Plus: I liveblogged using roughly the verbose and disposition of a gossipy 14-year old girl addicted to myspace, fergie, and ytmnd, except using the terminology and in-jokes of the Meet the Press clique i'm so totally in. i laughed out loud re:reading it ( Read more... )

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CROSS POSTED FOR ACCURACY. YOUR REPRESENTATIVE WILL VOTE TOMMOROW ON THIS BILL IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY, SO LET THEM KNOW YOU EXPECT ISPs & TELCOMS TO KEEP TREATING EVERY SITE EQUAL TONIGHT!
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet
What exactly is Net Neutrality ( Read more... )

What exactly is Net Neutrality? You can watch a short (2 minute) video explaining the problem over on my other blog, then come back here. I'll be waiting for you ( Read more... )

In the New York Times’ article “Where Political Clout Demands a Maternal Touch”, Lydia Polgreen and Larry Rohter portray the recent election of two female heads of state in context of their female gender roles. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, elected as Liberia’s new president and the first woman head of state in Africa, campaigned under the role of ( Read more... )

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It's that time of year again, but I don't ever remember being this distressed about taxes. Sure, a journalist like myself can afford them, but should I even have to pay them? Now sure some social programs of government construction seem beneficial, even necessary; not to mention some of those cut over the past year. And yes, my taxes have been ( Read more... )

Attention all party members ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the past year I lost sight of beltway. I could have made a list of things the administration wasn't doing to improve the lives of my fellow citizens. The problem now is that the list of things the administration has been doing wrong is too long to possibly offer a list of things that should be done. By the time people like myself ( Read more... )