http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 00:41:01 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:41:01 Fastest growing student debt demographic is [a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/30/student-debt-demographics-is-for-profit-education-.aspx"]35-49[/a]. What job prospects to people pushing middle age have that will outweigh their crippling student debt? (Speaking as one among their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/492 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:25:05 If rec'ing is a form of voting - and it is - why not just extend this line of thought to actual elections? Why have private ballots? If you have nothing to hide, you can't fear any kind of retribution by the majority. Right? [i]Right?![/i]


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Added for the sarcasm-impaired.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/491 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:18:31 Most recently, this week, listening to Michael Moore's new autobiography on cd. Right before that, it was during the OWS rousting in Zuccatti Park. Right before that (maybe 3 weeks ago now), reading Naomi Wolf's The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot, where she actually writes (p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/490 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:02:52 He was reviled and threatened for trying to break the color barrier, but it wasn't until he started speaking up for labor and against Vietnam that he was killed. Because that was a much worse threat to the 1%.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/489 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:21:29 You've never heard of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965? There was a brutal little incident on the Pettus Bridge that helped shape public opinion in favor of the civil rights activists. It's the non-violent resistance to the status quo coupled with the constant interruption to business goin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/488 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:24:53 is a short-term proposition. The idea is to put so much pressure on the institutions that they must negotiate with The People to make new laws and regulations. This has happened many times in our history, but most notably with The People's action to shut down the Birmingham bus lines lead by Rosa Pa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/487 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:40:14 There are so many threads swirling around I'm having a hard time keeping track of what's happening. Here's what I think has happened over the last 24 hours:

1) Riot police raid OWS in Zucotti Park, trashing thousands of dollars of private property, arresting about 200 people, while blocking off e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/486 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:16:44 Non-profits use volunteers but DU is not now, nor has ever been, a non-profit, although it has been running on a non-profit model. The reason the mods were volunteers was that they were devoted to the scrappy little underdog site. Now that DU is obviously prospering, it's time for the admins to pony... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/485 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:13:01 Was 12 and baby sitting for a really rich family. The parents invited me to play with the computer after I put the kids to bed. I don't remember what I did on it - word processing? Maybe played something like Pong? In retrospect, I'm amazed I got to play with an Apple computer the very first year th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/483 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:16:23 One of my favorite quotes of all time is from there:

[div class="excerpt"]I grabbed my book and opened it up.
I wanted to smell it.
Heck, I wanted to kiss it.
Yes, kiss it.
That's right. I am a book kisser.[/div]
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/482 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:57:48 You don't have to pay shit for your public library card, if you in fact live in Lexington, MI, as your profile claims.

[div class="excerpt"]From the [a href="http://lexingtonlibrary.net/information.htm"]Moore Public Library[/a] Information Page:

Library Cards

[b]All residents of Michigan ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/481 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:28:59 No one else knows your trauma. You can't measure one person's painful experiences against another. Pain and trauma are subjective.

I learned this working in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. The people on the Mississippi Coast were traumatized by their entire coastline being scoured and devas... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/480 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:38:48 So let me get this straight:

According to the Obama administration, each state has [a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/new-york-gay-marriage-bil_n_884439.html#s298092&title=President_Barack_Obama"]the right to discriminate against GLBTs[/a] but individual states [b]don't[/b] have [a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/477 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:49:07 http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-rocked-multiple-tornadoes-including-city-springfield-possibly/story?id=13737522&fb_ref=at_xt%3D4de701cea326f21c_0&fb_source=profile_oneline

I grew up out there. My hometown of Monson, MA, sounds like downtown was very hard hit. Still haven't heard from my be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/476 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:53:54 Out of all the data they've analyzed thus far, one of the first pieces of data to emerge publicly is about OBL's porn? Why even release that info, but to further vilify the evilest of men? It does nothing to reassure or inform the American public about anything substantive. It's a diversion, salacio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/474 Sat, 14 May 2011 20:01:35 torture as defined by the Geneva Convention is state sanctioned, BP got more in tax breaks last year than the entire EPA was funded, union busting is more aggresive than it's been since the 1930's, women's reproductive rights are under legislative warfare in many states, some states are codifying ra... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/473 Sat, 14 May 2011 19:13:56 Love me some Grayson, but killing OBL doesn't equal ending any of our wars. I'll believe Democrats bring wars to end when they actually do it. Which they won't since most voted to start them in the first place. x( ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/471 Fri, 06 May 2011 00:32:34 Your library loves donations of books in [i]good condition[/i] that might appeal to a wide, contemporary public, or might be worth a lot of money (rare books). But we've had some humdinger donations at my branch. Once we got a copy of the 1947 Denver yellow pages, and often get complete sets of corp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/478 Wed, 04 May 2011 23:37:01 And we're going to war with Libya? It's like the ultimate in rating wars: GE/NBC vs. Libyan bankers/ABC. :puke:
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/470 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:55:16 The people most likely to be injured or killed in any tsunami/hurricane/typhoon are poor people, living in lowlands, in substandard housing. Japan's union membership has declined since the 1980s, from about 43% of workers to about 6.5%. There is a direct correlation between who suffers most and who ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/469 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:55:34 That guy in the yellow t-shirt has to be an agent provocateur, too. Who would give that man a bullhorn? Then the horse cops, who you never get a good look at, arrive on the scene immediately and the kid gets hustled outta there, peacefully melting into the crowd. Later he's being interviewed by a te... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/468 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:29:14 Workers of the World Unite!

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/jinuu/2011Feb26%20-%20WI-Union%20Supp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/467 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:48:15 Human rights are not always recognized. But that does not mean they aren't rights. Jefferson wrote about "certain inalienable rights" which formed the basis of the UN Declaration of Human Rights including the phrase "inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the huma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/466 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:55:48 [u]Fiction[/u]:
Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
A very short young adult novel about a teengirl who survives alone after her family dies in a September 11th-style disaster. Hoffman can be hit or miss to read but this book's writing is haunting and evocative yet very simply written.

Starting tomor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/465 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:23:23 [div class="excerpt"]"NO TO WAR"! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity. International law, honest dialogue, solidarity between States, the noble exercise of diplomacy: these are methods worthy of individuals and nations in resolving their differences. I say this as I thin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/intheflow/463 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:06:52