Memo to Congress

Don’t know what CISPA (The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is about? Please learn — once again, like with SOPA, the freedom to use the internet is at stake. See Alex Howard’s excellent overview, “Passage of CISPA in the U.S. House highlights need for viable cybersecurity legislation” at O’Reilly Radar.

If you’re equally incensed, find our how your representative voted. If they opposed it, thank them. If they supported it (as mine, Joe Heck, did) find their phone number on this list and call them and tell them (as I did) that because they voted for CISPA, come the next election cycle you will be voting against them.

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Copyright © 2012, by Daniel Brenton. All Rights Reserved.

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Obama taking the Oath of Office

Don’t know what CISPA (The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is about? Please learn — once again, like with SOPA, the freedom to use the internet is at stake. For an overview, read “Stop Cyber Spying Week – Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing CISPA” at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Deeplinks Blog.”

Better, get involved by going directly to EFF’s Stop Cyber Spying page.

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Copyright © 2012, by Daniel Brenton. All Rights Reserved.

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Human Commentary #002 – Unconditional … What?

April 15, 2012
Unconditional ... What?

Jesus answering a man in the back of the crowd: “No, Love doesn’t cost anything. No … no, it can’t be used as a weapon.” (Pause.) The man: “What ELSE do you have?”

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Human Commentary #001 – A Better Place

April 14, 2012
A Better Place

Philanthropy!? Be realistic, son. Go back to law school. There’s no money in philanthropy.

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Gratitude for Significant Trivialities

March 18, 2012
THE Shopping Cart

See this shopping cart?

I am grateful for this shopping cart. Not just for shopping carts, but this shopping cart, specifically. I latched on to this one in the parking lot of the neighborhood big box store a week ago, and after I was done with it I just knew I’d be writing this.

(Seriously.)

No, it didn’t hold the most exciting purchase I ever made, win the war against terrorism, or even save my life. However …

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Why Are Our Freedoms Being Stolen … Really?

March 11, 2012
The Wall that The Writing is On

December, 2010: the middle eastern nation of Tunisia erupted in protests against a corrupt and oppressive government, arguably the first bloom of the “Arab Spring.” As the rest of the world watched, mesmerized, the drama unfolded, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was thrown out, and the subsequent interim government went through several upheavals.

I remember, shortly after Tunisia’s Ben Ali was ousted, I had an errant thought: could this happen here?

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