Blogcoven

Back once again with the renegade master.

Category: Soapbox

Becoming American

by dixie

While I’ve always had an opinion on what makes an “American” (in the “citizen of the United States” sense, not the “living on one of the American continents” sense), it’s only in the past ten years that opinion has really crystallized into something I will pick fights over. Becoming a citizen is a pretty big [...]

I Changed My Mind When I Saw This

by xaosseed

Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world on TED.com.

Will you be my nanny?

by dixie

Unrelated to any of this…gratz to everyone who voted today. Thank you for exercising your franchise; hopefully I’ll be right behind you in a few years. I know abortion is a bit of a taboo topic in some places, so I’ll hide this behind a cut (I really have been reading too much LJ, haven’t [...]

Time to Vote

by uber

The General Election is coming. If you haven’t alreay Rocked the vote, you may wish to track your candidate. In order to vote, you have to be registered you can check the register of electors here, so long as you know which constituency is your home. There are six main parties running, and a whole [...]

Blaming Toasters For Toast

by xaosseed

I said something about Marketing being the spurting root of evil in the middle of another rant and Ubers comment stuck in my head – and so off I went to find out wtf.