If you follow the political blogs of either stripe, you’ve heard of Ben Domenech, the 24-year-old Republican campaign worker and son of a White House staffer who was hired to be a "conserative voice" at the Washinton Post. Turns out the boy plagerized quite a bit at his college newspaper and subsequent blog positions. By [...]
A long time ago, I wrote a poem after seeing a moving picture of a soldier in Iraq holding a child. This is not the exact picture–the angle is not the same, and the soldier is looking down instead of at the camera–but this looks like the same soldier in the same situation. Honestly, I [...]
Amanda over at Pandagon has a comment on the abortion debate
that struck me as on the money and off by a few cents at the same time:
The problem with discussing “moral ambiguities” when
it comes to a choice that women can make independent of men–like abortion,
taking the pill, etc.–is that anti-choicers don’t accept that women have [...]
Ok, so after installing new software and upgrading said
software and loading backups and actually figuring out how to use the new
software, I think I’m almost there.
Some new features:
This new software has community support, so if you want,
you can write your own blog entries and post news stories, etc.
We should be better at blocking the spam [...]