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Do You Think a Group That Practices Harassment Like the Westboro Baptist Church Should be Tax-Exempt
I started a White House Petition 14 days ago to tell the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of the Westboro Baptist Church. Since then, 72,000 people have signed it. A person named Ralph W from Maine was number 72,000. It'll be online another 2 weeks, and I hope to reach 100,000 signers by then. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ ( Read more... ) -
Nights Away From Home Meme, 2012
Feb 16-Feb 29 - Boston, MA (Boskone ( Read more... ) -
Republicans Still Can't Come to Grips with Voters
Republicans Still Can't Come to Grips with Voters
The Wednesday-morning quarterbacking by Republicans indicate they've learned nothing from Tuesday night. -
My Look at the Readercon Incident and the Blowback from It
http://nolongerslowblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/she-saidhe-said-and-plunging-all-fandom.htmlError correction - when I first posted this essay, I called it "He Said/She Said" Not long afterwards, I realized that this title was completely wrong. Only a few people doubt what she or he said in relation to what happened at Readercon this year. The real ( Read more... ) -
Annual Overnght Travel Meme
List all the places (outside of your home) where you spent at least one night ( Read more... ) -
I Remember Hurricane Gloria
I lived in Westboro, Massachusetts, a small town in central Massachusetts in late September 1985 when hurricane Gloria hit our state. At that time, both Jim and I worked for Stratus Computer and our daughter Leslie was almost five. We'd recently moved to a duplex on a rural road about two miles south of Route 9 (if you live in the Westboro area now ( Read more... ) -
The Long Slow Suicide of Borders
I haven't been writing much lately, but this has been percolating for a while:
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My Boskone Schedule
I'm going to be managing the Den for the most part (so while I'll look like I'm in hiding, I'm actually just working). Luckily, Mark Olson and Joann Cox have popped me on a couple of panels ( Read more... ) -
Ann Cecil, founder of PARSEC and Confluence, died this morning
She was 70, and had been diagnosed with lung cancer about 15 months ago ( Read more... )