May 2010
121 posts
The Sestak Smokescreen :: Whose Blowing It? →
Notes from North of 49ºN
The above AP video shows Pennsylvania House of Representatives member Joe Sestak, who beat White House supported Arlen Specter in the Democratic…
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“We see many people who are experiencing an onset of acute psychosis. There is a...”
– Dr. Maryvonne Bargues, a psychiatrist working with MSF in Haiti
Haiti: Time Passes But Medical Needs Persist
(via doctorswithoutborders)
Trade your Facebook in for a Fakebook →
Today, while speaking to WYPR (Baltimore’s NPR affiliate) about the latest iteration of Facebook privacy concerns, I brought up the idea of not using your real name on Facebook…
sticker shock →
A new study finds that it now costs approximately $60,000 a year for a family of four to survive in Philadelphia without government assistance, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. This…
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Is My Thesis Hot or Not? →
booyahgrandma:
Tumblr academics, you have to check this out.
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Black Feminist Thought: Nearly twenty years on →
Current policy that puts black men behind bars keeps black women in confines of their own. According to a recent Economist editorial, “between the ages of 20 and 29, one black man in nine…
Specter & the Spectre of Incumbency →
Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., along with his daughter, Alex, and his wife, Susan, speaks at a primary night watch event at the Valley Forge Military Academy & College in Wayne, Pa., Tuesday,…
The Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act: A... →
2009 Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Ranking Map
By Rachael Liberman
In an effort to combine press freedom and human rights, President Obama signed new legislation, titled…
So You Wanted to Start a Sex Blog… →
image:: The Beautiful Kind, Riverfront Times, by Emily Good
Originally posted on rhizomicon
A Twitter glitch caused the anonymous St. Louis sex blogger behind The Beautiful Kind
living vicariously through virtual me →
The Los Angeles Times reports that there can be a disconnect between our “real life” and virtual personalities:
Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter,…
Hyphenated Comedy :: Indo-Canadian Québec Comic... →
Montréal comic, Samir Khullar AKA “Sugar Sammy”, www.themovienetwork.ca
Notes from north of 49ºN
“Sugar Sammy” is an Indo-Canadian comic with a cultural studies degree from McGill who…
Students protest in Puerto Rico, but where’s the... →
Two weeks ago, my post, the 40th Anniversary of Kent State: a gap in our historical knowledge?, addressed the reasons why we remember certain events and not others. As a current example…
Facebook Fatigue and Privacy Panic: Has the Golden... →
For years, we have been deluged with stories about the the dangers of online social media. But in the last several months, a new kind of story has suddenly swept mainstream media and the…
For a Change: Good News in Racial, Ethnic, &... →
I know many of my recent posts have focused on the “bad news” — examples of tensions and hostilities when it comes to racial/ethnic and immigration news. However, there are certainly examples of the…
