millenials” for fiscal austerity and blasting away the social safety net, but it turned out to be run by a bunch of elderly, rich hedge fund and...
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