BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

CHRISTIAN NATION... OF IGNORANCE With a presidential election coming in about a year, there's been much chatter in the blogosphere about the candidates. Some even on this blog. I have lamented with other bloggers that there are no real leaders anywhere in either party. To me, it all seems very homogenized. I love politics and history. Always have. My late mother, however, would draw me into a political discussion with her other adult friends then chastize me severely for having strong opinions as well being able to argue point for point with her friends. She didn't like it and made me believe I was being 'uppity.' My trauma counselors believe she was jealous. I learned to keep my mouth closed and just shut down that part of me until recently. Another family member is a big politics-junkie too. And that got me going again as well as into blogging in 2003. Additionally, if I hadn't been so good with English Literature and Writing in undergrad school, I wou...

BETRAYED BY THE INTERNET! With all the recent buzz in the JBlogsphere on the Orthomom case and in the Domestic Violence Blogsphere (and I'm fairly certain every other blog niche on the net) on anonymity, free speech and intellectual property law - I felt this article was important enough and 'scary' enough to warrant reposting it here. Be glad this isn't us... or is it? Read EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers YAHOO BETRAYED MY HUSBAND! By Luke O'Brien (excerpts) FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He's been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it's a technical issue. This is the day he learns he's wrong. Wang picks up the phone: "Yes?" "Are...