Chris Betcher

tl;dr ... just click here and do the right thing. I've done it. You've probably done it too.  You're making some kind of digital product and you needed a digital asset of some sort to use with it. Maybe you were putting together a short video and needed some music for the soundtrack, or maybe you were working on some kind of poster and needed an image to include on it. Fortunately, we live in a world where we have access to amazing digital tools that make it easy to create, as long as you have some raw materials to work with. While it's technically quite simple to just find what you want online and use it, there are some ethical (and legal) questions about just taking anything you find on the web and using it as your raw material. Unless you have permission to use those resources you really shouldn't use them. It's effectively stealing. Thankfully, that's where  Creative Commons comes in. Creative Commons provides a legal and ethical solution to...

On TV tonight I saw an ad from some group that calls themselves the " Marriage Alliance ". I looked at their website which seems to be a thinly veiled attempt to be open minded when really all they want to do is oppose same sex marriage and maintain the unfair status quo... Their site poses a number of open questions about marriage, and while they purport to being just trying to encourage a healthy discussion about the value of marriage in general, it's pretty obvious what their agenda is. They are clearly in opposition to same sex marriage. So, since they asked, here are my answers to the questions on their website... Should children have the right to know their biological history? Yes. As an adopted child myself, I should have the right to know my history if I choose to. Some choose to and some do not. But what's your point?  So what if a child of a same sex couple knows their biological history and where they came from?  You thin...