Google does the right thing.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html
Equality isn’t a political issue, its a human right. Yay. Google. And yay california too.
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Tag Archives: politics
Trig is a person first. Not a political ‘choice’
From the MinnPost:
The national surge in affection for Palin among Christian conservatives is typically credited by pundits to her support for teaching creationism in public schools, her recent decision to have a baby she and her husband knew to have Down syndrome, and a staunch pro-life stance.
[emphasis mine]
Cara, writing at The Curvature, finally voices something that’s been bugging me since coverage of Palin began this weekend:
You know, it’s the anti-choicers who use “it’s not a choice, it’s a child” as a rallying cry to force women to give birth. And yet here I am, as pro-choice as can be, really fucking annoyed that conservative assholes are portraying this very real, actual child as a political choice rather than the human being that he is.
Seriously. Trig is a person first, and just happens to have Down’s Syndrome. As someone who worked with teenagers and kids with developmental disabilities for a few years, the narrative about Palin’s brave “choice” to keep her child was really starting to piss me off. His having Down’s should have had no influence whatsoever on her choice to keep the child, unless you’re someone that believes a child with down’s is somehow ‘worse’ than a normal child.
And painting her child as a sacrifice specifically because of his disability treats him as a less worthy and valuable human being.
Exactly. Saying her choice was more honorable just because he was diagnosed with Down’s immediately implies that there’s something less human about him.
Trig may have Down’s, but he’s a child first! I have no doubt he’ll grow up to be a radiant and amazing child with all the usual lovable eccentricities and personality quirks that ANY child has. Her choice isn’t anymore heroic just because he was born with a developmental disability, and claiming so is insulting to Trig as a human being that has just as good a chance at leading a long, full, and meaningful life as any other child.
Rant over. Best to Palin and her growing family.
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Yes I Can [be excited about Obama]
This is the first time I’ll be voting for a candidate, not voting against another.
The game changed in ‘60 when Kennedy faced Nixon on television. Kennedy and his folks understood the medium, and understood how to better use it. They had conscious competence of the most important medium of the day.
2008 is the first presidential election in which a candidate’s team has a conscious competence of the newest and most powerful medium: the internet (see below). McCain is going to be crushed.
This is a candidate that understands my generation, my technologies, and is of my world view. Fuck yeah I’m voting for Obama.
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Concise
This is the first election the power of the net is being used with a conscious competence. As 1960 and the televised nixon/kennedy debates changed the political game forever, so will ‘08 and the power of the net. Everything you ever say in your political is becoming tagged, recorded, and indexed. Transparency and truth are the only way to not look like an ass on the daily show or in clips like this. People are watching and listening.
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Your favorite rockin’ revolutionary songs?
I’m making a list and need some help. What do you think are the *best* revolutionary/political/lets fucking change things/we are the people and you will hear us songs? Mainly interested in rock, but i know there’s quality hip hop, country, and obviously punk songs abound as well, which I’d like to hear about as well. A few I quickly came up with:
Masters of War
Know Your Rights
Fortunate Son
Gimme Some Truth
Rockin’ in the Free World
I Am A Patriot
Get Up Stand Up
Many Spearhead Songs
Ohio
Grievance
Many Rage songs
just a quick list, but I want the best of the best here. If you’ve got suggestions, please do send them my way.
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AT&T Censors Pearl Jam
Get the full details here.
AT&T and Apple are now closely linked…could Apple stand up to AT&T on this kind of shit? If not, looks like iPhones will have to be boycotted too.
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Pelosi Blocks Bush’s Boob Grab
Winner of the Huffington Post Contagious Festival, January ‘07. I co-created it with my cohort Toby Rogers.
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The 1/2 Hour News Hour
Wow. While channel surfing and recovering from last night’s party, I came across Fox News and their “conservative” version of the Daily Show: The 1/2 Hour News Hour. How this show was actually able to air I do not know. Politics aside, the production values were just terrible and the laughs non existent. I have a completely new appreciation for the Daily Show after seeing this. Whether you lean to the left or not, the Daily Show is funny. Few of the jokes make fun of conservatism, they usually just point out the absurdness and stupidity of people’s actions.
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Help me win MONEY
http://bushboobgrab.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
I coached my friend toby on some video editing, if he wins the huffington post contagious festival i get half the winnings. Go to the above link A LOT, often, and make everyone you know go to…..
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