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No idea whether he was on something or had a nervous breakdown or what, but apparently this is, um, a bit out of character for Jason Russell. The San Diego police department has taken him to a medical facility after he apparently went something close to crazy in public. Specifically, via NBC: Jason Russell, 33, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social causes’
Invisible Children #Kony2012 filmmaker detained for masturbating in public
March 16th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Current Events, Memes, Privilege 
Tags: Christianity, dominionism, Jason Russell, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, memes, privilege, racism, social causes, viral videos 
5 Comments »Gay marriage doesn’t threaten our marriage
February 7th, 2012 Jason Thibeault I’m reblogging a post in full by an esteemed fellow Canuck, George Waye, who has asked for help in spreading the word on this laudable cause. I’d like you to meet Derek Forgie. I’ve known Derek for almost twenty years- we were both involved in the arts community here in North Bay for many years [...]
Posted in Canada, Gender, Marriage Tags: Canada, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, marriage, social causes 19 Comments »The numbers don’t lie: as many long guns in Toronto as in rural areas
January 31st, 2012 Jason Thibeault The impending destruction of the long gun registry has been touted by conservatives (and most especially conserva-bot sockpuppets) as being primarily intended as a sop to the rural voters who are “disproportionately affected” by the long gun registry is another demonstrable falsehood. As it turns out, there are 287,000 long guns in the Greater Toronto [...]
Posted in Canada, Guns, Politics Tags: bullshit, Canada, Conservatives, domestic murder, domestic violence, Harper, long gun registry, social causes, women 6 Comments »How-to guide for male supremacists: give women acid baths
November 30th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via The Guardian (disturbing photos on the landing page): Seventeen-year-old Neela Khatunis is one of more than 2,700 victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh over the past 10 years. ‘My husband was angry … because he claimed a dowry but my family couldn’t provide one,’ she says. ‘His plan was to sell me in Saudi [...]
Posted in Gender, Privilege Tags: acid throwing, feminism, misogyny, Pakistan, social causes 7 Comments »Christians laud Haitians’ godliness in face of all their oppression
November 29th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Reader Michael Fisher passed along a post by Christian sociologist Margarita A. Mooney of Black, White and Grey (a Patheos blog) lauding Haitians for turning to God in their extreme suffering. It is apparently a repost from her post last Thanksgiving, and it seems to wholly miss the crux of the issue: that being, the [...]
Posted in Asshats, Religion Tags: disaster relief, Haiti, opportunism, oppression, pseudoscience, religion, social causes 6 Comments »Got a buck? Sponsor a rescue kitty!
November 18th, 2011 Jason Thibeault My sister-in-law Teri, living in Georgia with her husband Shannon, has just rescued a ten-year-old cat she found near her place of employ. This kitty either ran away or was abandoned, was extremely sickly when Teri found her, and evidently has a lump on her thyroid. Since Teri and Shannon have enormous hearts but only [...]
Another thank-you note from Donors Choose
November 3rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault This one from Mr. Mulligan of Science Supplies to Engage and Amaze: My project has been funded, and my students and I are all tremendously excited! With your support, we will be able to turn my class into a more engaging place, where the students will be able to get their hands on some of [...]
Google: US law enforcement cheating at Youtube
November 2nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via The Guardian: Google faced down demands from a US law enforcement agency to take down YouTube videos allegedly showing police brutality earlier this year, figures released for the first time show.
Posted in Computers, Politics Tags: censorship, corruption, law enforcement, police, revisionism, social causes 3 Comments »Police in Oakland disperse crowd using a flashbang while they try to rescue Iraq vet
October 26th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Way to go, you jackbooted thugs, you fascist assholes. I hope you feel really big now. These people were trying to rescue the 24 year old two-tour Iraq War veteran you just shot in the face with a tear gas canister — fracturing his damned skull, by the way — and you have the gall [...]
Posted in Current Events, Privilege Tags: iraq war, occupy wall street, ows, police brutality, social causes 6 Comments »On the Role of the Middle Class in Occupy Wall Street
October 22nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’ve been involved in a conversation with Juniper Shoemaker these past few days about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the worry that the middle class will eventually co-opt it, and that the concerns of the less-privileged will be subsumed into returning the middle class to the status quo. It’s also been a conversation largely about [...]
Posted in Politics, Privilege Tags: civil rights, corporatocracy, education, grassroots, hippies, occupy wall street, ows, privilege, social causes 16 Comments »
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