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Charles M. Blow wrote in the NYTimes yesterday about how huge percentages of Republican Americans believe demonstrably untrue things about President Obama. Following is a graphic of some of the recent polling:

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Many of you are mutually friendly with the much-missed tania_sings. Since I've been generally away from the internet over the past week, I'm really, really grateful that so many of my dear ones are posting updates on her safety and the safety of her family ( Read more... )

Hi, folks. For those of you who are interested in such things, I am offering drabbles in exchange for donation pledges over at songquake_fic.

Cholera is just awful. And the huge tragedy is that this situation was utterly preventable: there just wasn't the political will (by the Haitian government, the UN, or NGO's) to take the steps needed to ensure that ( Read more... )

So, I may have mentioned over the summer that the choir I'm in (Young New Yorkers' Chorus) has been invited to sing at The 2011 American Choral Directors Association National Conference in CHICAGO this coming March. This is one of the most prestigious gigs a choir can be offered, and I'm thrilled to be going. I'm a dork; I've dreamed of getting to ( Read more... )