Laughing Out Loud with Jon Swift

March 4, 2010 by DJ Lanphier
One day a few years ago an e-mail arrived in my inbox. It was from someone named “Jon Swift”. It was a simple comment on a post I’d written as well as a a nice compliment. It was then and there that I knew that whoever Jon was, he was a nice guy. And, it [...]

The Birther Movement is Racism

July 23, 2009 by DJ Lanphier
The “birther” movement is an extreme right wing disinformation campaign that proffers the idea that President Obama is not a US citizen, and was born abroad in Kenya. Here’s the rub: there are no actual facts to support this claim, rather the disinfo subsists on a form of cognitive dissonance – denial – and is [...]

blogroll amnesty day!

February 3, 2009 by DJ Lanphier
We’ve come to that time of year when we celebrate the web traffic challenged amongst us, and we spread the love. What’s it all about? As Jon Swift puts it, Blog Amnesty Day is… ” a day when we salute all of the great smaller blogs that don’t get the recognition they deserve. [...] So [...]

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