“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This is a picture of me in the dark. Stop #SOPA #J18 | #njpoet #scrapbook:
Only two American industries have ever had the clout in Washington to force Congress to ban Wall Street from trading futures on their products. The first was onions—futures trading in no one’s favorite root vegetable was banned in the 1950s after farmers protested that Chicago speculators were manipulating prices. The other ban is more recent: In 2010, at the urging of the Motion Picture Association of America, one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lobbies, Congress banned movie futures as part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill.
The big studios took on Wall Street—which isn’t known for losing lobbying fights—and won. So this month, when all the big entertainment companies joined forces with Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s foremost big business lobby, to fight for sweeping anti-piracy legislation, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would get what they wanted.
Instead, Big Hollywood lost.
Some observers say the [#SOPAblackout] day of protest may come to represent a fundamental shift in the legislative landscape, a flexing of a new found and untraditional source of political power in the Internet sector.
(Source: blog.seattlepi.com)
#SOPA will destroy the Internet. #BlackoutSOPA: 8AM - 8PM #J18 #ows
#BlackoutSOPA #J18
PLEASE STOP #SOPA!!! #BlackoutSOPA #J18
Please enjoy this #NDAA musical aside, dedicated to my good friends at the @ACLU #ows
Orwell Rolls in His Grave [Full Screening] dedicated to the #NDAA #MSM Blackout:
