The Life of a Rolling Stone

Navigating the insane tomorrowland we call the present since 1979.
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Remembering 9/11

9 years later, we must admit that the terrorists have won. While it was at best a shallow cover for our already heinous foreign policy, we were told that we were hated for our freedoms. And what have we done since then? 

Our people live in fear, divided against each other in bitter contempt, debating even basic reality. 

Our economy has collapsed, our surpluses run aground on the banks of insolvency. 

Our government of liberty and justice for all now makes a policy of assassinating even its own citizens, of kidnapping and torturing men and women around the globe with impunity, of criminalizing dissent, of holding and torturing political prisoners indefinitely without even the illusion of a fair trial. 

We commit ourselves and our children to wars of foreign aggression, squandering whatever reputation we had as a force for justice in the world even as we squander trillions on murdering innocents so that the pockets of cronies can be lined with gold. 

Corporate billionaires hire demagogues to preach ignorance and hatred, to shape the conversation, to favor the destruction of every protection we once enjoyed, to utterly destroy a middle class that was once the envy of the world, to end democracy and all of the rights that lie at its heart. 

In the wake of 9/11, traitors have spared no expense to destroy our country from within, acting from the halls of power, the gilded towers of commerce, seeking our ruin, pursuing courses of action that make a mockery of the morals that they claim to hold, that piss on the ashes of our constitution, that rob an entire people of their wealth and prosperity, built across generations of hard work.

The terrorists have won.

Jul 17
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The Ignite Talk I Had Intended to Give…

Or what I THOUGHT I had memorized…  If you want some expansion on my thoughts on some of this, read the lengthy post I wrote just before this one on the main page…

It’s the End of the World As We Know It:

And it’s about $#@&% Time!!!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Uriah Zebadiah, and I am here to talk about the economy. You’ve probably heard a thing or two about it by now, and I’ve got to tell you, yes, it is as bad as it seems. There’s a thousand things wrong, and we have every reason to believe that nefarious forces in the financial industry will push us farther and faster toward inequality and injustice. These fascist financiers in their gilded glass towers have done and will continue to do everything in their power to control government. And thus far, they have been enormously successful. 

What you’ll see here shortly is a chart showing the decline of American asset profitability over the last 40 years. How does this happen? It’s primarily the massive increase in corporate debt, slowly shifting an ever greater percentage of the economy into the pockets of the financial industry. 

On this slide you can see stagnant wages over the last 15 years, with corporate profits rising about 100 percent in the time. And yet share prices and executive compensation has more than tripled. Why? That’s the power of leverage. That’s the power of speculation, destroying the long term stability of large corporations while making it nearly impossible for small businesses to compete. But you won’t hear that on television, since fewer than twenty companies own and control almost the entirety of traditional media, and they don’t want to talk about it.

And speaking of difficult conversations, let’s talk climate change. It’s not off in the indeterminate future, it’s happening now. And it’s not just rising sea levels we need to worry about. It’s drought, specifically affecting much of the best farmland on earth. All of the american southwest lies under the harsh spectre of impending water rationing. The central valley of california is drier than it’s been since the advent of irrigation. There are people killing each other for water in India. Record droughts in China are forcing them to import more food than ever before. Across the board, food prices are set to skyrocket in the near future.

While on the subject of China, who has so graciously financed our deficit spending thus far, they’re now in talks to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. And that’s a problem, because we’re still spending money like we were king shits of the world.

How much money? If things continue to deteriorate and we are forced to pay to the full extent of our current commitments, we’ll have spent enough money to buy ten thousand truckloads of a thousand cheese pizzas to be delivered every single day for the next three hundred years. And you just can’t spend that kind of money without having an effect on the value of the dollar. Since Bush took office it’s lost a third of its value. And if the reputation of the fed continues to drop, potentially causing a run on the dollar, we are all going to have a giant festival of suck. 

Now, we are not Weimar Germany, we’re not going to see that kind of hyper-inflation. Even so, double digit inflation combined with stagnant wages is gonna make it real expensive to provide the necessities for life, not at all helped by speculators in commodities. But yes, there are opportunities to be had. The reduced value of american labor in the world market might drive up our manufacturing industry and make labor intensive organic agriculture more competitive. Not to mention the opportunities for wealthy bastards buying up beleaguered assets on the cheap from bankrupt businesses and struggling governments. Which of course leads me to the ongoing threat of wealthy fascists manipulating the angry masses for their own end. They already own and control the popular media, they’ve already installed a corrupt and nearly tyrannical surveillance state, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine them expanding their efforts. And to set the record straight, Obama’s not gonna fix things. The wealthy elite paid for him to get into office. His financial advisors are all Goldman Sachs executives, He’s a corporate shill who does as he’s told. He’s politics as usual.

So where do we go from here? We need to build the infrastructure necessary to live in self-sustaining communities. We need to learn to crowdsource business and industry. We need a new way to rapidly fund job growth that actually reflects the needs of all stakeholders. Because you can’t have underemployment rates of 25 percent and expect to have a healthy economy. Without jobs, any meaningful recovery is impossible. 

So in the meantime, what we can do is learn to appreciate frugality. There’s a lot you can do to improve your quality of life, regardless of what you can afford to buy. Most of all, get together with your friends and neighbors. Get out and improve your community. Do what you can, because this is the end of an era. There’s no road map to follow, and things are likely to get worse before they get better. Portland is strong because of its communities. And it’s all of you who make that work so well. Thank you and good night. 

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Thinking on the Economy

Our beloved National Debt: and why we don’t think too hard about it. « ThinkSketch

I can appreciate people’s concerns about the National Debt. It’s a complex subject that is honestly a little counter-intuitive.

The thing about the National Debt is that it’s nearly inevitable with a fiat currency. It’s not the same as the debt that you create to buy a television or a house or a business. Think of it as more of the gap between how much money is in circulation and the actual economic value of the economy. So what happens in the macroeconomic sense is that the fed creates the money and sells bonds to pay for it. This allows them to create money with enough of a time gap that inflation doesn’t immediately devalue the currency by the amount of new money they created. It’s the reason fiat currencies are more powerful than currencies attached to a commodity like gold or silver, and is absolutely integral to our staggering growth throughout most of the 20th century.

So the national debt is actually a good thing, right up until the point that the rest of the world stops investing in our debt or we can no longer pay it back, at which point our economy collapses and we suffer crippling stagnation paying down our existing debt and crippling hyper-inflation as we print more money to devalue our debt obligations (thereby reducing the economic cost of that debt service). That could be as soon as later this year.

That being said, given the interconnected nature of global economic forces, it is in fact in the best interest of lending nations to keep feeding the US, so we might get away with it for another business cycle at least. I dunno how stable it is in the long run, but it would sure be nice to postpone collapse for another 8-10 years while we shape up the government in the wake of the Bush years and get ourselves better prepared to outcompete the rest of the world in the important industries of the 21st century, which is realistically the only way the US can maintain its current position in the current global economy. Without that, the entire system must be entirely overhauled and rebuilt from the ground up, which will take years and could lead to widespread war and suffering in the interim. Let’s all hope this party doesn’t end anytime soon.

That being said, it’s vitally important on the individual level to prepare for some heavy times. I’ve been following this thing as intensely as I can, and I’ve still got no damn idea on whether the stimulus will work to prevent widespread suffering stemming from rapidly mounting job losses as the consumption society winds down. Will it keep things from totally collapsing? That’s about all I can reasonably hope for, given the actions of the new administration, as for what it’s worth, I do think it’s likely that things will mostly continue as normal. People will still start businesses and buy homes and create new technologies, most people will have jobs, food will be available, there will be gas to put in your tanks and heat in your home, though inflation on food and energy will likely be putting a hell of a squeeze on most people, much as we were experiencing the first half of 2008, before the bottom fell out of the financial sector. Property values and rents will likely not rise with the inflation, excepting perhaps sought-after urban areas that are growing despite economic hard times, like Portland, which have disproportionate numbers of educated and unemployed workers and therefore represent opportunities for continued growth even in the face of widespread economic stagnation or depression.

The task for mitigating the effects of inflation on those capable of keeping full employment is, fortuitously, the same as for mitigating the effects of climate change. Reduce your carbon footprint by living within bicycling distance of work, insulating your home as best you can, and turning down the thermostat. Grow as much of your own food as you can to reduce the impact of spiraling food costs. Get rid of unneeded expenses, pay down your debt, and entertain yourself and your friends for free. Collect rainwater from your roof and hope services continue uninterrupted through the worst of it.

