Posts tagged “culture & society” 

From the plazes photostream.

I just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and it really opened my eyes. Clevery subtitled “How (Not) To Get By in America,” the book is a chronicle of Ehrenreich’s “adventures“ in survival as a member of the low-wage workforce that serves our meals, cleans our homes, and cares for our elderly.

So, upon returning home from SXSW and cracking open the new issue of Seed, I read something I wish I’d known before “ Having sex is the best way to prepare for a speech.”

It appears that some Dems, including my Representative from the 3rd District in Connecticut, Rosa De Lauro, are trying to cripple our democracy under the guise of public financing.

This is perhaps the coolest (albeit experimental) way to browse Flickr: retrievr from System One Labs.

In the interest of observing politics and activism online, I have signed up for numerous newsletters from groups across the political spectrum. The one thing I find very striking is how much freedom is given to an individual to add a personal message or rewrite a letter in support of or against a particular issue by the “left.” The “right,” however, does not seem to have any interest in their activists' opinions.

All this week, the Secretary of State’s office is offering demonstrations of and soliciting public comment on the three finalists for Connecticut’s electronic voting machines.

Here in Connecticut, the Secretary of State is getting ready to purchase new computerized voting machines and is doing an exhibition of the different options throughout the state's five Congressional Districts. As computerized voting is such a hot topic right now, I highly recommend anyone and everyone who lives in my state go to one of the exhibitions and offer some sort of public comment.

I knew things had taken a turn for the worse when DMCA passed and media owners were discussing their desire to spy on consumers' computers in search of illicit media, but who knew it had gotten this bad?