So Tasha Yar is to-day’s featured article on the front page of Wikipedia (\u003Chttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>) which is a nice bit of recognition, even if it is about 1 / 1,450,200,012th of the recognition that she deserves.

Dude, seriously? Is this an entry in a contest for “The Utter Bankruptcy of Liberal Reformism, in Ten Words or Fewer?” “Amend ‘Anti-Protest Bill’ to Ensure First Amendment Protections” http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/963?share_ref=mPs4hhq2msc

To-day @ ALL Distro Anarchist Classics chapbook # 31. “Songs of Sorrow and Struggle,” a collection of 34 radical poems published between 1892 and 1902, by Miriam Daniell. http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/anarchist-classics-series/miriam-daniell-songs-of-struggle-and-sorrow/ “This chapbook is a new selection of poetry by Miriam Daniell, edited by the ALL Distro. The 34 poems in this collection were gathered from two main sources: her prolific contrib­utions to Benjamin Tucker’s individualist paper Liberty during 1892; and a series of several more poems prepared for posthumous publication by her friends, which appeared in the Chicago anarchist paper Free Society during 1902. The Anarchist press of the late 19th and early 20th centuries published much more than ideological tracts, polemics and political analysis. In their newspapers, pamphlets, union halls, radical community schools and gatherings, Anarch­ists and labor radicals alike worked to build a broad, vibrant and lovingly crafted culture of creative solidarity and resistance. Theoreticians, workers, story­tellers and dreamers made car­toons, posters, poems, stories and labor songs. One of the most restless and, for a few years, one of the most prolific of these authors was Miriam Daniell (1860–1894), a strike leader in England and a prolific poet, writer and critic in the u.s. radical press.”

Of course it is not independent. Jesus. It is a panel run by the White House. You may as well run a story with the headline “Critics Unsure of the Independence of Medical Research on Tobacco Sponsored by Philip-Morris.”

For years, the United States government denied consenting patients the opportunity to try experimental AIDS treatment of their own free will; instead, they inflicted experimental AIDS treatments on foster children without even the most minimal protections for the informed consent of their human subjects. For science, you know.

So seriously y’all, there is no good reason for an httpd error log to be set with permissions so that only root can read it, if I’m able to read and write the files for the virtual host that generates that error log. If you trust me enough to give me permission to literally rewrite your entire website, it’s a bit silly to balk at giving me read-only access to the error log that that website is generating.

Pro-Choice Auburn local organizing meet-up this weekend! If you’re pro-choice & in Auburn & would like to see a more Pro-Choice Auburn, come on down. We’ll be talking about opportunities for local activism and move forward on efforts to organize an abortion fund. (\u003Chttp://www.fundabortionnow.org/> for more on what they are, what they do, and why they’re important.) There’s food, there’s talk, there’s community activism.

Electoral politics destroy social and political movements. http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/02/democrats_deserted_the_anti_war_movement.html

FWIW, it’s one thing not to hear the news, or to slip up once or twice when you’ve become used to using an old name. Nobody expects you to be perfect or omniscient. But there’s a difference between slipping up and belligerently trashing somebody’s stated preferences. if you’re the person who goes on for years still calling someone “Cassius Clay” instead of “Muhammad Ali,” even though you know he said that’s not his name anymore, then you’re the asshole here. It doesn’t matter whether or not you understand why he changed it. It doesn’t matter whether or not you sympathize with his reasons. It doesn’t matter if you think he believes something that’s weird or even crazy. You’re still the asshole here.

By the by, J. Neil Schulman acted like a transphobic pig, and also a huge asshole in general, and he ought to feel embarrassed about both his statements and his conduct at an otherwise wonderful Libertopia.