It took me a very very long time to upgrade my cellphone to a smart phone (and it wouldn’t have happened if my parents weren’t so Rad – thanks mom!). I didn’t *really* want one for all of my socioeconomic-political-hippie-resistance reasons.. but now that I have one.. can I just say how impressed I am!?!?!… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
SignOn.org Beta. Interesting. Since most of us have loans from banks.. what would this do to the financial industry? What will they say will be the repercussions? Does it matter? We’ve bailed them out once already. At least this would have a purpose behind it: Forgiving the student loan debt of all Americans will have an immediate stimulative effect… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
If there is any social/political issue millenials can get behind, it’s legalizing weed: Marijuana question sky-rockets to top of new White House petition site | The Raw Story. The petition, on the White House’s “We the People” site, asks: “Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol? If not, please… [Read more…]
September 9, 2011
The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets – COLORLINES. I think it’s important to stop and assess what role we all have in this. I don’t have an iphone, i have a laptop though, and my poor nokia will only last so long… In Foxconn’s highest-paying factories, located in China’s coastal cities,… [Read more…]
August 21, 2011
Guernica / Bruce E. Levine: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the U.S. Crushed Youth Resistance. Here are the 8 points, but seriously give it a read: 1. Student-Loan Debt. 2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance. 3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy. 4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to… [Read more…]
August 12, 2011
“Design thinking” making its way into Hawaii classrooms | KHON2 Hawaii’s News Leader. hells yes! Originated at Stanford University, design thinking is a technique used by businesses which involves brain storming, working with others, team building and thinking outside the box when it comes to problem solving. “I think we are too analytical, its using… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
Not Mindless | No Vacation. Check it: To say “This act was mindless” is to say there was no causeworth caring about. The very laws of science tell us that for an effect, there must be a cause. So this approach is to so belittle that cause as to deem it irrelevant. But look what… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
Nothing ‘mindless’ about rioters – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. More broadly, any breakdown of civil order is inescapably political. Quite large numbers of mostly young people have decided that, on balance, they want to take to the streets and attack the forces of law and order, damage property or steal goods. Their motives may… [Read more…]
July 28, 2011
Conservatives angry over Pell Grant funding in Boehner debt bill – TheHill.com. an uneducated population is an easily manipulated population. they love having sheeple. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) has compared Pell Grants to “welfare”. “So you can go to college on Pell Grants — maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it’s turning out… [Read more…]
July 28, 2011
House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history | The Raw Story. Here we go… CNET reportedthe bill would require ISPs to retain customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses for 12 months. The bill passed by a vote of 19 to 10, and… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
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