Category Archives: Politics

Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union – Just A Smack On The Ass: A Tale Of Sexual Assault, Vengeance And Nervous Swearing

Just an awe­some story of one woman going and con­fronting street harassment.

CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes

When this goes through (though pos­si­bly not this year) some busi­ness is going to make a mint pro­vid­ing a back-end ser­vice to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a pur­chase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Check­out should start build­ing that now, if they haven’t already.

Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

If it wasn’t so frus­trat­ing you have to almost admire Repub­li­cans abil­ity to ignore their own experts or exam­ples when legislating.

NYTimes.com – “Serious”

Seri­ous is mak­ing stuff up apparently.

NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel

I love that term voodoo eco­nom­ics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to under­stand some of the ridicu­lous assump­tions made.

ThinkProgress – Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Appar­ently it’s totally jus­ti­fi­able to spend most of your money on adver­tis­ing and salary (a salary which only 1.50% of all Amer­i­cans make that or bet­ter) for a non-profit and basi­cally noth­ing on your non-profits actual mission.

NYTimes.com – Pandora Discloses a Privacy-Related U.S. Inquiry on Apps

Won­der when we’ll start hear­ing some­thing what this inves­ti­ga­tion into mobile adver­tis­ing and I pre­sume pri­vacy is try­ing to discover.