Some may remember the moment that Gary Coleman declared he’d run for Governor of California as the moment that democracy in the state jumped the shark. How ridiculous, they declared! What a lack of class! These declarations missed the point: in opening up the California gubernatorial process to all comers a few [...]
Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
Irregular Bumper Stickers- CafePress Loses Longtime Lead After Stiffing Customers and DesignersWhen print-on-demand sticker and shirt shipper CafePress raised prices for customers and cut pay to designers starting June 1, 2009, the manner in which they spoke to designers set the tone for all that would follow. Over the phone, CafePress representatives insisted that their decision to cut pay to designers and raise prices for [...] […]
- Gingrich-Ensign 2012: Bible-Thumping Wife-Swappers for AmericaNewt Gingrich for President and John Ensign for Vice President in 2012: it’s the choice ticket, a perfect representation of Republican moral values in statement and in practice. There’s synergy in the pairing: I mean, they could cheat on each other’s wives with each other’s wives! It would save them time that they could otherwise [...] […]
- Equality Is Not A FavorBarack Obama is an idiot if he thinks that gay and lesbian federal employees are going to love and respect him for suggesting that they ought to be grateful for getting a fraction of the legal status that heterosexual Americans take for granted. […]
- CafePress Goofs With Squidoo Module InterfaceThere are a lot of Squidoo pages that had been directing traffic to CafePress, but aren't any more. It's likely that many CafePress shopkeepers who had maintained CafePress modules at Squidoo pages are feeling too disenchanted with CafePress to repair these modules, and may work with plain text modules linking to alternative print on demand compan […]
- Obama Goes To Court To Defend Anti-Gay LawI cannot conclude that Obama's arguments in this case are an anomaly. I remember Obama's embrace of anti-gay bigot Donnie McClurkin. I remember Rick Warren. Obama has a long history now of embracing those who hate gays and lesbians. […]
- CafePress Loses Longtime Lead After Stiffing Customers and Designers