Pepper Sprayed in Oakland: Aftermath
Reflections on the mugging attack I sustained April 8 2013 (see previous blog entry).
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Occupy the Media
How do we counter the demand for insanely spendy political campaigns? How do we boycott propaganda?
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Why I Planned a Home Birth (and You Should Too)
Why a home birth is worth fighting for! With pictures from the birth of my son.
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Should We Allow Market Conversations With Minors?
Tweet Sympathetically incensed by this post on DadWagon.com entitled, “Dear General Mills: Fuck You”, I started giving some thought to the problem of highly child-attractive packaging selling food that even pigeons would reject. The kind of food for which it seems that the lower the cost of the ingredients, the greater the expenditure on marketing [...]
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Stephen Quayle Commands Freaky Web Traffic
Meet Steven Quayle. His readers/followers seem to wind up on the H+ Magazine website a lot.
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All Bosses Suck
I stayed up past pi o’clock on a work night to post a very long comment on a high-falutin’ academic blog that has a mission statement. me=sucker.
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The Trouble with Traffic Laws
Tweet CriticalMass.org posted a blurb about a study in the UK showing how women cyclists are more likely to get run down than men cyclists, apparently because they are far more likely to stop at red lights and stop signs and follow car traffic laws. A commenter named Elijah responded by asserting that he felt [...]
