Aerial Hunting of Wolves

Aerial Hunting of Wolves

Sarah Palin enthusiastically defends the cruel practice of shooting wolves from the air. Palin has proposed legislation – and even cash incentives – to encourage this practice. She offered aerial hunters a state payment of $150 for every wolf killed before it was defeated by the state superior court as an illegal use of bounty payments. Back in 2007, she had already approved spending $400,000 of state money to counter a citizens’ initiative at halting the killing of animals from…

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Democratic Party and Democrat, not Democrat Party

Democratic Party and Democrat, not Democrat Party

I’ve been noticing an upsurge lately in the frequency of some Republicans referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Party.” It’s not the Democrat Party. It’s the Democratic Party. A member of the Democratic Party is a Democrat. I don’t know what the right-wing imagines might be gained by referring to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. The far right seems to think that this terminology works as a pejorative. It doesn’t. It just makes you sound a…

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25 Random Meme Hits the Press

25 Random Meme Hits the Press

The highly successful Facebook meme “25 Random Things about Me” has now – for good or ill – made it into the major news media. Time, Salon, and newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have all carried stories on the trendy epidemic and how it’s vectored. It’s only a variation of the memes bloggers have been playing with for more than five years now, but considering the viral theme I think it’s kinda neat that I’m…

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Speaking at SemTech

Speaking at SemTech

I’ll be speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, June 17, 2009! Messy Folksonomies: The Uses of Metanoise for Better Organizational Collaboration This presentation will consider the uses of bottom-up, co-evolving folksonomies for better communication and collaboration across disciplinary lines. For reasons of efficiency, semantic technologies often focus on terminological control. However, where several types of discourse exist within the same organization, a layer of bottom-up vocabulary provides a space for the change…

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Entrecard Top Droppers

Entrecard Top Droppers

Appreciation and link love for my top droppers in January! Feel free to comment while you’re here – no need to drop and run. BMWF1Blog – All the buzz about the BMW Sauber F1 team. Subjective Soup – A hearty mix of different thoughts from a retired teacher, empty-nester, and optimist – seasoned with a hint of attitude. Entrecard SEO – Search engine optimization tips for Entrecard. My notes – A diary of notes about online services and tools. Zero–…

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Feedback from a Former Jehovah’s Witness

Feedback from a Former Jehovah’s Witness

This is the kind of feedback that makes it all worthwhile. Thank you for responding, and best wishes to you on your journey! Until recently, I was just an ex-JW. But now I’m really trying to become a recovering JW. I realized that as soon as I was df’d, I just threw myself into a frenzy of activities and poor choices, with no real direction. I think I was trying to stay busy so I’d forget about it all. But…

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