Culture
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Web On Strike Tomorrow!
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1 min read
Tomorrow is the official day of the global strike to help prevent Congress and the Senate from passing SOPA and PIPA, two bills intending to deal with privacy, but would instead, grant incredible power to corporations to not only sue, but completely remove sites from the web for what they decide is copyright infringement. For…
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Oh, How We Need The Dream
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4 min read
A year and a half ago, I wrote a post about “the dream speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. In it, I wrote the following: …I will share how I, living in the country transformed by this moment, still respond to Dr. King’s words. When Dr. King says, toward the opening of the famous “I…
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In one of the sickest things I’ve read in a while, Tennessee congressperson Richard Floyd says he would “just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry” if a transgendered individual used a bathroom with his wife or daughter. That is why he is sponsoring a bill that would fine transgendered…
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I’m a Barnes & Noble Man
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1 min read
Here’s one of the reasons I have a Nook. Because it is from Barnes & Noble and not Amazon.
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Ranting Grammarians
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4 min read
I really like Lynne Truss. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is one of my favorite books ever. I’d like to think that would be so even if I hadn’t majored in English. The book itself is one big rant on behalf of better grammar. She is militant, persuasive, and funny. And that seems to…
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Good Enough Isn’t
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3 min read
My wife and I don’t watch home improvement shows that often, but occasionally, we’ll have HGTV on for most the afternoon, forgetting that it isn’t really our cup of tea. I got sucked into a couple of episodes of a show about flipping houses. Again, not my thing, but at the time it was strangely…