I finally got my first email from Church=State! I first heard about this campaign back when The Denver Egotist caught wind of the bilboards down in the springs. I thought it was utterly sarcastic, to be honest. The wording on the “web site” is so terrifying, that I couldn’t imagine real people saying such things. I had to sign up to find out what the hell is going on. Obviously, this is not a really smart, progressive action group gag. This is for real. By the looks of the email, my soul is at stake because I live in a country that has a representative government. Hang on tight, Colorado. I’ll throw myself on the train tracks and keep receiving these emails for now (I guess I have to since they don’t comply with CANSPAM requirements for an unsubscribe link). I might find out that my commie-, homo-, “human rights”-loving lifestyle is against the 1st Amendment. Or something.

I finally got my first email from Church=State! I first heard about this campaign back when The Denver Egotist caught wind of the bilboards down in the springs. I thought it was utterly sarcastic, to be honest. The wording on the “web site” is so terrifying, that I couldn’t imagine real people saying such things. I had to sign up to find out what the hell is going on.

Obviously, this is not a really smart, progressive action group gag. This is for real. By the looks of the email, my soul is at stake because I live in a country that has a representative government.

Hang on tight, Colorado. I’ll throw myself on the train tracks and keep receiving these emails for now (I guess I have to since they don’t comply with CANSPAM requirements for an unsubscribe link). I might find out that my commie-, homo-, “human rights”-loving lifestyle is against the 1st Amendment. Or something.

Comments | posted 17 hours ago
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Comments | posted 5 days ago
When you watch this video, change the CC to “interpret audio”. Magic.

When you watch this video, change the CC to “interpret audio”. Magic.

Comments | posted 5 days ago

I guess I don't read enough internet comments.

Is this pretty common? (You can click through to observe these very real comments in the wild)

Comments | posted 6 days ago

When President Bush two years ago failed to name members to a federal board to monitor the protection of civil liberties, Democrats and activist groups were duly outraged, seeing it as one more example of his administration’s indifference to the subject.

But more than a year into a new presidency, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—created by Congress in 2007—remains as much a cipher under Barack Obama as it was under George W. Bush. The White House has yet to nominate a single person to sit on the five-person board. It has no members, no staff and no office.

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Isikoff, “Civil Liberties Board Goes Vacant under Obama” (via newsweek)

We should be pretty outraged about this.

Comments | posted 1 week ago

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