I can haz gubenatorial election results now ( Read more... )

That is all.

Okay- you want some reasons: it is your civic duty, you really shouldn't complain about your elected officials unless you contribute to the election process, and in many states you get a sticker for voting. If nothing else, do it for the sticker.

Voting in Florida is always an adventure. I wasn't here for the dangling chads. That's probably a good thing. You see, I don't just live in Florida- I live in Palm Beach County, the epicenter of that particular storm. I don't think the states ever fully recovered from the voting scandal of the Bush/Gore election. So each year, much pressure is ( Read more... )

There is a discussion occurring in my head that has leaking into being a household discussion about how assumptions regarding people, specifically women, shape perceptions of their physical appearance ( Read more... )

The faces we have grown accustomed to seeing reporting the news from Afghanistan, if any local reporters are shown at all, are decidedly male. The typical image is a man, dressed in clothing not terribly different than the troops around him giving a concise report. Or maybe from Kabul Richard Engel will be shown in a button down and slacks ( Read more... )