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The article previously published here seems to have caused certain individuals (previously exposed in the Digg Patriots article here) – especially one in particular – to unsurprisingly decide to once again to try to do exactly what has been done before as part of DiggPatriots, and attempt to censor and “force” removal of anything that reveals their participation in malicious activity. Instead of confronting or replying to the issues, R.J. Carter (formerly CaptCarrot on Digg.com), decided to resort to making demands, that I assume were supposed to be intimidating. They weren’t. If he believes the truth to be defamatory, its defamation by his own doing.
September 11, 2010Read More
Five years after Katrina, the Gulf Coast and New-Orleans have to deal with another large scale disaster ( in this case purely man-made) in the form of the BP oil spill. It seems that New-Orleans can not get a break, but again the Crescent City is far from being the only town at the epicenter […]
August 25, 2010Read More
Below is an extreme example of behavior on YouTube that goes well beyond cyber bullying, and could very easily more appropriately be labeled cyber terror. Extreme taunting of a boy who lost his mother, rape victims, and suicidal teens has no place in the world in this editor’s opinion, and the anonymity of the internet is no excuse. In a world where people refuse to speak out against such depravity (regardless of political ideology), it is allowed to flourish, and has very real-world consequences.
August 3, 2010Read More
The observation that religiosity and sexual repression go ‘hand-in-hand’ is certainly not a ground-breaking discovery, any more than it would be considered a revelation that religious fundamentalists try to force the limitations of their repression on others. What’s disconcerting is that despite all the education available in ‘the information age,’ the religious community not only persists, but increases its efforts, to impose sanctions on others, based on their own perverted understanding of human sexuality.
August 1, 2010Read More
Religion is nothing more than the sugar and spice that the conservatives have latched onto in order to sell an otherwise completely unpalatable, one dish, menu. They’ve found something to fill the void in their platform, religion, America’s soft spot, and they are exploiting it.
July 18, 2010Read More