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Getting Organized Is A Full-Time Job
Boy have I been busy. Let me tell you about it~! I currently have three active client projects – one is almost finished, one is mid-way, and another is barely started. I’ve completely redesigned LowGenius.Com and added a HUGE bunch of tools and processes. Unfortunately for readers of this blog, 99% of it is for…
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Literacy And The Media
Literacy And The Media Date: 2008-12-17 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text A few more egregious examples of media illiteracy. Today’s mangled verbiage comes to us courtesy of political megablog The Huffington Post. An entry from an article by Joe Cutbirth: “Kennedy had a catharsis of sorts during the Obama campaign and learned she liked public…
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An Open Letter To Parents
An Open Letter To Parents Date: 2008-12-14 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text As a former student at PNHS who went on to a nice decade and a half or so of fairly hard-core abuse before I realized what it was doing to me and left it behind, I’d like to point out a few realities…
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Holiday Cheer?
So it's not a big secret among those who know me that I live with undiagnosed manic depression. It's not something that's completely debilitating – although I do occasionally have times when getting out of bed is a struggle – but more like an inconvenience. It gets in the way, sometimes. I tend to get…
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The RIGHT Way To Protest Prop 8
The RIGHT Way To Protest Prop 8 Date: 2008-11-08 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text I’m seeing a lot of messages in the Google AdSense Help Forums lately like this: “As a Gay voter AND constant user of Google’s products and services, I am disappointed, nay pissed rather, with GOOGLE for its Pro Proposition 8 ads…
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Campaign Analysis and Commentary, 6-Oct-2008
With every day that passes, I get a little more fascinated with the huge differences between the Obama and McCain campaign's tactics and strageies. Here's a little sample of what we've heard today from both sides. Sarah Palin “They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in…
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Why Voting Against The Bailout Is A Good Thing
Why Voting Against The Bailout Is A Good Thing Date: 2008-09-29 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text Today, House republicans (and about 100 democrats as well) voted against a $700 billion bail-out package for large investment banks. The pundits scream. The president screams. The candidates scream. Everyone says OH NO, IT’S ARMAGEDDON! But you see…I’m not…
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Obama a Muslim? So what?
From Time Magazine, via http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080918/us_time/maxedoutmoms That sentiment is echoed by Beth Seidel, a factory worker in Cleveland who works the third shift so she can take her son to school and then to practices for the four sports he plays. Pausing recently at a Wal-Mart, she said: “Honestly, I don’t know what to do. I…
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The Way Of The Kook
Date: 2008-09-18Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text A few years back, after spending a lot of time participating in various Usenet newsgroups and attracting a fair bit of unwanted attention along with the wanted, I found the collection of kookologists at alt.usenet.kooks, who made it their mission to identify, classify, and horrify nutjobs. Not people with…
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Why Bristol Palin’s Pregnancy IS ‘Fair Game’
Why Bristol Palin’s Pregnancy IS ‘Fair Game’ Date: 2008-09-18 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text As someone who has long been vocally opposed to right-wing religious fundamentalism, I had to laugh when the Bristol Palin pregnancy story caused thousands of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians to suddenly come out in favor of pre-marital teenage pregnancy, with the…