Hello, world, and welcome to my little corner of the internet.
I was motivated to start this blog because I was deeply troubled by developments in the United States during the Bush administration. Our civil rights were steadily being eroded by his administration, working people and the environment were (and still are) being trampled by multinational corporations concerned only with raking in obscene profits, political corruption seems to be the rule rather than the exception in our nation’s capital, and looming over all of this, there are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I welcome and encourage comments to my posts. You can also email me at janedoe_tcandm [at] inbox.com
For now, I am allowing anyone who wants to post comments to do so, though I reserve the right to cancel comments that are abusive or threatening. If things get nasty, I may change that policy, but I hope not to. I believe that the appropriate cure for offensive or abusive speech is more speech, not censorship. Nevertheless, I would prefer to see reasoned debate over ad hominem attacks. If I start seeing too much of the latter at the expense of the former, I will change my posting policy. Let’s all play nice, shall we?
-jane doe
7 comments
Comments feed for this article
May 14, 2007 at 3:41 pm
verdantair
Hello. I just wandered on to your site, and admittedly, haven’t had a chance to read much yet, but I like it already (and I’m not even into politics). I’ll be sure to visit again.
November 26, 2008 at 10:37 am
cyberaxis
Nice title and graphic.
You might wanna separate the word “thought” from “crimes” in your title. If you wanna keep the words together, a dash as in “thought-crimes” would be a better option.
November 28, 2008 at 6:12 am
jane doe
Hi, cyberaxis -
Thanks for your comment on the title and graphic.
I opted for the one-word treatment of “thoughtcrimes” because of the Orwellian connotations of that word – and yes, it IS a word in that form, at least according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime) and several articles cited by that entry. A Google search of the term also pulls up MANY references to “thoughtcrimes” as a single word.
I was going for a sort of mash-up between the Orwellian concept of crimethink (also one word, per G. Orwell) with the concept of “high crimes and misdemeanors” which is, along with treason, the constitutional standard for removal of an sitting president via the impeachment process. Since obviously “crimethink” does not work well with “high crimes and misdemeanors” – let’s face it “high crimethink and misdemeanors” just doesn’t flow – I substituted the more commonly used “thoughtcrimes” – and I’m not going to split it into two words or hyphenate it, as I believe this would reduce the Orwellian connotations that I very much wanted to capture in the blog title.
On a related note: I find it ironic that someone who has titled his or her blog “cyberaxis” would criticize the use of the term “thoughtcrime” as a single word when it appears that “cyberaxis” is more commonly split into two separate words unless one is referencing the Singapore-based web hosting company of that name. At least that’s what my admittedly cursory search on Google suggests. :-)
Best wishes,
-jd
November 28, 2008 at 12:56 pm
cyberaxis
I stand corrected.
Your point about cyberaxis is well taken. I think I was influenced by the dot-com thing for combining words in web addresses. I am quite ambivalent about it actually, but as catchall blog titles go, it will have to do for now.
November 28, 2008 at 3:57 pm
jane doe
Hey, wasn’t trying to correct, just to explain my logic. And of course, get my little pot/kettle comment in. :-)
December 22, 2008 at 3:35 am
Carey Lenehan
Hi Jane, just passed by to check you out. Will come back and read more soon, but for now, I like your words and mindset. Be back soon. :) XXCarey
November 15, 2009 at 12:52 am
Naima
Hi Jane,
So glad I came across you on #nanowrimo search on Twitter. I love the premise of your blog – touch of outrage with a great sense of humour mixed in with your message.
Can’t wait to read all the posts, and good luck with the new story.
-naima