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Jon Stewart, Cynical Youth and Voting

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Politics

A Washington Post columnist posted an article last Friday covering a bit of research claiming that Jon Stewart’s popular comedy/news show on the Comedy Channel may cause people to stop voting. The report’s title was not given, nor was there any link to the results. So we have no way to read the report for […]

Tags: Links, quotes, voting, youth

Bigots and Marriage

Posted by Mark | Filed under Politics, Rants

I had been considering righting up my feeling regarding this insane proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to steal the rights of a subset of American citizens. However I was catching up on the news in the blogsphere when I stumbled upon Mr. Scalzi’s discussion of the subject: Why aren’t people asking the marriage bigots […]

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ORGANIC STANDARDS UNDER ATTACK!

Posted by Michelle | Filed under Life, Politics, Rants

The Organic Trade Association and food processors are asking Congress to change the Organic Foods and Production Act (OFPA). This could allow synthetic substances in products labeled “organic” and could weaken organic dairy standards. These amendments were introduced on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sept. 19, and may be voted on as early […]

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2005 Inaugural Celebration

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Politics

After doing a bit of house-cleaning1 and trying to fix a problem with Ariesna’s computer2 when I decided to take a break and read some blogs off my portal page. At AWelkin’s page, I ran across this link: 2005 Inaugural Celebration. Estimated cost of the 2005 Presidential Inauguration celebration: $40 million Amount currently pledged by […]

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