The other main thing you can do, that can not only help you to keep full employment but deal with getting stuck in the first place is to organize among your friends and coworkers. There is no more powerful force than humans acting collectively. It is why gangs develop in the slums of the world. It is how humans have evolved to deal with forces they could not control, it is the impetus behind nations, and it is our greatest strength as a species. Get together, protect and help one another. That will help ensure your survival when the system can no longer accommodate you, just as it did for your indigenous ancestors.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to use social media technologies to aid that process, and to do it more effectively than has been done before. 

We live now in the most exciting time to be alive in history. We’re at the edge of a new world order, facing technological progress undreamt of even fifty years ago. How we deal with it will determine the shape of things to come for the next thousand years, and may make the difference between a robust and free world for all of humanity and crushing tyranny and chaos, scrabbling amidst the wreckage of the height of humanity’s progressive impulse.

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Why We Need A Big Green Tech Bubble

Why I’m Rooting for 3 Big Economic Bubbles | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet

The article is quite correct. The sentiment that we don’t need bubbles is utterly irrelevant. Bubbles happen because of the way corporations work, and particularly the way they raise money. Without the dotcom bubble you wouldn’t be reading this. The internet only stands where it is today because everyone got all overexcited and threw money at it, allowing the winning companies to vastly overspend. Sure, they overspent on fancy offices and computers and $1400 Aeron chairs, but they also overspent on hiring the smartest folks around. The huge popular press attention and general excitement about the newly powerful industry attracted thousands of the best minds, pushing it forward faster and faster. And these people, the best and the brightest, they’re still working for internet companies, and we’re still seeing great improvements in communication technology every day. The huge paydays for venture capitalists inspired them to push funds back into the industry, and that hasn’t changed since the bubble burst— the difference is that now you need a profit model, and your company is only worth what money you can make from it in the future (just like every other industry). The bubble bursting was the market figuring out how much that actually was likely to be. So now let’s look at green tech: we stand at the brink of an industry that will represent the entire energy industry within 100 years, at a time when the developing world is getting close to being able to really afford energy, made even more affordable by the scalability down to small village and individual homeowner size. You’d be a fool to think this wasn’t a hell of an industry to invest in. You build these companies here, you build them so fast that you can’t really keep up with it all, the industry’s moving so fast, mint a couple dozen new billionaires, the crowd dumps more and more money at the problem in anticipation of righteous profits (which are in fact coming— Google isn’t overvalued, to look at the last big tech bubble), speculators drive up the prices of the big players, there’s a rush to IPO as the most profitable exit strategy for VC money. And all it takes is for the government to create a little more room for profits in green tech. Already we’re reaching price parity, or coming very close. There are battery advances that put parity into reach for automobiles (quadrupling battery life, rapid recharging abilities), and they will need vast sums of money to get into the sort of economies of scale that will further drive down price points and make it even more dominant. The money we spend now will create a vast industry for the future, and improve the competitive advantage of the US in green technology. As far as outsourcing fears go, you can’t outsource solar panel installation. You can’t outsource efficiency improvements to existing structures. You can’t outsource infrastructure. It is literally building things here. The US already is the largest producer of green tech. The money is already here: it just needs to be sped up so that other countries can’t catch up easily. China is spending vast sums on this stuff— our own spending on green tech is what can ensure we retain the best jobs. Will there be manufacturing jobs in China and elsewhere in green tech? Absolutely. But do you want to work in a factory? I sure don’t. There’s a reason it pays better than retail even at non-union plants. As far as R&D and all that goes, there is a huge cost involved in moving that stuff. What you build here has inertia. It’s getting so India has many fine programmers and web developers. There is certainly some outsourcing of those computer jobs, but all the higher-end jobs are still here in the US, largely due to those jobs being here to begin with. Sure, there are more engineers and scientists moving back to India and China after graduating from US colleges, but that doesn’t mean competing with the US gets all that much easier— again, we have the inertia of the 20th century’s brain drain of most of the world’s best minds all moving to the US. Investing in green tech (and creating more H1Bs) helps ensure that process continues to our advantage. The bubble in green tech bursts when the subsidies are removed. Of course, the subsidies have never been removed for our big factory farms, they’ve never been removed for the oil industry, they’ve never been removed for the auto industry. Our spending on roads creates space for the oil and auto industry to thrive, and for factory farming to ship food all across the country for less than it costs to grow it locally and organically. Those are industries that fail to deliver security, that fail to keep us healthy, that fail to keep us connected to our communities. Green tech and the thinking centered on sustainable industry in general is so much better than that. The spending we do on green tech now creates an industry that can sell the entire world its energy. You’d better believe that’s a bet that will pay off. The bubble isn’t desirable on its own. The bubble is desirable because of the growth it represents. The gambling inherent in a bubble means that a few long shots pay off handsomely. You’re more likely to have radical growth in a bubble economy. The bubble bursting is when the market values return to their true values and the VC money goes only to the reliable bets. The danger is when a bubble is overly tied to the overall economy. For instance, the overall economy of silicon valley is tied to computer and internet technology, so when the bubble burst in 1999, that area was hard hit, and a lot of investors lost money all over. But the stock market taking a dive doesn’t cause most people to lose their homes. That minor recession was not so bad at all, if you’ll remember. The real estate bubble is tied to people’s ability to live their lives in a way that a tech bubble could never be. And if we can keep the recession from turning into a death spiral, we’ll be better off for the real estate bubble on the whole, inasmuch as there’s a whole lot of really nice homes in America now that will continue to be nice for a decade or two even if the real estate market continues to lie in the doldrums the whole time. If it doesn’t get totally out of hand, the main result of the real estate bubble popping is that the market value of property shifts to match its economic value, and the Democrats get a big win that gives America health care and an opportunity for a better standard of living. Clearly we have a lot to fix, but we can definitely grow the economy enough to pay off the debt we accumulate. 

