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Miami Heat put their hoods up. Will you? #Justice4Trayvon #MillionHoodies

Published on 2012-03-23 15:13:10

Trayvon is a 17-year-old black boy. He likes Miami Heat, Blake Griffin, The Boondocks, Tu Pac, Friday, football and going fishing. He left his house, one day, in a predominately white gated community in Florida, to pick up a bag of Skittles for his baby brother. On the way home, he was shot and killed by a white man. > read more

Dear People Screaming for @RushLimbaugh’s Freedom of Speech:

Published on 2012-03-22 13:30:58

You're right. Rush Limbaugh absolutely has the right to say whatever disgusting thought that comes into his ignorant, pea-sized brain, thanks to the First Amendment I utilize every day. But guess what. So. Do. I. > read more

Can We Frack Safely?

Published on 2012-02-17 14:40:01

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TheBloggess on Kindness

Published on 2012-02-14 09:00:49

“Think of kindness as your Kevlar, and karma as your shield. And patience is your battle helmet. And your pants are made of flame retardant love.” ~TheBloggess Mostly because it needed to be immortalized somewhere besides TheStir, even if it is just on this itty bitty blog of confusion. Can you imagine what the world [...] > read more

So that really happened… -or- Why Adam Baldwin Blocked Us

Published on 2012-02-04 21:56:19

I wouldn't exactly call peeing on dead bodies "maintaining professionalism." Matter of fact, I'd venture to say peeing on dead bodies is decidedly unprofessional. And dishonorable. Not to mention inflammatory and embarrassing. I am humiliated by the actions of those Marines. > read more

Installing ZoneMinder on Centos 6

Published on 2012-02-02 15:27:20

ZoneMinder is arguably one of the best video camera applications available for Linux, especially if you need to capture images and/or video from multiple cameras, both remote and local. It offers a huge set of features that just aren't available in other pieces of free software. Getting it to compile on Centos 6 (64bit), however, is a bit of a chore. > read more

THIS is What I Deal With!

Published on 2012-01-18 08:01:01

So New Dad goes through the line, gets all his stuff on the conveyor belt, rings out and pays. He heads back out to the car, unloads the cart and picks Baby up to put him in the car, and there, staring at him from the place Baby's seat just was is a bottle of mouthwash. > read more

Senate Wants the Military to Lock You Up Without Trial

Published on 2011-12-14 17:07:25

Even WIRED magazine was outraged at this bill, reporting: Senate Wants the Military to Lock You Up Without Trial …the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University [...] > read more

Quick and Dirty Tips from an AD(H)D Web Surfer – 4

Published on 2011-12-05 08:50:06

If your website looks like the image in this post, I will never, EVER visit it again. I mean, you can't even see anything. Pointless. > read more

Quick and Dirty Tips from an AD(H)D Web Surfer – 3

Published on 2011-11-13 22:10:40

Sites without a +1 button make me sad. I know it’s new. I know Google+ isn’t as big as Facebook. But honestly? I like it better. But the +1 button isn’t just for social networking, y’all. It’s for relevancy in a Google search, too! Gimme one and I’ll click it. YOU’RE WELCOME! > read more

What’s this bullshit? White people don’t have to deal with racism? Really?

Published on 2011-10-23 20:13:55

The A#8 saga continues. So remember good ol’ A#8 from the post about why people are killing each other in Schenectady? Let me get you up to speed. The guy spent a night screaming to a mutual friend of ours that the reason we don’t get along is because “if I shit too loud she [...] > read more

Colbert on Jesus

Published on 2011-09-30 23:36:10

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No! I have no idea why people are killing each other in Schenectady!

Published on 2011-07-03 19:13:41

And this is how violence in the ghetto starts. Person A harasses Person B for some perceived offense that may or may not be real. Person B tries to get law enforcement to do something about Person A but law enforcement refuses. Then finally, at his w > read more

I am not politically correct. Sorry for the confusion.

