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Anoka, Minnesota

February 7, 2012
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Anoka, Minnesota

This is horrifying on a level I can barely contemplate, and I spend my spare time sitting around thinking up horrifying things to write, people. The school district insists it has been portrayed unfairly. Superintendent Carlson points out it has been working hard to address the mental-health needs of its students by hiring more counselors and staff – everything, it seems, but admit that its policy has created problems for its LGBT community. "We understand that gay kids are bullied and harassed on a daily basis," and that that can lead to suicide, Carlson says. "But that was not...

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Google's Breaking the Internet?

January 4, 2012
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Google's Breaking the Internet?

I think someone's got their knickers in a knot over a couple of things that aren't technically G+/Google's fault, here. 1) If you quote someone else's work, you should attribute it, full stop, regardless of the platform you share it on. On social media networks, it can get a little tricky to share links and do proper attribution. One of my favorite tools is the bit.ly extension available for FireFox and Chrome. (And possibly IE, but seriously, why are you still using that? Stop it.) [Bit.ly for...

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RIAA Pirates 9 Million Worth of TV Shows

December 21, 2011
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RIAA Pirates 9 Million Worth of TV Shows

This story makes me so happy I can hardly stand it. Well, not this specific story, although I do like it, but the fact that someone over at the RIAA pirated an absolute metric crapton of TV episodes. And then to make the "Well, it was just someone using our IP address" excuse… People, it doesn't get any better than that. Particularly when you can prove that, no, those IP addresses actually do belong to the RIAA. It's like the happiest little Christmas story ever. #ImSoBloggingThis #RIAA #Piracy Embedded Link You Won't Believe the RIAA’s Pathetic Excuse For Their...

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Insider Trading in Congress

December 14, 2011
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Hang on… isn't insider trading illegal, period? Why do we need a special law to stop Congresspeople from doing it? We put Martha Stewart in jail for this, didn't we? We can put Martha Freakin' Stewart in jail, but not a congressperson? WTF, people? #ImSoBloggingThis #InsiderTrading #Congress #WTF Reshared post from +Anderson Cooper 360 Keeping Them Honest, the AC360 staff called every U.S. legislator to go on the record about the STOCK act, a bill that would bar lawmakers from trading stocks using nonpublic information. Here's Anderson's report: http://on.cnn.com/sCSiRB Embedded Link Video: KTH: Congress shelves bill on insider trading...

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-Isms

December 8, 2011
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-Isms

The whole article is good, but the real gem came out of the comments section. Here it is: "You can’t be sexist towards men. Sexism is prejudice + power/privilege. You can be prejudiced towards men, but sexism is solely something that targets and affects women." This applies to any "ism" – racism, ageism, religion… ism… (? Is that a thing?). A black person can be prejudiced against white people, but they can't be racist, because they don't have the power. An atheist can be intolerant of Christians, but they can't oppress them, because the atheist doesn't have the backing...

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