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    Real America II

    by  • November 7, 2008 • Personal, Politics

    Clint Ecker shared this awesome photo he came across on Flickr this week: The awesome thing about kids: they don’t give a damn about skin color until some jerk teaches them to. Now if we can just get people to stop doing that… ;)

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    Real America

    by  • November 6, 2008 • Personal, Politics

    During the recently-concluded Presidential campaign, quite a bit was said by one side about “real” America. That’s why I found this article I came across today with letters from fourth graders so interesting. This was my favorite part: Also I’m African American too and I might be just like you. When you get to the [...]

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    Early voting in Akron!

    by  • October 30, 2008 • Personal, Politics

    This says it all for me, really. It was absolutely packed at the early voting location.  A good 200 or so people there — lots of younger people — and it took around 45 minutes for them to work through the list.  All told, took me around an hour to get my ballot, fill it [...]

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    A bad idea whose time should never have come…

    by  • December 19, 2005 • Politics, Technology

    The “analog hole” boogeyman has arisen, zombie-like, to feast upon the brains of our legislators in Washington — I suspect it wasn’t a particularly satisfying meal. Ars Technica is reporting that HR 4569, the “Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005″ (DTCSA) was introduced into the US House Judiciary Subcommittee last week. I won’t get [...]

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    Reforming Ohio

    by  • October 20, 2005 • Politics

    I’ve been reading a little bit about the effort to reform politics in Ohio and I must say, I think these are terrific ideas. I mention this here because I know that there are several people reading this who also live in Ohio, and I want to encourage you all to go vote “Yes” on [...]

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