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What Games Should I Rent?
Thanks to a survey rewards program, I received three coupons, each valid for one free game rental that works out to one free rental per month for three consecutive months from Blockbuster (I figure I might as well make use of this while they're still around).
I own a Nintendo DS Lite.
I have access to a Wii.
Friends list, can you make any rental ( Read more... ) -
Conservatives You Disagree With Aren't Crazy: More reflections on Crazy and Ableism
This follow up is an attempt to salvage something useful from what I first started in a post in the Pit of Flames subsection of the Talking Time Messageboard. (ETA: I will not be revisiting the thread. I have it linked for the sake of completeness and to show where the roots of some of my thoughts have come from. This journal entry here is meant to ( Read more... ) -
ATTN: Ax-grinder with a connection to the toastyboard
Whomever is trying to anonymously spam this livejournal with stuff related to the thread I started on the abelist use of the word crazy and my frustration with people complaining that spending a few moments thinking of something that doesn't contribute to further marginalization is just too hard... first of all, I automagically screen anonymous ( Read more... ) -
One Step Too Far
Welsh Branch Of Woman's Aid Unveils "One Step Too Far" Ad Campaign:
From A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/10198459.stm">The BBC:
Adele Baumgardt, Wales commissioner for the Women's National Commission, said: "Gender discrimination affects women in Wales daily ( Read more... ) -
Respectfail w/r/t Wiscon?
I mean seriously... are how some of the vocal and jerky atheists reflective of the general attitude of Wiscon? Can those on my friends list clue me in? I mean, I seriously was considering attending next year, but if that's the general tenor ( Read more... ) -
Kickedoff by an infuriating conversation with my grandmother...
... and the separate blogs I have read today with their own particular brand of assumptive fail ( Read more... ) -
What the hell, Supreme court?
In a 5-4 decision in the case of Berghuis v. Thompkins, the Supreme Court has ruled that suspects must explicitly assert their right to remain silent under the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision.
NYT link here, full ruling here, and the SCOTUSblog breaks it down here.
Is it just me, or does this seem VERY messed up? I mean, if a suspect invokes ( Read more... ) -
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Puerto Rican-born citizen Eduardo Caraballo was nearly deported even after producing his birth certificate, proving that he's an American citizen because "he looked Mexican". He did not have the right of habeus corpus, was not given access to a lawyer, and it took the combined efforts of his mother working to prove his citizenship and intercession ( Read more... ) -
Why "Everyone Draw Muhammad Day" Is Nothing But Bullying
I got woken up by some stuff, so I until I get to sleep, I figure this needs saying here.
Regarding a US cartoonist's "Everybody Draw Muhammad Please, Please Link To My Website, I'm So Edgy and Important Oh God Please Make Me Cool Day ( Read more... )
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