Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
This week, gapingwhole has a special treat for you. We recently ran a contest and solicited guest contributions (and by ‘solicited’, we mean that westwood assigned 70+ brilliant people to write a blog post and selected the best). Regardless, we are pleased to introduce one of the three fantastic winning posts! Keep reading for a [...]
Filed under: politics, science | 9 Comments
Tags: earthquakes, Itality, L'aquila, manslaughter, seismology, trial
by fluidfyre The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been making headlines lately, as its first hearing in the House happened recently. While I am not American, the act raises some interesting ideas for debate, and got me thinking about censorship in general, and how far freedom of speech should go. Feel free to check out the [...]
Filed under: politics, understanding | 10 Comments
Tags: censorship, free speech, George Carlin, SOPA
A moment of silence
by westwood Well I’ve been silent lately because I’ve been trekking across the country with thebigbookofdating for a month. But she wandered off on a plane this morning, coincidentally at the same airport where I both first and last met Jack Layton a few months ago. I was too afraid to speak to him. He [...]
Filed under: politics | 8 Comments
Tags: airport, bigbookofdating, Canada, cancer, jack layton, NDP, politics, sad
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