Category Archives: Liberty

Asshole of 2011

January 19, 2012 – 4:17 am

TIME magazine’s Person of the Year was the protestor. Governments in Egypt and Tunisia were ousted by people fed up with the status quo of the few rich ruling of the many poor. The western media attempted to portray this change as the seeds of democracy, but were surprised by faceless protestors in America assailing [...]

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Not So Fast II

January 19, 2012 – 1:26 am

Yesterday several major internet services blacked out their websites to protest two bills before Congress aimed at stopping online intellectual property theft. Freshman senator from Florida Marco Rubio backed off pushing forward the bills for vote in face of such intense opposition from Wikipedia and blog service WordPress. Hollywood executives backed by former Senate hack [...]

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Not So Fast

January 18, 2012 – 11:16 am

Hundreds of demonstrators for the OCCUPY CONGRESS gathered in Washington this week to protest the greed of Congress in sucking up the the corporate interests of America and the world. The organizers had been expected thousands to show up in force, but winter campaigns are renown for desertions from the ranks; see Valley Forge and [...]

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The 10 Unanswerables

August 4, 2011 – 1:55 am

According to the Old Testament Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets inscribed with 17 Commandments. the ex-son of the pharoah was the only man in the crowd that could read, except Yahweh didn’t write in Egyptian. At least according to the Charlton Heston version of THE TEN COMMANDMENT. There could have been [...]

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GAY BOY by Peter Nolan Smith

July 13, 2011 – 8:23 pm

My family moved from Falmouth Foresides, Maine in the summer of 1960. For lunch my father stopped at rest area next the New Hampshire tollbooth. After finishing my Italian sandwich I asked for permission to go to the bathroom. My father was busy speaking with my mother about schooling for their five children. My father [...]

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