this post: http://mevennen.livejournal.com/828534.html?view=6007926#t6007926 was very interesting to me. A good perspective of how the NHS works in Britain, debunking the myths we hear in the US.

This, of course, is nothing new to me.

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I love these guys. A very intelligent discussion equating the drug war with a war on the underclass.
David Simon used to be a Baltimore crime reporter, and went on to become the writer and producer of The Wire.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/watch.html

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I'm reproducing this, because these are exactly my thoughts on prisons. The U.S. prison system needs an overhaul ( Read more... )

I am really happy that it looks like Obama won, yet, for me, it is a bittersweet victory. Because it looks like all ballot propositions on banning gay marriage will pass.

As I'm looking at the provisional results, it seems like Obama might win this election!!!

A dream come true.

I am reproducing this article in its entirety because it is so beautifully written, and I don't want to risk losing it ( Read more... )

This deserves to be reposted in toto ( Read more... )

I am copying this whole article by Jaron Lanier in here, because I want to make sure it is being kept for posterity. I don't want to rely on a weblink that might expire. This article says basically what I've been wanting to write for the past couple of months, as a reaction, in partticular to staunch atheists like Dawkins. All words that follow   ( Read more... )