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Category: Politics
Children Trafficked at Super Bowl
Moron of the Week #2: Judge Roger Vinson
What’s that sound? Its just me smashing my head into my desk. Over and over.
Update #2: Charity: water Birthday
With less than a week until my 25th birthday, there’s still time to donate to my charity: water birthday campaign!
On Gawker, AppleInsider and Tim Cook
Gawker has published a lengthy look at Apple’s COO titled “Meet Apple’s New Boss, The Most Powerful Gay Man in Silicon Valley.”
Apple Insider linked to it yesterday, quoting large chunks of the original story.
Personally, I don’t give a shit about Tim Cook’s orientation. What I do care about is privacy and respect. This time around, the Internet seems to be okay not prying too far into Steve Jobs’ health, so Tim Cook seems to be the target of choice.
On Managing Nerds #pastblast
Rands recent post on managing nerds is great. I’ve got a copy printed in the hanging folder where I keep my staff’s HR paperwork.
‘Something That Really Shocked Me’
My brother’s non-profit, Operation Broken Silence was in The Commercial Appeal this weekend:
With a study of a popular website offering adult advertisements for “escorts,” a young human rights group in Memphis is calling for action to reduce human trafficking in the local sex industry.
The group, Operation Broken Silence, this week released a report that studied Memphis-area female escort listings for the final three months of 2010 placed on the classified advertisement website backpage.com.
On a Christian Nation
Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that DOESN’T help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition—and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
I would argue that we aren’t a Christian nation, and that the Church does a really terrible job most of the time when it comes to serving the poor. One thing that makes my job at the Salvation Army so attractive to me is the group’s passion in this very area.
The Open Internet
Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending on what you use.
This is a great way to explain net neutrality to the non-geeky people in your life.
[via Ian P. Hines]
Update #1: Charity: water Birthday
A week ago, I announced I am donating my 25th birthday to Charity: water.
I’m happy to announce that $100 has been donated to the cause — 25% of my modest $400 goal. That is enough for 5 people to have clean water. Amazing.
I’d love to meet the pledge before my birthday on January 28, so please consider donating to a great cause.
I’ll update the total weekly, so don’t worry, I’ll bug you at least two more times.
‘But not Everyone is Sane’
Gruber, on Sarah Palin and crosshairs:
She’s not responsible for what happened. Jared Loughner is. But she is responsible for her own words and campaign material.
Of the 20 congresspeople Palin targeted with those ads, 18 of them lost their seats (including three who retired and were succeeded by Palin’s endorsed candidate). Only two of Palin’s 20 “targets” were reelected, and one of them was shot through the brain at point-blank range yesterday.