Category Archives: Civil Rights & Feminism

Privacy is not Secrecy

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Medley

For years, I have been wanting to write a blog post or a paper or a rant or something about how privacy is not the same as secrecy. And how one aspect that’s almost always missing when it comes to … Continue reading →

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Fugitive

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Medley

Polanski – I have no sympathy. Let the wheels of justice grind on. Continue reading →

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A Few Links

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Medley

A few links, since I can’t seem to properly blog at all anymore. Scott Rosenberg’s book on the history of blogging, Say Everything, will be released shortly. A couple of chapters are already available online. I read the chapter on … Continue reading →

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Much Brokenness – Tasers and Village Smears

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Medley

Digby has been on the case of taser abuse for months and what it says about not only the criminal justice system and law enforcement but our society as a whole. In her latest post on the subject: It’s not … Continue reading →

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Sensing Some Similarity

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Medley

I have not delved very deeply into the explosion in the Rails community that apparently began with some ill-considered slides in a presentation. Mike G. is on top of it and decided there was too much nonsense and denial and … Continue reading →

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State Secrets

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Medley

For awhile there all I did was scoff at the punditocracy during the first few weeks of the Obama Administration when they tried to assert that he and Bush were “just the same”. Well, let’s be real, I scoff at … Continue reading →

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Progress

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Medley

Image via Wikipedia Hey, it’s been a good few days. The State Supreme Court in Iowa struck down a law prohibiting people from marrying who they want. And today the legislature in Vermont legalized gay marriage when it overrode the … Continue reading →

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Some Quick Hits

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Medley

A few quick hits: A few weeks ago a buddy of mine asked me if I would contribute to a fledgling ‘mom blog’ she and a friend were creating. I said sure – how hard is it to do one … Continue reading →

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Meta – Revised Medley

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Medley

Well, we seem to have a working weblog here again. Yay! A couple of things to note while I’m still getting things squared away: In addition to the random collection of Flickr pics (which I had on the old version … Continue reading →

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Tabbity-Tab-Tab.

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Medley

And still mooore tabs – this is an endless battle. Chris Clarke is blogging again. In this entry he writes about Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Obama, sexism, racism, the environment and such-like. But the primary tenet of feminism is that … Continue reading →

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