What is wrong with SOPA
Sidelined for now, but of course will try to sneak in under the radar later…
Sidelined for now, but of course will try to sneak in under the radar later…
Sidelined for now, but of course will try to sneak in under the radar later… Bookmark It
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I recently shocked someone by saying it may not be worth it for him to send his kid to college. He got quite huffy, basically saying it was important as a parent to bankrupt yourself for your children’s future. I said it didn’t make sense to me, especially now. I said if I had young kids now, I’d encourage them to be plumbers or electricians: That’s what The Daily, News Corp. and Apple’s daily news outlet for the iPad, calculated a college [...]
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I read this essay Andrew Sullivan did for Newsweek about why Obama’s critics are so dumb, and my reaction was, “Spoken like someone with a job and health insurance.” Now the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf dissects it for us: To Sullivan, this is the big picture story of the Obama Administration: “the president begins by extending a hand to his opponents; when they respond by raising a fist, he demonstrates that they are the source of the problem; then, finally, he [...]
Read more →So why have relatively few formerly middle-class Americans become actively outraged by Wall Street frauds and job-destroying corporate raiders such as Mitt Romney? One answer is that many of us, despite lost jobs or lowered wages, have managed to maintain fairly good living standards, thanks to savings and other monetary cushions. But piggy banks across the country are close to tapped out. More here. Bookmark It
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“Try to cough and deep breathe every hour.” Hard to do, because my ribs hurt so bad when I do anything, but I’m trying. Other than the pain, I’m feeling pretty good. No nausea, thank God. I just finished a bowl of chicken noodle soup and so far, so good. I may even get around to taking a shower soon. The cuts are all very small, except for a three-inch one at the top. I seem to remember the recovery [...]
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Yet another peek into the distorted thinking of the religious extremists of the Corbett administration. Damn! Bookmark It
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Glenn Greenwald on how Chris “No Lobbying” Dodd is pushing SOPA behind the scenes. Bookmark It
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Just to show you how the wingnuts who are trying to get in power think about these things: In an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to “sexism among conservatives,” singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Rick Santorum: Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. [...] “The question [...]
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