Published on 2011-06-25 16:21:18

So often, growing up, I heard that it's wrong to see color. That classifying people is dangerous. That it not only hurts our country's ability to be a community, but it hurt's the feelings of the people who are being classified. And I always thought, > read more

Did you hear?

Published on 2011-06-25 12:19:32

We’re super stoked to announce that our very own home state has legalized same-sex marriage! Last night, the New York State Senate approved Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bill, and Cuomo signed it into law just before midnight. Provided nothing > read more

My Husband: Solving Violent Crime with Logic

Published on 2011-06-14 08:01:32

“You know, I just don’t see the point,” he said. I looked up from what I was doing to see what he was talking about. As usual, he’d read some news story while I was feeding the animals and getting his breakfast ready. “W > read more

Dear New York State Child Support:

Published on 2011-06-13 08:13:27

As much as I loathe my husband’s ex for living off welfare and his support money instead of getting off her fat, lazy ass and getting a job, it absolutely disgusts me that she’s just been evicted because it takes you two business weeks to > read more

Quick and Dirty Tips from an AD(H)D Web Surfer – 1

Published on 2011-05-12 08:57:26

If your ads take so long to load that I can’t even look at what I went to your site for, I won’t be back. I also won’t be recommending your site to anyone else. > read more

Anonymous – It’s not what you think.

Published on 2011-02-26 14:06:30

I’ve been sitting back and watching everything going on in the world. All the protests and fighting for rights and freedom. This is a major thing that’s happening in our life time, and we need to pay attention. Once the smoke clears, the > read more

Wow… The media really got to you, huh?

Published on 2011-01-19 23:27:47

Lately, I’ve been making an attempt not to talk to our cabbies as we ride from one place to the other. This is made easier by the fact that the cab companies are hiring older men who can’t hear, so the CB’s turned up all the way, an > read more

A Christmas Miracle -or- Why We Love @TheBloggess and Her Readers

Published on 2010-12-24 12:44:01

So, Jenny (TheBloggess) offered a $30 gift card to the first twenty people to comment on her post to let her know they need a little extra help this Christmas. And... You know what? I'm gonna let her tell it. She did it best. > read more

Today, we made history.

Published on 2010-12-22 13:00:20

To quote President Obama, “I couldn’t be prouder.” > read more

So, why is WikiLeaks a good thing again?

Published on 2010-12-07 18:01:58

WikiLeaks revealed how the CIA kidnapped an innocent German and tortured him for months, then attempted to stop Germany from arresting its operatives. > read more

Melen’s Thanksgiving Thoughts

Published on 2010-11-25 09:46:42

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Even someone like me, who can be pessimistic at the best of times (tho I still claim I’m being realistic), has many things to be thankful for. A few weeks ago we decided to get a pet. We were at > read more

Sometimes, there really is a right and wrong way.

Published on 2010-11-23 09:26:44

Yeah... I get it. They're humiliating Joe Citizen, yada, yada. And revenge is sweet, and let's see how they like it, and all that jazz. But two wrongs don't make a right. And it's not all TSA workers. These are just the ones we're hearing about. > read more

Video: TSA Strip Searches Young Boy for No Apparent Reason

Published on 2010-11-22 10:38:32

Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arm > read more

National Opt-Out Day: Boycotting the Body Scan in the Name of Privacy

Published on 2010-11-17 13:00:23

The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change. We have a right to privacy and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent. This day is needed because many people do no > read more

Dear Crackhead: Edition 5

Published on 2010-10-10 14:50:46

Dear Crackhead, Shortly after you moved in, I began regularly burning incense in our hallway.  It smells like ass in there when I don’t.  Sweaty, dirty, rotten ass, and tires, and cherry cough syrup. People keep asking me if I’m 420-fri > read more

Dear Crackhead: Edition 4

Published on 2010-10-08 15:19:09

Dear Crackhead, Stop calling my husband “Sir”.  Everyone who hears it, including him, knows you only do it because “Look, Rayne! I got all dolled up for you!” didn’t work out so well for you. Signed, Now, I ain’t > read more