February 2012
3 posts
Republicans have staked out a position that... →
wilwheaton:
The lies go beyond instantly dismissible claims like President Obama being the “food stamp president” (why you have to go back one whole administration to discover that more people joined the food stamp ranks under Bush than Obama, but then the Republicans don’t seem to remember Bush in any case). The blatant lies extend through every aspect of the Republican platform, such as it is....
parislemon: To Catch A Hypocrite →
parislemon:
Yesterday, Jason Kincaid posted damning evidence of VEVO, the online music video entity jointly owned by a few major record labels, committing piracy at their boozy event at Sundance this year.
Watch the video, then read Jason’s full story. It’s worth it.
Today, VEVO’s CEO has responded….
January 2012
7 posts
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Being at the bottom of the heap in terms of social... →
wilwheaton:
A foundation in Germany has analyzed the social justice records of all 31 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranking each nation in such categories as health care, income inequality, pre-school education, and child poverty. The overall performance by the United States — which boasts of being an egalitarian society — outranks only Greece,...
No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to... →
wilwheaton:
After the October 25th raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza / Oscar Grant Park, and before the November 2nd General Strike, a campaign by all the powers that be in Oakland had started to discredit anyone and anything associated with Occupy Oakland. And so, to no one’s particular surprise, in the emails poured over by KTVU reporters was found a note that might as well have caused the...
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...
December 2011
2 posts
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November 2011
17 posts
Woman given 3-year prison term for food stamp... →
wilwheaton:
A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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[Judge] Wingate bypassed sentencing McLemore under federal guidelines that suggested she receive two to eight months in prison and would have made her eligible for probation. He instead...
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Militarization of Campus... →
rachelandthecity:
Militarization of Campus Police
leftcoastjane:
This UC Davis prof,
Bob Ostertag
Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis
responds to the violence on the Davis campus, I saw it via OhPauline and…
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The Antiwar Comic: In Response to Frank Miller →
wilwheaton:
Co-signed.
(via Reddit)
“I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
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September 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
WatchThis is just amazing to watch. Mr. Jones has several more videos on his Vimeo channel and it makes me wish I’d learned to be more proficient at vector art.
drawnblog:
Glennz Illustration Process - Defective (by Glenn Jones)
Watch Glenn Jones create one of his clever t-shirt designs in Illustrator. Am I seeing this correctly, and there’s no under-drawing being traced? Those are some...
June 2011
15 posts
May 2011
2 posts
Watchdrawnblog:
Fall Guy (2011) (by Patrick McHale)
Awesome
