Archive for January, 2006

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Friday, January 27th, 2006

This be some funny shit, yo. Check it out:
http://media.putfile.com/ultimateshowdown
Edit: the lyrics

Getting History Right Helps the Present

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I totally agree with with Matt:
Surely nobody wants to take anything away from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s impressive achievements. Nevertheless, I always feel that the cult of King serves in an unfortunate way to obscure the fact that the Civil Rights movement wasn’t something one dude dreamed up in mid-1950s Alabama and achieved over the […]

Required Reading for Every Youth Rights Activist

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

As far as modern day youth rights gospels go, you can’t get much better than Bob Franklin’s introduction to the “Handbook of Children’s Rights” I’ve seen no better succinct and cogent explanation of the assumptions that drive our work, the key logical arguments that support our work, and a complete undressing of those who […]

The Best Way to Teach Religion: Don’t.

Friday, January 20th, 2006

While it may floor them to hear me say this, I really think my parents got it right with how they approached religion with me.
Reading through the Christian Forums got me thinking, despite the fact that I’m more religious than 90% of the people on the East Coast (rough estimate) I still don’t […]

The Indignities of Being Young

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Ageism manifests itself in so many ways. Typically at NYRA we chose to focus on the big issues that are enshrined in law and stand as barriers to equal status and civic involvement for youth like the voting age or the drinking age. However it is often the day-to-day elements of our age […]

Fighting Back Against the Spam

Friday, January 13th, 2006

The other day I went through here and deleted over 1,000 trackback spam messages. I then went through and closed all my entries to trackbacks. So if you’re looking to quote and give a track back for something I wrote in the past, just let me know and I’ll reopen it.
I […]

New Hampshire Considers Lowering the Drinking Age

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Great news, New Hampshire has joined Vermont and Wisconsin in introducing bills to lower the drinking age. Unlike Vermont though, the New Hampshire bill covers just those serving in the military. So if you are 18 and in the military you could legally drink in New Hampshire. Its a positive step […]

I’ve got such a one track mind.

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I got IMed by a bot on Yahoo last night, I thought perhaps you’d all enjoy our interchange:

dahrkhole: hi…. anyone there?
Alex: yup
dahrkhole: well anyway, guess your not there?
dahrkhole: oh your there ) hi…
Alex: heh
Alex: who is this?
dahrkhole: a/s/l (age sex locatiion)?
Alex: 24/m/MD
dahrkhole: im 27/f/USA. was loookin at your profile. thought you might […]