As I read eyewitness accounts and watched videos of the police crackdown on the Occupy Oakland protest the other day, I was flooded with emotions ranging from disgust to disappointment.

If I've learned anything while writing my first blast, it’s that you should be thankful for your freedoms.

A story is unfolding that has environmentalists, civil liberties advocates, and music lovers all taking notice.

A group of festival goers calling themselves the Bunk Police are on a mission to test the purity of illegal drugs being sold on the shakedown streets of music festivals around the country. They're finding that more often than not, things are not what they seem. From the Bunk Police website:

There’s never a dull moment in the world of liberty and I’m once again here to give you the low down.

Two years ago, the New York Legislature rejected same-sex marriage.