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Seen in San Jose

Seen in San Jose

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Amanda Palmer and the Vagaries of Viral Marketing

Female artist’s belly too fat for record label - The F-Word

Call me a cynical manipulative bastard, but if I had an album and I wanted some serious free promotion, I would consider staging a fight with my record label. The contract is for x number of albums, by which time x years from now everyone has totally forgotten, and even most of the faces at the label are different, so when and if you renew you can brush it all under the carpet, ‘just business’.
Great viral meme. I almost certainly would never have seen the video without the meta-narrative of an asshole record label oppressing a normal female body tickling my injustice button. Would you? I mean, it’s a great song with a great video, but how many music videos do you really watch in a given month?
I’m Not saying this is staged, just pointing out the incredibly net-positive effect this thing will have on the brand of Amanda Palmer. I guess what I’m saying is that even assuming that some schlub at Roadrunner is so incredibly sexist and ignorant as to ask for the changes reported here, it seems somewhat unlikely that they would be so far beyond that, to be so short-sighted as to take a firm stand on the issue and deliver some sort of ultimatum, and that this ultimatum would be made by someone who actually had the authority to do so, which you would HAVE to assume would come back to bite you in the ass if you didn’t have a good mechanism to profit by it. Obviously I’m projecting, but it does seem like a lot to believe.
If I were CEO of Roadrunner and I knew for sure I had a lock on her contract, and it got back to me that Amanda is pissed over some sexist thing one of my producers has suggested, I’d apologize to her, get him to apologize, move him to some other project away from her (or use it as an opportunity to fire him if I didn’t like him or it was politically necessary), encourage the story to spread all over the net as fast as possible, and then sit back and wait for when the fervor is getting really intense and the boycott is looming, before getting out there with Amanda, with her triumphant and the label rep contrite and making overtures to the community that forms around the story, play it down and isolate the action from the company, standard pr crap. Then, what the hey, you attempt to work with Amanda to engage that community with some outreach, maybe a book deal for all the beautiful bellies, with the proceeds going to breast cancer or some such, and a concert tour of badass women rockstars, again with the proceeds going to charity, and the whole episode becomes part of her little narrative of fame, her cult of personality, the story of the time she stood up to her record label and forced them to change, and still nobody really remembers or cares about the fine details, and everybody smiles that we’ve gotten to make the world a better place, and she can reference it with her fans like some sort of inside joke that makes everyone feel all warm and fuzzy and connected.
The net effect of all that is that her audience grows a lot stronger and more devoted (which is both hard to do and vitally important), there’s a ton of free publicity for the album and all the marketing materials (like the video), profits are up, it becomes a little less acceptable to be a sexist in the record business, and the company gets to put a feather in its cap for changing what shouldn’t exist in the first place. Or maybe I’m just a cynic looking for all the angles, and they’re a bunch of sexist assholes after all. Hard to say, really. I’d LOVE a more in depth article. Because quite frankly, right now this is all just gossip and drama, and it doesn’t mean much.

