In a post I wrote recently for Global Voices, I covered the efforts of the Mouvement Alternatif pour les Libertés Individuelles, a new Moroccan activist group that recently made headlines for eating in public during Ramadan. In effect, they broke the law; Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code stipulates that a Muslim who openly […]
I remember a time when the world felt big. Where, as an angsty nineteen year old, I told a friend over cigarettes and copious amounts of coffee that the better alternative to suicide was to run away, lose yourself in a part of the world that you’d never even imagined. I remembered that conversation three […]
A bit of a diversion from my usual topics, but I got this e-mail from CafePress that cracked me up and I couldn’t help but share. The popular product creation company is partnering with the new Fame movie brand to allow users to create fan products. At first this struck me as an excellent online-mass […]