Tag Archives: Politics

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.

April 6, 2011 – 1:01 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Sunlight Foundation – House Violates 72 Hour Pledge Again

De-funding a valu­able pub­lic resource and usurp­ing democ­racy, all emer­gen­cies and all in a days work for Republicans.

April 2, 2011 – 11:56 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

TorrentFreak – Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?

Why indeed?

April 2, 2011 – 4:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Copyright, Politics, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion

We have to avoid being like Europe so we’ll do what Europe did but it’ll turn out dif­fer­ently for us.

March 24, 2011 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble

That’s not a fun change to make, espe­cially because if peo­ple choose to reject cook­ies, they’ll want to know why the site acts so differently.

March 8, 2011 – 7:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in U.S. With Anti-Islam Message

Fear much like sex sells, for bet­ter or worse.

March 8, 2011 – 1:27 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Freedom to Tinker – Seals on NJ voting machines, March 2009

So secu­rity seals pro­tect­ing those vot­ing machines, useless.

March 8, 2011 – 12:24 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off