An Open Letter To Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY28)

Dear Ms. Slaughter, I don't live in your district but I used to.  I have met you on a couple of different occasions and frankly I always left those meetings felt like someone had just talked to me, not with...

Richard Stallman: Open Sores' Arrogant Sexist? [UPDATED x3]

UPDATE: 8-20-09: i wish to retract my unduly harsh use of the term "sociopath" in describing Richard Stallman. my sincere apologies. there are some excellent arguments, very well worded in a comment posting below...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

Coplay, PA: Land of Intolerant, Archaic, Toxic Madness

This is a very reactionary "opinion" piece about Coplay PA, where i've been abused for over four years. i feel it is important for others to know that this is an UNSAFE and TOXIC community for those with Autism/Asperger's Syndrome. It also includes references to abusive...

Parents and Doctors Create Monsters Out of Autistics

i am calling for the immediate public shaming of, and lawsuits for abuse, against Ann Bauer, the mother of Andrew Bauer, a person who started life as autistic and has since been destroyed and changed into a violent...

GUTTED by flickr

What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...

The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken

"Henry Paulson's $700 billion plan to save the world is dead or dying, but the bailout was not killed by his arrogance or his grossly misleading claims about what the public's money would buy. The plan collapsed because it didn't work. The Treasury secretary has launched a PR...

Boy Suffocated During School Punishment

i don't normally post articles from elsewhere but this was too much for me NOT to post it. It might be old news to you, but this belongs in my list of contributions one way or another because this is a crime...

flickr Staff Heather Champ: Bad Sport - PT I

i received feedback on my anti-flickr postings (on my blog) from some other users. One caught my attention specifically because of pointing the finger at the thread and account deletion god-complex named Heather...

Kids are as narcissistic today as they were in the '70s

The kids are still alright with themselves.A study comparing young egos past and present concludes today's youth are not as self-absorbed as we might think.  I wonder though, how do you scientifically test...

flickr: i'm Still Calling it Censorship

flicked off by flickr staff ""Your account has been reviewed as unsafe and NIPSA by Flickr staff."" Tell me what's unsafe about it. The account they deleted was reviewed by flicker staff and marked as safe about a couple of days before they deleted...

Professional Ignorance - Doctors Refuse Belief in AS

In my travels around the so-called professional world, i have encountered a staggering amount of ignorance. Most shocking is how much of it is willful. Like the classic cliche of the ostrich sticking its head in the sand to hide from what it does not want to deal with, there...

Yahoo's "Values" [UPDATED]

Yahoo has a page that covers everything, except contacting them or seeking managerial responsibility.  Yet, this faceless corporate entity has the audacity to pretend to be everything they stand...

Malaysian FM should learn more diplomatic ethics : legislator says

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A legislator from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI P), Andreas H Pareira, said Malaysia`s foreign minister should learn more about diplomatic ethics so that he would...

Do hunky men make women smarter?

"It's not just the muscles, or the confidence, or the chiselled cheekbones. Nor is it the flashy sportscar or the charming arrogance. No, the charms of the alpha male -- the guy who stands out above lesser mortals...

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