I am growing increasingly aware of and sick of the role power plays in society. I’m not necessarily talking about political power, but power & status in every day interactions between people. Demonstrating some skill, or knowing some fact, to make yourself look better. Finding activities or conversation topics that make yourself […]

So I’m doing some research on Redding v. Safford (more on that later) and I see the US Supreme Court granted certiorari to another case on the same day as Redding. It looked to be about special education and who gets the bill for it. Somewhat dry stuff from a youth rights perspective, […]

Sad and funny at the same time.

source: www.chromecow.com (server down now)
US Democracy Server: Patch Day
Version 44.0
Tue 20 Jan 2009
President
* Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
* A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.
* Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug […]

Russia has now shut off all gas to Europe/the Ukraine. I’m finding this situation very interesting, but also damn scary at the same time. To be clear, I’m a bit more scared of the American response than Russia’s actions. Many Americans seem to be stuck in a Cold War mindset and are […]