Nov 27
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Talking about The Past and Future Web

In discussing what essentially amounts to recursive structures in business, or viral marketing of the sort only loosely related to the bastardized thing that gets tossed around when you start talking memes, some big boys were mentioned, talking about their viral growth strategy. Google, Amazon, eBay and PayPal were all mentioned as sites that make a profit off helping other people make and spend money.

You could also add sites like Etsy and Elance to the list of viral growth sites based around helping people make money as well, though they’re basically targeted ebay clones. Note that Amazon’s main viral growth draws were its reviews, the suggestion system, its affiliate programs and its user-created lists. With Google it’s all about the adsense. But in terms of each of them becoming synonymous with their function, it’s because they were clearly superior services at the time they established dominance. Google was miles ahead of Yahoo and AltaVista in terms of the quality of search results when it first came out. It should be no surprise that with a great branding effort (don’t be evil) atop what seemed to me at the time to be a clearly superior product, Google of course rapidly ate up market share. Coming up with a great profit model and viral scheme shortly thereafter was just the icing on the cake. They would have won without the viral reinforcement because their success was a meme in and of itself. The story of their rapid success and unique corporate culture was noteworthy enough to get loads of free press both on and off the net. Amazon won because they provided better prices, free shipping, and reviews right there, and those two major booksellers who already had a valuable brand in the field are now on the brink of destruction, with Borders charging headlong towards the abyss) in part as a result of not moving fast enough or providing a significant enough improvement on Amazon’s early model. And let’s be very clear here— the cat is long out of the bag on the viral thing. This is one of thousands of conversations going on right now on this subject. I’m gonna go ahead and argue that this is a tried and true web business basic, and everyone wants to do the viral thing. There’s a very fine business to be had consulting slow companies on the subject which likely pays far better than blogging about it (much less commenting), but that reinforces the point. You’ve got to be awesome. If there’s more than one of you in a space, you have to be so clearly the best it would seem like entering the dark ages of 1999 to set foot on your competitor’s site. In the future, your browser might evolve into a total internet awareness system. You know at all times wherever you are whenever anyone messages you, mails you, or comments on your page at all the popular social networks plus the traditional standalone services plus all the custom micro networks you’re part of, and just for good measure, whenever anyone mentions you anywhere on the internet. Signing up for new networks is easy as shit, and your total online presence is so searchable it’s scary, every post, every picture, your home address, religious beliefs, the comments I’m leaving right now, everything you ever put anywhere if it can be traced to you, even using the social network to make those links. We’re already getting close. http://www.pipl.com has a scary amount of information. Not necessarily about me because I was a ghost until a couple years ago, but other people, for sure. It’s not there yet, but you can see it on the horizon. Information will be incredibly targeted, gleaned from the tweets and tumblrs and blogs and comments of those who think like you do and talk like you do and are all interested in all the same things delivered so seamlessly it makes RSS look like a goddamned bad joke. That intelligent information delivery service will use that same analysis to pair you up with a social network so similar to you that you’ll want to puke in your mouth a little just talking to them, and it will shift with your interests over time by analyzing what you say to people and what you spend the most time digging into, not just at one site, but at all of them. You’ll look up your purchase history and see everything you’ve ever bought. Look up your comment history and it’s got everything you’ve ever said in a comment (http://www.commentino.com), it has your high score for Tetris, It has access to everything that you have ever written across all networks. It starts pushing new music at you just as you grow bored of the last stuff you found. It will arrange a date for you according to your preferences in pornography and bible quotes and how well your friends would get along. It will be scary and a huge invasion of privacy except for those taking the very greatest of care to keep their anonymity, and you will buy it because each step will be a little thing, and it will all be TREMENDOUSLY CONVENIENT. Every step forward we take will be because somebody made something that has genuine value, and all the big APIs will split up the advertising dollars however they can. Alright, I’ve forgotten entirely where I was going with this, but it’s in a fun spot so we’ll leave it there.

