The Bias is in the Missing
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in the United States has also been difficult to gather. Contributing to this difficulty is the fact that many times when Indigenous women and girls go missing, or when Indigenous murder victims are unidentified, forensic evidence has not been accurately collected or preserved by local law enforcement. Cases have been allowed to quickly go "cold", and crucial evidence has been "lost", or never forwarded on from local law enforcement to the appropriate agencies.
Enjoy the Silence
The first amendment states (among other things) that Congress shall not make a law abridging the freedom of speech. Since Congress cannot pass a law regarding what persons can say or write it falls to the independent actors to censor behaviors. Elizabeth Purdy defines Censors as those who seek to limit freedom of thought and expression by restricting spoken words, printed matter, symbolic messages, freedom of association, books, art, music, movies, television programs, and Internet sites. When the government engages in censorship, First Amendment freedoms are implicated. The Courts have several tests associated with the First Amendment to determine if an action is protected speec
Highs and Lows
It’s Two AM
The Politics of a Sinking Ship
Irrespective of your political leanings, there has been an ongoing message rampant on both sides of the aisle in every form of media; And at the risk of losing readership due to the inundation of politics we all will be facing until November, I feel it’s my patriotic duty to repeat it :
Get out and vote !
Could You Be…Won’t You Be…
It’s been a big week. November is coming, and all sorts of discussion points have been tossed around from or at either side of the political aisle. RBG has passed, with the predicable response from all sides about “going nuclear”. Fires are still burning out West, and in our cities. Rhetoric is being made from all walks of life regarding “justice” with limited definition of what that term really means. Sometimes, the adage that “one’s emotional response is inversely proportional to their understanding” seems more of a reality.
On the Horror of Loss.
Vote Cthulhu 2020 !
Discussion on what the world would be like in 2020 if Cthulhu existed.
CYBERPUNK Thoughts
In my interpretation of the genre, the stories take on great action sequences and requires the reader to take a giant leap of reality. What I find fascinating, and fearful, as I read about the “woke culture” is how more Cyberpunk we are becoming. The current perception of inequality regarding US society and policing, the technological equality among all sides (looking at social media, the medical technology regarding gender realignment and policies governing societal impact), the perception that the government is weak in the influence of companies, the legalization of marijuana. All these things point to the growth of the Cyberpunk movement, irrespective of peoples’ political view.