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I live right on the commuter train line to DC. Seriously. It would cost me less than ten bucks to attend this thing AND in an environmentally-friendly fashion too! (Okay, plus $95 for the ticket, but still! CHEAP!)
For $95, they do emphasize a refusal to feed you, but you get [...]

I wonder at what point a country accumulates enough of the markers—surveillance, botched elections, out-of-control law enforcement, and so on—that citizens and government alike can just shrug their shoulders and say, “Yep, we’re living in a police state. Can someone please liberate us now?”
The U.S. is pretty well there, I think. Check out this story [...]

What I care about is human life, and the ending of it that could be prevented, no matter how great or small that chance of the life ending might be. Lives, lives that would otherwise be in no danger at all, are being lost to pregnancy!
Like these folks, I am [...]

I don’t like bananas, but even if I did, I wouldn’t eat them. United Fruit, the reason that we have the bananas that we have today, is basically the template for ruthless, evil corporations, pursuing unimaginable profits as the cost of human rights and the environment.
Within the next few decades, short of a scientific miracle, [...]

I love everything that went down over Phyllis Schlafly’s honorary degree from Wash U. Kids got angry and organized, and while Darth Vader still got her parchment, the protest raised gobs of awareness. Something tells me schools will think twice about endorsing the work of other hatey mcbigots in the future.
But isn’t it [...]

I realize that my posting has been somewhat hit or miss lately, but it should definately pick up after the 9th (when my finals are finished). Until then, I felt I would combine both my posting obligations and final work (to the benefit of all, of course).
This last semester, I took a course [...]

Here’s one, from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, that should put a smile on your face:

Of course, we here in Canada recognize this as satire. I’m not sure that it reads that way to Americans. What do you think?
Hat tip: Audra Williams
And here’s one that really won’t put a smile on your face: American [...]

The Senate gave Bush his precious telecomm immunity.
After nearly two months of stops and starts, the Senate rejected by a vote of 31 to 67 a move to strip away a grant of retroactive legal immunity for the companies…
The Senate also rejected two amendments that sought to water down the immunity provision.
One, co-sponsored by Republican [...]

Six years, umpteen godzillion dollars and a Patriot Act later and this is all we got?
While the Defense Department conducts exhaustive planning for operations overseas, its planning for possible action inside the United States in response to attacks is inadequate, said the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves.
“We looked at their plans. They’re totally [...]

…where you can get a high school diploma by working in McDonald’s
Do I need to point out everything that’s wrong with this? Corporate sponsorship of public education is a vicious cycle. First, the government cuts funding to schools. Next, a corporation approaches the desperately underfunded school to bail it out—Nike will build you a new [...]

Hooray! The extremely popular White House wielded its unstoppable positive momentum again this week:
A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency’s wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers defeated a more restrictive plan by Senate Democrats that would have imposed more court oversight on government [...]

Shorter Michelle Malkin I: I can’t believe the gall of these people, using children to raise support for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, as though that were at all relevant.
Shorter Michelle II: If these people are poorer than you, well, then you’re already thinking “screw ‘em.” But if they are as rich or richer [...]