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Category Archives: Politics

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failure

by Rob Friesel

Via Boing Boing: 12:29 Evacuee Irvin Skinner: We have a curfew. We’re being kept inside after 11pm. Forced to stay inside. They threw guns on everyone. Said ‘come inside or your out of here’. Shoved guns, pointed them at adults. I’m a grown man, I have rights. This is an instituion to us, it’s like […]

Death in ’08!

by Rob Friesel

So apparently, the Bush administration does not acknowledge the existence of death. Were Bush himself to fall victim to a broccoli choking, I’m sure there’d be no cameras allowed at the State Funeral. Maybe not even a State Funeral. They’d just prop up the corpse in the Oval Office and start the campaign for a […]

FEMA sucks

by Rob Friesel

As if all the other crap about FEMA going around wasn’t enough, turns out their site won’t let you file a report w/o being on Windows and in IE. Time to write an open letter to the US govt that boils down to: “If your agency sites can’t support open standards, we might need to […]

essay question

by Rob Friesel

Via Smart Mobs – there’s a petition going around to get Google to stop posting ads for essay writing services. The ethics of this are a touch complicated, no? On the one hand you have the argument that this undermines education. Sure, OK. I’ll buy that. But where’s the free market? Is this the same […]

…!?!?!?

by Rob Friesel

Via a BBC.co.uk article: …Buerk has said “almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women” who “decide what we see and hear”. All I could think to say was: “!?!?!?” The former Nine O’Clock News presenter told the Radio Times: “Life is lived in accordance with women’s rules” and men are now […]

native arguments

by Rob Friesel

Following the comment thread over on Sampo re: the NCAA mandate on ‘Native American’ mascots (this prompted by a CNN broadcast piece and a CBS online piece). The short version so far? The NCAA has stated that it will not conduct post-season/championship play at institutions which use what they consider to be “hostile or abusive” […]