I'm pretty worn out considering how much of today I spent sitting down. While it's not quite at the level of your average Jillian-Day-Of-Many-Things, it's about as close as I ever get, and so merits describing via LiveJournal ( Read more... )

Behold, a mighty armada!

The ship has sailed on Pacific Regionalism.

The ship has sailed on stopping Obamacare.

The ship has sailed on living a Magnum PI lifestyle.

The ship has sailed on Nicolas Cage starring in another Ghost Rider movie.

The ship has sailed on federal funding for the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.

The ship has sailed ( Read more... )

I was looking into the collision between religious-freedom laws and anti-discrimination laws, spurred on by reading the recent news about the New Mexico wedding photographer who was accused of refusing to take pictures of a gay wedding (I should at least mention in passing that gay marriage is not legal in NM ( Read more... )

"the consequences of this widespread belief that boys and men are constantly addled to the point of harm, is, of course, to punish girls and women"And, because I ought to start with my own thoughts, I'm trying to weigh the unfairness to both the dentist and the dental assistant. What protected-class status should be given to looks? Should the ( Read more... )

I think the world is in desperate need of a Mrs.-Malaprop-like character whose distinguishing feature is that she always misreads the intentions of written internet communications, thinking them much more antagonistic or sarcastic than the writer intended, and responding in kind, exacerbating the situation ( Read more... )

Sometimes reading the same story from different sources just makes my head hurt. These can't all be true, but how to tell which? The worst part is how brazenly one or more of these sources is lying, simply stating (theoretically) easily verifiable things and just assuming no one will call them on it. So who should I be calling?

From NBC News, 10/ ( Read more... )

Lonnnnnnng day. First I put up the signs I'd made last night--recruiting for volunteers to join the Swarthmore neighborhood team for the Obama campaign, ending at McCabe library where I discovered what I'm going to do tomorrow: try to solve an Augean-stables-sized puzzle of hundreds of classical CDs, the booklets for those CDs, and the trays/inlay ( Read more... )

Is this what we're going to be on about for the next week or so? MSNBC's Chris Hayes does a show on Memorial Day weekend about public perception of soldiers, and utters a money quote that manages to appear simultaneously disrespectful of fallen military and intellectually presumptuous (I'll let you google it for yourself; it's the only part of the ( Read more... )

I just got an email requesting a contribution to the Obama campaign. Nothing unusual about that. But here's the entire email - you'll probably see why I reinspected it carefully to make sure it wasn't a fraud using link-misdirection ( Read more... )

Posit: Rick Santorum has now done enough to establish himself as a credible candidate that, even though he will lose the nomination to Romney, he will now be the "next in line" automatic frontrunner for 2016 (or 2020).

Discuss.