From the ever amusing The Onion, an oldie but still appropriate parody of feminism being co-opted by various market forces:“Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does” As recently as 15 years ago, a woman could only feel empowered by advancing in a male-dominated work world, asserting her own sexual wants and needs, or pushing …
No, really.From Daily Kos: RIAA has secured the right to collect royalties on all songs regardless of who controls the copyright. RIAA operates under the assumption that they will collect the royalties for the “sound recording copyright” and that the artists who own their own copyright will go to SoundExchange to collect at a later …
Found this great quote on The Free Liberal website:
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”
— Buddha
Amen, brutha! We could all use a bit more “due examination and analysis” these days, not to mention kindness and moving toward the greater good.
The rumor is that they only send out this survey to those they know–or at least suspect–will answer it in exactly the way that they want it answered. I think it is fair to let as many people know about the survey so that their “results” will reflect as many viewpoints as possible. Please follow the link below and answer your conscience. A warning however, they will require an email address and confirmation of that email address, so you might not want to use your primary email in case your answer lands you on a spam list.
[Update: It seems that this survey has been pulled of their site. I wonder why?]
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Feministing posts about a Georgia High School and this year being the first desegregated prom. Yes, this year. Link Alternet has a story about how the Bush Administration is working to privatize our water supplies. Great, a requirement of life in the hands of multi-national corporations, what a great idea that is. Link Contrary to …
Check it out: Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies. Mother Jones covers the story here. After almost a year of hearings, last …
The UK Times Online has this story:
“Catapult boy is eaten after taunting crocodile in pen”
This just has to be up for a Darwin Award and is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard of someone doing who is not drunk (the kid was 9 so I’m making an assumption) or on drugs:
A schoolboy who climbed over a fence into a crocodile enclosure and taunted the animals with sticks and a catapult was dragged into the water and eaten . . . The children shot at the animals with catapults and beat them with sticks.
This is not a matter of knowing good from bad or right from wrong. This is a matter of ignoring every animal instinct that we have hardwired into our brain that tells us not to piss off a large-animal-that-can-eat-you unless you are high up in the branches of a tree and said large-animal-that-can-eat-you cannot climb up. I mean, this is stuff we figured out back in our pre-sapien days.
Back in the mid-80s, Howard Jones was a favorite of mine. Somehow his earnest, New Wave, synth-pop tunes connected to the romantic/idealist that was the teenaged LtL. In particular his albums “Human’s Lib” (Howard Jones) and “Dream Into Action” (Howard Jones). His songs definitely feel dated, almost silly at time, but songs like “Elegy” and …
LtL has been given 3 Joost invites. Let me know if you are interested in checking out this new Internet TV service out and I’ll send you one. So far I’ve watched a couple of the Comedy Central shows and, while the quality seems pretty good, I’ve had the shows just stop in the middle and I get a message saying that the show is not available at the moment. Obviously, they are still in Beta, so some issues are bound to crop up, but I would like to watch a complete episode of something before I really recommend it. Still, it’s kind of cool to check out.
I just had a rather long and quite good post about the movie Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. It was lost when Ecto crashed and took the whole post down with it, despite the fact that I have the “save drafts automatically” selection checked off in the settings. 🙁 I certainly don’t have the energy …