Voting While Homeless
Obviously the normal tools will not work.Not very encouraging is it?
View ArticleThat doesn't look like lunging to me
To hear prosecutors tell it, Darrien Hunt lunged at officers with a "samurai-type sword" before he was killed. Yes the police testilied that they feared for their safety and that Darrien Hunt was an...
View ArticleFEMA goes after the disabled for "over-payments"
Residents of the Belle Harbor Manor assisted living center in the city’s Rockaway Peninsula spent four months after Superstorm Sandy moving through a series of emergency shelters due to flooding at...
View ArticleA New Standard of Low has Been Reached by Miami Dade P.D.-Which P.D. will be...
For 20 minutes Burke estimates the officers drove him around before finally releasing him in a dark and desolate section of South Dade nearly a mile from his home. “They put me off somewhere in...
View ArticleThe Day Has Come: OpKKK
It is obvious to all by now, excepting the deliriously obtuse, that our Federal Government has decided that doing things like bringing out the National Guard so children can go to school without being...
View Article“Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” RIP Leslie Feinberg
In my early adulthood I was told often to read hir book. Stone Butch BluesI didn't get to it until I was well into my thirties. I had always been repelled by the title. I am far from stone but...
View ArticleThe People have Spoken
"The time will come when that sheet will be tipped off. If the federal government doesn't take it off, we'll take it off." And that is exactly what Anonymous did. Not the NSA with their budget in the...
View ArticleBreaking: Another Chemical Explosion Firefighters Injured
Date / Time Message City State Zipcode Type 11-18-2014 12:24 EST Several FF's have been injured working a chemical explosion call. NFI ATT Santa Paula CA 93060...
View ArticleA New Word
I ran across a new word today.It isn't something that occurs as often as it did as when I was a child. Then I was surrounded by a polyglot of vowels and consonants arranged in manners I had never...
View ArticleH8360 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 3, 2014
NO INDICTMENT IN ERIC GARNER’S CHOKE HOLD CASEThe SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. BRAT). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. JOHNSON)...
View ArticleTell Me About the First Christmas You Worked
In this day and age when more than half the American population is under economic distress the concept of working Christmas isn't even an option. Most employers inform them verbally that they will be...
View ArticleI don't like music remakes, but...
As a child there was a movie most of us are familiar with by the name of Grease. A musical, which were usually forbidden to me lest I catch the Ghey inherent in musicals, about high school love. I...
View ArticleBoycott Jamaica
TRIGGER WARNING after the fold.Tourism is tied with remittances as Jamaica's top source of revenue. The tourism industry earns over 50 percent of the country's total foreign exchange earnings and...
View ArticleBREAKING: Houston Ship Collision and Chemical Spill
This is breaking so I will add as information flows in.
View ArticleDespicable Racist City Manager Resigns
FERGUSON, Mo. — The city manager of Ferguson, Mo., who a Department of Justice report said was responsible for overseeing the city’s operations as it engaged in racially biased and unconstitutional...
View ArticleMy Statement re: HB2307 Conversion Therapy Ban in the State of Oregon
I am a mess at the moment, but this is vitally important to me. I have been getting very little sleep, and too much exercise and rain while without shelter. I'm in Salem today after biking down...
View ArticleWet, cold, and tired-Thank You
I'm in desperate need of a bed or at least a roof and warmth, a shower and to wash my clothes.I can handle these issues as they occur only without complications. In my case the complication is a foot...
View ArticleFYI
Commonmass just told me someone is using my gmail account and telling him my main focus is my transtion. Since most of my transtion occured in 2000 when I changed my name on my ID, those of you that...
View ArticleSelf Publishing 101: Kindle Direct Publishing
Hi all- this is akadjian. Horace Boothroyd III hopped on our thread last week and mentioned his Kindle chapbook on Kurt Vonnegut's final work: Chap Book Review: Armageddon in Retropect. I thought it...
View ArticleI Haz Book-Let Me Write More
I wrote a chapbook called Chap Book Review: Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut. This is a review of Vonnegut's unpublished works published posthumously.Sales have been abysmal. I need to raise...
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