Anarchy, Activism and Assholes - Finding Common Ground.
Hey, it's been a while. It's been difficult scraping up a reason to write, and a lot of that has had to do with the sense that I'd been repeating myself. A lot. Over and over and over.And yet, I can't stop. If it's not here, well, I'm off whacking moles on Reddit. Yes, I am an Redditor. It kind of snuck up on me.Anyhoo, one of those reddit bounce-abouts - from front page to article to comment thread to embedded link - led me to a page where this was in the sidebar. Well, something like that.Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?  It ha...
Source: Graphictruth - June 21, 2013 Category: Autism Source Type: blogs

So, Alaska is in the news again...
I'm still largely ignoring political stories but I haven't cancelled my email subs, and this story landed in my email inbox via truthout.Bill Fulton, undercover FBI informant in the “Alaska Militia Trial,” gave a lengthy interview to The Mudflats about his role in the case, and his controversial life in Anchorage before it was revealed. In this article, he shares his candid opinion about local Anchorage media, national progressive media, Joe Miller, and what they got wrong. Yours truly didn’t even escape entirely unscathed. This was republished from The Mudflats with credit but no link. So read it here. Credit w...
Source: Graphictruth - January 29, 2013 Category: Autism Source Type: blogs

Cui Bono? Aaron Swartz and all the rest
Cui Bono : RIP Aaron Swartz by webcarve Cui bono ("To whose benefit?", literally "as a benefit to whom?", a double dative construction), also rendered as Cui prodest, is a Latin adage that is used either to suggest a hidden motive or to indicate that the party responsible for something may not be who it appears at first to be.Commonly the phrase is used to suggest that the person or people guilty of committing a crime may be found among those who have something to gain, chiefly with an eye toward financial gain. The party that benefits may not always be obvious or may ...
Source: Graphictruth - January 14, 2013 Category: Autism Source Type: blogs