I know conuly discusses this sometimes, but I happened to stumble upon this article about someone who is shocked and dismayed that schools do not necessarily still teach cursive. And it is full of how people who can't write in cursive are at a serious disadvantage. Which I find ... laughable. Really ridiculous ( Read more... )

Reading notalwaysright and this one caught my notice. I'll copy it under a cut.
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There are many ways in which I do think the world does get better and that my country does get better, but there are also so many ways in which I see it getting worse.

Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult (his title, not mine), and I suppose that's why I know various people who used to identify as Republican or used to grudgingly ( Read more... )

It occurred to me to call my phone company to check to make sure they represented them, since that was something that I could do. They confirmed that they were working for the company and said it sounded like the people were just not being very professional and they apologized, when I explained that I was confused by their behavior just being a bit ( Read more... )

So, I decided to check to see if there were any people with darch's last name floating around. I know it's uncommon, but I figured there must be some. Sure enough, Facebook had about 25. I only checked the females, and unsurprisingly I kept finding that they weren't in the US or didn't list their location. But then I found one who might be married ( Read more... )

This is not the 1950s people. This is not a difficult concept. I just had what should not have been a difficult conversation with some people ( Read more... )

Apparently California has been feeling neglected with the East Coast getting all the attention today, and it gave me a little quake tonight, just to remind me of it. It was pretty small, although really close to where I live. Just a little, hi, I'm here, I'm seismically active, get used to it quake. Maybe it was in tribute to the East Coast? ( Read more... )

I hope you're all okay. From what I've read, it seems like people have pretty much been fine. I've heard from various people, so that's good. I hope you're all alright. I know some people who were pretty freaked out though, and I can understand that. It was a reasonable-sized quake and people really weren't expecting it. And I know some people ( Read more... )

I think this post makes a really good point linkIt is discussing what probably will not work and what might. At first, it seemed like explaining the issue might work. That's been done. Now, the question is what can people practically do to try to fix this. And I do think fixing it is important. Google is big. Google is too big for a policy this bad ( Read more... )

So, I have read a fair bit about how more urban areas tend to pay more in taxes than they get back in taxes and rural areas tend to be the reverse. Urban areas tend to need to support rural areas. Now, I don't think rural areas should be forced to cope with all of their expenses on their own, and I think cutting them off from the rest of the world ( Read more... )