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Just watch this
I really enjoy the Rachel Maddow show in general, but that isn't why I'm posting this. Once in a while she does something so insightful and important that I dragged my boyfriend over to the TV and make him watch it. I don't do this often. I think the last time it was actually to watch C-SPAN (Alan Goodman and Michael Blakey addressing the ( Read more... ) -
Why United Healthcare Is Losing My Business
Health insurance companies are inherently parasitical-- they are why the American people pay more for healthcare, and get less. They all, being corporations, will invariably choose the most profitable course of action regardless of any ethical considerations, up to and including the life or death of multiple human beings. Being corporations, they ( Read more... ) -
Dealing [vintage clothing] to support my habit
First, the shameless self-promotion: I will be cleaning out my closet, and selling off a lot of my vintage clothing collection on Saturday, July 26, at Midnight in DC. there are a whole lot of things that are just too big or too small, or just don't suit me. I am somewhat of a stickler for condition, but I am also selling some wounded birds/ ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on what Rand Paul said (repeatedly)
Okay, the go-backs are in the public discourse and the media are pretending they have something legitimate to say. This is in response to the ABC News story. More later.
Nobody said Paul wanted to repeal the Civil RIghts Act. Nobody said that he would have been against it (although some have asked him, which is a perfectly reasonable kind of ( Read more... ) -
In defense of humorless "political correctness."
Something alumiere linked recently reminded me of this story, and prompted me to think of it in new ways. This is also, incidentally, an examply of why alumiere is cool
I probably repeat myself a couple of times at the end, but here goes:
Many years ago (in high school, so you aren't getting any numbers--I prefer to preserve the impression that I am immortal), a ( Read more... ) -
Meme from Alumiere
Five Accessibility Issues -- "Write down the first five accessibility issues you have as you go about your normal day, and your solutions, if any. The micro level stuff that you get around with duct tape and cussedness, I mean. The practical, every day stuff you don’t really think about anymore."
1. Lack of speech recognition software for Linux ( Read more... ) -
Patriotism
A friend's husband said to me the other night that he had given up on America as soon as Obama won. He later claimed that he was patriotic. I loved my country even when George W. Bush ruled, although I do not consider his first-term to have been legitimate, and I suspect that an analysis of variance would raise some serious questions about the 2004 ( Read more... ) -
Kneppergate continued
Here is the promised list of sponsors of the unrepentantly irresponsible AU school paper.
There don't seem to be many, and most are American University (which also may be providing them office space rent-free. This post is typed slowly and painfully by hand because they only have two adaptive technology rooms on the entire campus, and the excuse is ( Read more... )