Today I found this on Twitter and I'm telling everyone who I think might be interested. Tamara Cimmerian, singer for a band called KatZen, has fibromyalgia and the band has released a 3-song EP called Overcome. One-third of the proceeds will go to the National Fibromyalgia Association. It's only $2.97, available at iTunes, Amazon, and other online ( Read more... )

These announcements always seem self-important to me, but maybe people really do like to know... I just deleted about 20 journals from my friends list. Most of them were long, LONG dormant journals, but I also deleted journals from my list if I felt that we never connected, that we grew apart, or if we never commented to each other's posts. It's ( Read more... )

If you intend to vote a straight ticket for any party in North Carolina, then you must still indicate your choice for president on your ballot. In other words, don't check the box for "straight ticket" and expect that your vote for president has been cast.

You should be told this when you're at the polling place - or it should at least be printed ( Read more... )

It's Mental Illness Awareness Week! Click the link to find out what you can do to help spread knowledge and awareness about various mental illnesses, medications, and the truth behind all the stigma.

On a related note, Thursday will be Bipolar Awareness Day.

Disclaimer: Despite the pasted text below, I don't actually care if you post it or not. I won't think less of you if you don't. I merely wanted to post it myself, in my own LJ, as we all do post things in our own LJs. Thanks."Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines ( Read more... )

If the recent changes to voice posts have broken your friends page and you have Flexible Squares as your layout, then read this post.

I'm probably not the only one who had this problem, so I thought I should spread the word.

I got this from eldritch48, who got it from genkisakka.

A lot has been said about how to prevent rape.

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Because we desperately needed more evidence of his evil, I share with you the news that Samuel Alito helped write a 1980s Department Of Justice opinion that employers could legally fire people living with AIDS. I don't care that it was early in the epidemic, because that doesn't excuse it.