Ten Theses on Jack Chick
(tags: religion comics)
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
It’s sad…
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
That 7 years of Bush has made be think that Huckabee might not be so bad.
Update: Yeah, not so much. Guess it does it worse than Bush.
links for 2007-11-28
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Esquire profile of Dennis Kucinich
(tags: 2008 politics kucinich)
Esquire: The Best and Brightest 2007
The case for privitizing marriage
By an Evergreen professor. Includes brief history of marriage in western society.
(tags: queer politics)
links for 2007-11-27
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Mike Huckabee: our favorite right wing nutjub
(tags: 2008 politics huckabee)
William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview
(tags: books fiction politics)
What the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer
(tags: politics)
links for 2007-11-26
Monday, November 26th, 2007
How Bill Hicks got banned from Letterman
(tags: humor media)
War on Photography
(tags: policestate blogs)
The Rise of Libertarianism
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Reason editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie and Reason contributor Matt Welch have a piece on the rise of libertarianism at the Washington Post. And Gillespie is one of several people quoted in a Washington Times article on the same. From the WaPo piece:
In April 2006, the Pew Research Center published a study suggesting that 9 percent […]
Best stuff I read this week
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Since I tend to post a flood of links both here and at Technoccult, some of wich I haven’t even read, I thought it might be useful both for readers and for myself to offer a list of the very best things I read each week.
Brother Theodore is Dead, a Brother Theodore obituary by Nick […]
links for 2007-11-25
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Where are women groups on the Saudi women sentenced to 200 lashes?
A woman in Saudi Arabia has been sentences to 200 lashes for being outside her house without the supervision of a male relative. This after she was gang raped. Women’s groups are silent on the issue.
Brain Box: How television broke the minds of three […]
Gaza’s electricity to be cut by Israel
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Israel will begin to gradually reduce the amount of electricity supplies to Gaza starting from Dec .2 in its latest hostile action against Hamas.
Human rights groups have denounced Israel’s policy of cutting back on utilities to Gaza, calling it collective punishment.
Israel has generally closed off Gaza since Hamas took power in June 2006, following a […]
links for 2007-11-24
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Slate: Obama is paying no price for aggression.
(tags: politics 2008 obama)
Peanuts/Charles Schulz slideshow
(tags: comics)
Taliban closing in on Kabul: report
(tags: politics global war)
links for 2007-11-22
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Tips on writing outside one’s own experience
(tags: race writing culture gender)
R.U. Sirius’s Open Source Political Party
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
R.U. Sirius has setup a site for a new project: the Open Source Political Party. It appears to be a relaunching of his old Revolution Party idea, but more… serious.
The Revolution Party was a huge influence on me. I’ve always had a sort of mix of libertarian and progressive ideals, and the Revolution Party […]
links for 2007-11-21
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Wallerstein: Japan, the United States, and the World-Economy
(tags: global economics business)
links for 2007-11-20
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Crocs demand transfer of crocsfans.com from popular customer evangelist
“the use of the Crocs trademark in the domain (CrocFans.com) ‘could be confusing to consumers as to whether the site is sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Crocs, Inc.’”
(tags: marketing business copyright)
links for 2007-11-19
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Brad Neely interview in the Daily Texan
(tags: comics humor)
The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters
(tags: race film youth)
links for 2007-11-17
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
XKCD artist featured in Wired
(tags: comics)
Georgia Police Turns Sonic Blaster on Demonstrators
(tags: global tech)
Missouri town outlaws sagging
Update: I originally wrote that this was St. Louis, but I was incorrect. However, it appears that Pine Lawn also has more serious problems than sagging.
(tags: politics policestate)
XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy
full book online […]
Spliced: White people and dreadlocks
Friday, November 16th, 2007
My first column for Alterati is up:
Maybe “you don’t haffi dread to be Rasta,†but do you have to be Rasta to dread? Or, more directly: is it ok for white people to have dreads? This was one of the questions my local paper, the Oregonian, posed to local dreads. Of course, some black people […]
links for 2007-11-16
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Teen commits suicide after reading another teen’s parents fake Myspace messages
(tags: youth life)
Quote of the day
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
“Yeah, I gotta admit, the dollar’s still looking pretty strong - against the fuckin’ nickel. And it continues to trade much higher than the penny.” - Get Your War On.
links for 2007-11-14
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The Revolt of Comic Books
(tags: comics politics)
Lazy linking on Leftist labor libertarianism
(tags: politics economics)
Freedom Democrats
Libertarian activists working within the Democratic Party
(tags: politics)