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Why wouldn’t the guy say, ‘It’s never easy to lay off people’? Instead they sound like they’re talking about saving expenses as if they’re saving on the light bill.
Jim Ylisela on a recent Citigroup press release. Click through, it’s incredibly awful.

(Source: prdaily.com)

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I learned about feminism not through my parents or books, but through…meetings. In my day-to-day life, I’m a part of meetings where people will look at me and talk at me solely because I’m a man, rather than focusing their attention on a more relevant or more senior woman. This behavior is part of a far larger, still-powerful current of sexism in this country, and it bothers me. It bothers me because we all suffer when we’re all not equal. It bothers me because it creates a culture where women aren’t even just unequal, they’re treated as lesser, their humanity is taken away.

Over the past year (and change), conservatives have stepped up their attacks on what we had, before, considered accepted rights of women. Afraid of the corrupting influences of sex and freedom, they’ve increasingly openly blamed women for being raped, attempted to take away contraceptives, and pushed to curtail basic reproductive rights.

I vote because every election, the very humanity of our daughters, our sisters, and our mothers is at stake.

John Brougher
Washington, DC  (via whyivote)
(Reblogged from whyivote)
If you can, go vote. If not, make some calls. Elections don’t come often, and they demand our participation. See you on the flip side. barackobama: Fido’s going to keep staring at you in silent judgment until you go vote. View high resolution

If you can, go vote. If not, make some calls. Elections don’t come often, and they demand our participation.

See you on the flip side.

barackobama:

Fido’s going to keep staring at you in silent judgment until you go vote.
(Reblogged from barackobama)

Now that’s what I call customer service.

USA! USA! USA!

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On a daily basis, women get groped, grabbed, followed, harassed and assaulted while in public. And many of us don’t think it’s a crime. We don’t call police. We just take it.
The Washington Post’s Petula Dvorak, writing about the recent controversy over Liz Gorman’s sexual assault and the response from women across DC.

(Source: Washington Post)

Knight News Challenge Round 2: Remote Access: Putting geographic data in the hands of threatened communities

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Develop cloud-based tools that enable remote communities to manage, monitor and visualize geographic and environmental data to drive community-led change.

2. How will your project make data more useful? [50 words]

Remote communities will be able to…

(Reblogged from newschallenge2)

Welcome to my blog!

This is just a collection of musings from me, John Brougher, on media, culture, technology, politics and living in America in an age that defies description as part of a generation searching for meaning.

UPDATE: It’s actually mostly just me saying random stuff.