In spite of the warrantless phone tapping, the daily drone strikes, and the fact that wealth is rapidly concentrating in the hands of just a few, I actually love America. For all of its flaws, I think we’ve created something truly unique and beautiful here… something worth fighting for. It’s an extremely fragile thing, this […]
Sadly, I didn’t get video of him actually pointing his gun at the small kids lining the parade route, pulling the trigger, and strafing the crowd with simulated machine gun fire. This photo was taken by a friend, right at the end of the parade, once he’d decided to end his imagined killing spree. UPDATE: […]
On the Fourth of July, people around the country will be joining together to protest the illegal domestic spying activities of the American government at what are being called “Restore the Fourth” rallies… The reference, of course, is to Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees “the right of the people to be […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged big brother, Bill of Rights, Carl Levin, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Debbie Stabenow, domestic spying, Fourth Amendment, James Clapper, Jennifer Stisa Granick, NSA, Obama, Patriot Act, privacy, Ron Wyden, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, surveillance, Surveillance State, warrantless searches |
Bill Moyers, if you haven’t seen it yet, shared a great essay a few days ago, on the Citizen’s United decision, which gave corporations and wealthy individuals the go-ahead to invest unlimited sums of money in hopes of influencing American elections, and the subsequent campaign being waged by those attempting to buy said elections to […]
Posted in Observations, Politics | Also tagged Bill Moyers, cash as free speech, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, disclose act, First Amendment, Free Speech, George III, get the money out of Washington, July 4, money as free speech, Move to Amend, Netroots Nation, Ohio, Plutocracy, privatization, secrecy, Sherrod Brown, Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson, threats to Democracy |
Following up on our conversation about the purposeful dumbing down of America, I though that I’d share this tweet, sent out today by renowned American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is in reference, for those of you who don’t know, to the fact that, earlier today, physicists near Geneva, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, officially […]
Posted in Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged American exceptionalism, anti-science, bets, dumbing down of America, European Organization for Nuclear Research, fireworks, god particle, Gordon Kane, Higgs boson, July 4, Large Hadron Collider, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Higgs, Science, science fail, Stephen Hawking, subatomic particles, University of Michigan |
