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News URLs in legal filings, despite lack of permalinks
as I wait for the steam cleaners to finish our downstairs, I am reading with some interest the Plaintiff/Appellee's response to SCOTUS on Utah's request for a stay on the 20 Dec 2013 ruling striking Utah's ban on same-sex marriages, which the District and Circuit courts have refused to stay ( Read more... ) -
I hope the medical staff supporting Jahi all have good therapists
I've been trying to avoid posting about Jahi McMath, which is one of the more disturbing news stories in the Bay Area this month. But I really can't help it. (wendelina2: this might be a bit too close to home so don't read if it bugs you.)
Jahi McMath, through tragic circumstances we do not know, but which I suspect have much to do with a post- ( Read more... ) -
class divide leads to violence, which reinforces class divides
sometimes the American class war problem - that the media, and often the left wing too, always tries to recast as race war - shines though loud and clear ( Read more... ) -
Today I am thankful for...
- my life, how I've somehow escaped many traps the world has laid for others
- my ESO, around whom my entire life orbits
- my friends, although I am not seeing them as much as I'd like
- my teammates at work, who are awesome and funny and smart and fun
- my doggies, who are also awesome and funny and smart and fun (just not in the same way)
- my cats, that I ( Read more... )
- my life, how I've somehow escaped many traps the world has laid for others
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Why Meyers-Briggs Sucks
I've recently taken to using Digg as a jump page for interesting articles. one which caught my eye had the headline on Digg (they always change the headlines) "The Economic Differences Between Myers-Briggs Personality Types". curious, having gone through enough HR-sponsored workshops based on Meyers-Briggs, and taken enough "free online tests" ( Read more... ) -
What I wrote to my congressperson just now.
Dear Ms Speier ( Read more... ) -
I told you so.
to all my friends from UCSC who told me I was paranoid and wrong when I posted to yam about how in the future the government would collect all your position data and the biggest fear was what some middling bureaucrat would do with it: I told you so.
didn't I? I said, soon the government would have it all. violent crime would start decreasing, ( Read more... ) -
what a weird day
I was all set to compose a post about my weird day, but now I am typing about it, I can't even put my finger on why it is so weird. well, I always think the first week in february is weird, but I don't think that's it this time ( Read more... ) -
no Disneyland after all, but realigning friendships.
so my planning skills are even worse than normal, and silly me, I came down to Southern California hoping to go to Disneyland in the wintertime. it's 81 degrees there today and I don't really have such appropriate clothing ( Read more... )
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