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Notable Posts
Progressive thinking: Change the marijuana laws.
Quiet Riot
Why a consitutional amendment banning gay marriage is wrong.
Label Conscious
An interesting billboard has me name dropping all day.
Sobering Night
I learn a very good friend of mine is comatose and will be allowed to die in the morning.
Shock & Awe
The conflicts of the Vatican and its positions.
GASP
Generally Accepted Sexual Practices
Sharing the Love
Jigsha Desai, newly minted U.S. citizen, offers her musings, experiences and work, from Knoxville, Tenn.!
Former AIA Bookstore co-worker Phil has a plethora of odd and cool things on his blog.
Former TN coworker Neal, writes, plays and sings in The Snow Fairies.
Sex Ed with some bite, thanks to Dan Savage and his Savage Love column
Links
Or if you would rather me just cut the bullshit:
Support the following because I have money and/or time invested in them, I strongly dislike their competition, or they're my friends.
Because
we all need bias a
little to the left sometimes. This online news service dares to ask and
answer the questions the established media can't or won't. But that's
the point of alternative media: watchdog the watchdog.
For
being a government
monopoly
global news service, the BBC gets it right, even when the "free" U.S.
media doesn't.
The channel claims to be
the most
trusted name in news. I go along with it simply because a) It's not Fox
News; and b) It's not Microsoft tainted (i.e. MSNBC).
The
Register offers
a sometimes sarcastic, other times witty news service covering all that
is geekdom: computers, the Internet and everything else
technology-related.
Formed in 1992, Project Vote Smart, provides information such as voting dates, ballot issues and candidates for the national and state levels of government. Included is a breakdown of the how the election process works in this country. Sadly, something this country desperately needs.
The Center for Public Integrity is also a nonprofit organization, with its basis in journalism. Get in the know about all aspects of what's happening on the Hill.
Citizens Against Government Waste is also a nonprofit organization with a goal of bringing government waste to the taxpayers' attention for the purpose of fixing the blatant overspending.
Probably
the most activist-like I've
been is on the environment. I already write to my Senators and
Representative regularly, but Environmental Defense,
the politically driven "tree-hugging" organization, keeps me current on
environmental bills in Congress, allowing my letter-writing to be all
the more frequent.
So
the group can be a little bit militant, but, hey, so are the
corporations. You can do a lot with them and not fund any of the crazy
stuff. Check 'em out. They'll keep you current on environmental issues
and happenings from around the globe.
This
group is probably
one of the more politically prominent of the environmentalists. Most
any article dealing with environmental legislation has a quote from
someone in this organization. Maybe you can find a chapter in your city
or state and get active.
MoveOn.org is rather left-of-center. You may have heard of them after CBS refused to run their "Child's Pay" ad during the Super Bowl in '04. The ad criticizes the growing deficit under "President" George W. Bush. Need I say more?
They were also called extremist by political ads the greater Philadelphia area media market. I don't know why not being Republican is now "extremist" and/or immoral...
