Jeff suggests a new app for the iPhone. I’d call it iVote, or Angry Voters. I used to be a hard-liner against e-voting, but now I’m starting to wonder if democracy is doomed either way, why not make it more engaging at the end of its life? There’s little doubt that an un-fixed electronic election […]
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Geoff at Mount Allison: Mount Allison University Video Project Featured in Academica’s Top Ten
This morning the video project I’ve been working on this summer was featured on Academica’s Top Ten list. If you’re not familiar with the list here’s a little snippet from the website:
Our team of researchers scours thousands of news sources every…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fox News Bullies Children
How old does someone have to be for Fox News to consider a person fair game for their media smear machine? Answer: Not even a teenager.
They didn’t like these kids expressing their willingness to dance on camera for a better political future.
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives: Doing Pork-barrel by the Book
An election issue that was overlooked by the electorate was the G8 spending by Tony Clement, a minister in Harper’s cabinet. Tony is very active on Twitter, he’s practically the Monte Solberg of social media (Monte a Conservative who had a popular blog until it was suggested by Harper that he axe it). There are […]
gay persons of color: Watch: Seattle Mariners, Seahawks, Storm, and Sounders say It Gets Better
Last Thursday, the Seattle Mariners released an “It Gets Better” video against anti-gay bullying to become the fifth Major League Baseball (MLB) team to do so and the first to include players from Seattle teams in the National Football League (NFL), …
Continue readingHarper Valley: What is North America Truly Asking For?
The turbulence is growing….England, Greece, Spain….where’s next? It could be our own backyards. This from Mohawk Clan Mother, Kahentenita Horn: Youth Riots – Ravenous Hunger for Freedom MNN. August 9, 2011. People and animals don’t live or breed well in captivity, unless they think they are free. Indigenous had mental, physical and spiritual freedoms. Europeans were born into […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bank of America Gets Foreclosed
This is the feel-good story of the year. A couple, and a rookie lawyer, kick BoA in the ‘holdings’. If it doesn’t play, you want The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : August 8, 2011 from The Pirate Bay. And you will want to watch this clip. Your life will be less fulfilled if you […]
gay persons of color: Tampa Bay Rays become 9th MLB team to join It Gets Better Project
Tampa Bay Rays’ manager Joe Maddon and players Johnny Damon, Sam Fuld, B.J. Upton, and Sean Rodriguez will be featured in an upcoming “It Gets Better” video to support teens dealing with anti-gay bullying, reports the St. Petersburg Times. The new vide…
Continue readingthe reeves report: DNA evidence enough to cause concern over invasive Asian Carp
This past week, a multi-agency fishing expedition got underway looking for Asian Carp west of Lake Michigan in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. After catching a 19-pound Asian Carp (which is actually an umbrella term for up to nine difference species of carp introduced to North America from Asia) in Lake Calumet in Chicago … Continue reading »
gay persons of color: DOMA to break up seven-year marriage and 19-year relationship
This is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in San Francisco and have ordered the expulsion of the Australi…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch: iPad app helps children understand gay parents
Raghava KK is an artist originally from Bangalore, India, who now lives and works out of New York. His recent immigration to the US was due to censorship of his work in India after he began exploring themes of masculinity following the coming out of a …
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: A Failure of Leadership
I am disappointed that American politicians, pundits and economists, on both the left and right, are condemning Standard & Poor’s for lowering the US debt rating. It’s like being arrested for a crime that you committed and then calling a press conferen…
Continue readingWealth gap in the U.S.—100 years of progress lost
A lost century—inequality in the U.S. is more extreme than it has been in almost 100 years. The gap between the ultra-rich and the poor and middle class has widened dramatically over the last 30 years. The richest one per cent of Americans…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Suquamish Tribe in Washington legalizes marriage equality
The Suquamish Tribe in Washington State on Monday became the second in America to recognize marriage equality with a the passage of a new law that allows the tribal court to issue a marriage license to two unmarried people, regardless of their sex, if …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Little Bit of This
Politics in North America are not going too well in my opinion. I don’t know many people happy with how it’s turning out either, which makes the election(s) this Fall all the worse because few are optimistic about the results then too. It’s no wonder so many bail out of taking any responsibility for the […]
gay persons of color: Watch: Baltimore Orioles "It Gets Better" video
Major League Baseball just keeps getting better as the Baltimore Orioles became the fourth team (after the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Boston Red Sox) to produce a video for the It Gets Better Project to fight homophobic teen bullying. The …
Continue readingthe reeves report: ‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’: Bloomberg gives fight to Big Coal
Not content to have merely taken on the gun lobby, the tobacco industry, and the anti-gay marriage crowd, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has set his sights on picking a fight with Big Coal. Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th wealthiest person in America right now with an estimated personal fortune of … Continue reading »
eaves.ca: Depression and Decline: American Irresponsibility is Ending the American Era with a Bang
Despite the assurances of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner it is increasingly likely there will be no debt deal. The United States is going to default on its debt. I know it sounds crazy, but I believe it is going to happen. If it does, this is the black swan event no one imagined or […]
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: United States Inches Toward Real Freedom
Well, I’m back from my vacation abroad, so let’s start up again with some short, but welcome news! New York officially started issuing same-sex marriage licenses yesterday, just days after President Barack Obama certified the end of the military’s silly “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned openly gay citizens from serving in the country. […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: One in four Massachusetts gay teens is homeless
The online American Journal of Public Health has published the results from a study indicating that 25 percent of Massachusetts gay teens are homeless, compared to 3.2 percent of their straight counterparts, reports AHN. Researchers at the Children’s H…
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