Libby indicted, not Rove though:
Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis “Scooter’ Libby Jr. was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case.
Karl Rove, President Bush’s closest adviser, escaped indictment Friday but remained under investigation, his legal status a looming political problem for the White […]

While the following is rather bitter and unjustly critical towards yours truly, its still a neat, well-written story, so I’m sharing it. Hopefully the author can put her good writing skills and creativity to better uses than satisfying her personal grudges and fantasizing about my death. So here is the unedited mystery of […]

Last night’s World Series win by the Chicago White Sox (their first since 1917) got me thinking. One often hears complaints about baseball, that its not as fair as leagues like the NFL or NBA where there is a salary cap. That in baseball major markets who can raise more money can afford […]

First I’d like to honor a great figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Those of us active in this new civil rights movement, youth rights, need to recognize and learn from those people who came before us, especially in movements for minority rights and women’s rights. So my hat is off to the […]

Good news. It squeaked by though, which isn’t too much of a surprize that the Sunnis weren’t happy with it (and have many legitimate reasons not to be happy with it), but at least they voted. That’s key. The article also says they are organizing politically for the December elections so they […]

No, I’m not becoming a Mormon. But I had intended to get into the habit of every Sunday posting some interesting book excepts or extended quotes from some of the great writers and thinkers in this field, but I didn’t get to it last night. So instead of yesterday, I present something to […]

It being Sunday, the day many Americans (like myself) read from the Good Book, attend church and are inspired by the wise, loving message of Christ and all of God’s prophets, I have decided to provide inspiration to the rest of you with a passage from a different kind of prophet. Hear the good […]

Once again, Sven has got me thinking. His most recent post deals with the history of youth rights, and he mentioned an interest in writing something on the topic. The history of our movement is a topic that I find endlessly fascinating. I know deep in my gut that what we are […]

Sven, in his usual kick-ass thoughtfulness, has written up a nice outline/essay about what he feels the limits of thinking of youth rights in terms of ‘civil rights’ and not ‘liberation’. He says:
Since the emergence of modern Youth Liberation thinking in the early 1970s, the movement has largely worked within a “civil rights” model. […]

Language is important for new movements such as youth rights. We are given the very difficult task of presenting very new ideas to a skeptical public, and as with anything else, very new concepts require new terms to describe them. For example, concepts such as sexism weren’t around forever, and were only created […]