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Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering:
OK, lookin' ahead: Registration reform is good and all, when it's not just a rovian tool of oppression, but what about gerrymandering?
Math nerds, help me out: is there some formula, maybe 'fractal dimensions' or something, that would allow people to judge the craziness of congressional districts borders and outlaw ones that are too ( Read more... ) -
Palin smackdown
"Palin is indisputably the single worst major party candidate for high office in living memory, a proudly ignorant political automaton whose only notable qualities are a pretty face, a sufficient lack of awareness to blind her to her own incompetencies and a quality of ambition that can only be described as voracious." --John Scalzi
My friends, ( Read more... ) -
GO Television!
I can't help it: everytime I see the acronym for "Get Out The Vote", GOTV, all I can feel is happiness that people are enthusiastic about television. -
HDT: he's everywhere!
I don't know WHAT the heck is going on, but I've seen and heard references to Henry David Thoreau like eight times in the last three days.
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Questions for Christians
Lifted from DailyKos:
Seems homophobic christianists favorite passage of the Bible is Leviticus 18:22 - but I think we’d be interested in their responses to other passages they always choose to ignore:
1. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him ( Read more... ) -
Eternal Vigilance: "The Common fate of the Indolent"
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
-- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election for Lord Mayor ( Read more... ) -
White Privilege, ala 10/2008
I'm pretty sure I heard Tom Hartman read this on Air America, --it was too good not to share. Certainly makes the concept clear:
This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
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Whew! Good thing I missed it
Well, once again, I didn't go to Burning Man. Ever since I read that Bruce Sterling article in WIRED about it I've wanted to go, and know about six people who HAVE gone.
But this year, it's just as well.
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