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An Open Letter To Paul Carpenter

In response to your column about the cultural plague of tattoo work, and the subsequent followup column:

You, sir, are a bigot. No, there is no sense in trying to deny it. It’s the simple case. Admit it! You are a prejudiced man. You hate people who modify their bodies. ‘Avoid the generalization that others who get tattoos are necessarily bad’? You compared liking tattoos to supporting white supremacists and child molesters! Don’t lie about it! You are a bigot. You have bigoted opinions, and you attempt to spread them to others. You profit by the bigotry of others. Why try to deny it? You’re a bigot: it’s who you are. Be proud!
Let’s look at your argument. More than a third of Americans have tattoos, and tattoos used to be mostly for rebels and outcasts from society. So if you write an article that investigates that growing subculture of body modders, that is therefore ‘glamorizing’ the ‘decline of american culture’ because it doesn’t reflect your prejudice? Okay, so lots of people that you would consider to be ‘bad’ have tattoos. The criminal element, the poor, anti-establishment punk kids, young women who really like sex but consistently ignore your very existence, young women who ignore your very existence unless you give them money. You know, anyone you can still get away with hating in this terribly politically correct world. Now, explain to me how exactly you draw the conclusion that modifying your body to look how you want it to look contributes to the decline of society. Is there any actual logic there or is it simply guilt by association? 
There’s an expression used in statistics which I think might prove educational for you: Correlation Does Not Indicate Causation. Failure to understand that very simple concept often leads to extreme examples of wrong-headed blather. For example, take your bigoted article: you can tiptoe all around it, you can pretend like you’re being taken out of context, but come on, you know that’s just being disingenuous to keep from suffering the shame of admitting you were wrong. We aren’t so stupid as you would make us out to be. See, back in high school, we learned about this thing called ‘subtext’. You might have heard of it— it means that you can make certain assumptions about what someone thinks based on things they say. Having a clear subtext is part and parcel to good writing. It is the foundation of any ‘authorial voice’ in writing. Your voice is clear in your original column. It presents itself unambiguously. It is bold and incisive. Why would you back down from it? 
I mean seriously, be a man! Grow a pair and defend your stance as a bigot! You obviously feel you have some moral authority as a champion of propriety, you might as well stand and defend that authority in the face of those who argue for the cultural ascendance of diversity and universal tolerance. Or alternately, own up to your mistake, try to learn to appreciate those who are different from you, and join the 21st century. Either way, you need to stop prevaricating. Seriously, you sound like a dumb weaselly politician, swinging wildly between ‘you misunderstood me’ and ‘you’re all so stupid and vulgar’, as though a person’s vulgarity of expression somehow negates the validity of their argument. 
Is it that you’re afraid that you’ll get fired if you dare to own up to your ridiculous viewpoint? Could it be that you recognize the obsolescence and cultural impropriety of your opinion and so you fear the repercussions of making your bigotry unambiguous? Perhaps you more accurately feel that the surest example of the cultural decay you mention is your own quite appropriate fear of consequences for spreading your prejudice, and you just care more about being paid for your opinion than the sanctity of that opinion in the first place. You recognize that society has long since grown past the point where it’s acceptable to be prejudiced, and so you have to skate around your irrational hatred. Don’t let anyone find out! So we get this half-assed blame-shifting piece of misdirection as a follow-up to your insane ranting. It’s blatant cowardice is what it is. If you can’t stand up and support what you obviously believe and accept the consequences (including possibly losing your job); if you don’t believe in your argument so strongly that you’re willing to actually fight for it, then maybe you ought to consider changing your mind on the issue. You know, adopt some minor degree of journalistic impartiality. A little professionalism, perhaps. 
Look, I could easily go through your columns line by line and point out to you the errors in logic, the factual and historical inaccuracies, the cheap manipulations and ad hominem attacks, the straw man arguments and egregiously erroneous assumptions; but really, it’s not my job to point out your many sins, though you seem to delight in wagging your finger at others’. That stuff is obvious to anyone with half a brain, anyway. 
You know what’s funny? I don’t even have any body mods. I just couldn’t help but inform you just how completely irrelevant you are. It’s kind of pathetic, I know, but I just have to hope that somehow you’ll see this as an inspiration to grow and change into somewhat less of a reprehensible fascist. 
Please, enjoy your day. 
Uriahhttp://rocke.tumblr.com 

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Pornography didn’t steal my culture. It never made me rape, it never denied my autonomy, it never made me a poster victim, it never actively worked to silence and dismiss me and women like me, it never ignored or twisted my words for its own agenda…it never hurt me, and even with the name calling, it never implied that women like me, and our bodies, were hideous.
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Quite Possibly the Cutest Thing Ever: (via Boing Boing)

Jun 29
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