My sister - who has ulcerative colitis - has written a guest post for my authoblog about her experiences, how fortunate she is, and how much she still needs the Affordable Care Act. It's fantastic. Read it.

As much as I need the ACA, there are countless other people who need it far more desperately. In truth, they need something much more ( Read more... )

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I'm'a just leave this here.

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So from good news to bad news. Bear with me, I need to rant for a minute.

From UMD's paper, The Diamondback: ‘Doomsday’ budget looms over legislators, students.
As the clock struck midnight at Monday’s legislative session, the state Senate and House passed a balanced operating budget but failed to pass a bill that would generate enough revenue for ( Read more... )

Saladin Ahmed: "Is 'Game of Thrones' Too White?
As an Arab-American writing fantasy fiction, I’ve been asked more than once whether fantasy’s race problem is in a better place now in the Age of Martin than it was in the Age of Tolkien. My short answer is yes, but honestly, I think such questions are almost beside the point ( Read more... )

Read this: The War Against Youth.


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Before being escorted off the House floor for violating dress code rules, Rep. Rush called for an end to racial profiling and said that Luke 4:18 teaches us that “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, ( Read more... )

I've spent the last 48 hours--you know, really, the last few months--in a pit of helpless, hopeless rage and disgust and then I just read this and it kind of made me want to cry because of All The Feelings.
I have been getting pretty visceral lately with my anger and it comes up in strange ways, hot wide surges of fury as unthwartable as magma, ( Read more... )

So a while back I was making a fairly big deal out of This American Life's broadcast of "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory", Mike Daisey's wrenching monologue about his trip to China and the Foxconn factory where many Apple products are made. Which is now apparently either mostly or entirely untrue. Mike Daisey made it up. He made it up and then ( Read more... )

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Welcome to spring, everyone.

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As my sister says, sorry I'm not sorry.

Invisible Children has responded to the criticism. I appreciate the clarifications they offer regarding their finances--part of me thinks this info should have been more available up-front, but we can't all think of everything (though I think if you're asking for people's money in any significant amount ( Read more... )