37 Minutes to First Degree
In what will certainly be hailed as a victory for anyone sane enough to realize that you don’t go around killing people for holding a different view, Scott Roeder was found guilty of first degree...
View ArticleObama in Bullet Time
I’ve been very busy the last week or so with something that we’ll just keep under wraps for the time being, which means I’ve been somewhat behind the ball on everything else. But Laurie wanted to make...
View Articlequick thoughts on health care reform from an admitted baby eater*
It’s not too surprising that I occasionally (okay, frequently) am asked my opinion about the health care push, what I think, and so forth. So, in an effort to cover all bases at once, and cut down a...
View ArticleProp H8 Supporters Continue Their Quest to Look Stupid
Normally, I try for some small modicum of tact. (I can hear you laughing from here, Michael. Shut up.) But this latest tactic from Prop 8 supporters can really only be boiled down as “stupid:” In...
View ArticleAttempting Goals – Weekly Schedule
The problem (okay, a problem – there are more than one) with parasthesia is it doesn’t give you much warning. One minute, your hands are working fie, and the next minute you’re marveling at your...
View ArticleWill Glitter Change the World?
One of the longer-running arguments my ex-husband and I had was whether or not change comes from someone working within the system, or from outside the system. I always envisioned the illustration of...
View ArticleIs It Moral for Lefties to Vote for Obama What?
Over at The Atlantic yesterday, Conor Friedersdorf explained why he refuses to vote for Barack Obama this election season. His argument boils down to Obama having a dismal human rights record: Obama...
View ArticleYet Another Rape Apologist in a Position of Power
It’s been a banner year for rape in the media, and apparently December just felt left out. Joining the likes of: Todd “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down”...
View ArticleIn Which An Editor Obnoxiously Brags About Her Author
I spent much of the fall grumbling – mostly good-naturedly – about editing a dissertation on the dual-use dilemma in the life sciences. I fell into editing the project rather late,1 which led to some...
View ArticleHobby Lobby, Contraception, & the Supreme Court Ruling
As expected, the last case ruled on before the Supreme Court of the United States adjourned until October was the Hobby Lobby/Conestoga case. For those unaware, this case is based on the Affordable...
View ArticleNNSA and the Art of Reading Political Spin
Gizmodo’s got an alarming story up, at least if you consider unattended nuclear stockpiles and a’splodey bomb photos alarming: According to an official within the Department of Energy, this past...
View Articlethe worst kind of “pussy policing” from the Washington Post
Ah, women. You know how it is: if we’d just tone it down a little, be more respectful, less emotional, less colorful, less pink, then men would take us seriously. If we just didn’t wear that short...
View ArticleVISA Interview Waiver Programs, VISA Waiver Programs, INA Sec 222, What?
So hey, how about these last 7 days, eh? Have we figured out how to stop this ride? No? Not yet? Cuz we really, really need to – our tangerine toddler can’t write worth a damn, and it’s starting to …...
View ArticleAfter 36 hours of chaos, a spot of calm in Boston
Self-care, with yes, a dose of privilege, demanded stepping away from the Internet on Sunday, and the continued infuriating and illegal actions of our temper-tantrum-tossing tangerine toddler. It was...
View ArticleMake Oceania Great Again – Trump Administration Bans Seven Words from CDC Budget
Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for ‘Science’. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is...
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