Good senators like Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin supported an amendment that would have at least guaranteed that the Patriot Act’s worst powers would only be used in cases of suspected terrorism or foreign spying, but their amendment was dismissed.
Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
Irregular Bumper Stickers- Deadliest Month Ever For Americans in AfghanistanThe Taliban are nasty, to be sure, but much of what makes the Taliban nasty are policies shared by the American-supported regime of Hamid Karzai. […]
- The Barton-BP 2012 Presidential Ticket Needs Your SlogansJoe Barton for President and BP for Vice President: it’s the perfect ticket for 2012. Joe Barton’s already bought by the oil companies, after all, so you know they’re close to begin with. Sticky and oily, greasy and filthy, the Barton-BP 2012 ticket would be a combination just like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, except carcinogenic. […]
- Joe Barton is a Tragedy of the First ProportionWhat do you say to a politician who rakes in more than 15% of his campaign cash from the energy industry? What do you say to that same politician after he identifies the “tragedy of the first proportion” of the BP oil spill as a government requirement that BP pay the costs of cleanup? You […]
- A Year After Designer Pay Cuts, No Slowdown at CafePressLast year, when the print-on-demand corporation CafePress introduced higher prices for buyers and lower compensation for graphic designers, many outraged designers for CafePress reacted by declaring their intention to leave CafePress behind and take their activity elsewhere. The call went out: Boycott CafePress! A year later, however, there’s no sign of decr […]
- Drawing Mohammed is a Crime at CafePress (but not here)To the right you see stickers we designed in response to calls by fundamentalist Muslims for a ban on images of Mohammed. The fundamentalists’ ban is not just intended for Muslims who agree with them, or not just for Muslims in general, or not just in countries under Muslim law; it is to be a […]
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