http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d/ron-howards-call-to-action-from-ron-howard-and-henry-winkler

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THIS: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/diamond-and-kashyap-on-the-recent-financial-upheavals/?em is a fairly clear analysis of the last 10 days.  It's also a quick read; I recommend it.

I'd also like to recapitulate a comment left by one of the reader's below the article itself;   Why not just borrow from the Pentagon?  A week's ( Read more... )

11 hours, 20 minutes.  

Somebody at the New York Times actually made me happy for a change.  (For those of you who have missed my rants, the NYT has a long history of angering and disgusting me, particuclarly with its attitude toward sexual violence.  But I digress.)  The following excerpts are from an article by Nicholas D. Kristof entitled "The Weapon of Rape" from last ( Read more... )

So, an Oklahoma State House Representative by the name of Sally Kern recently gave a speech regarding the evils of homosexuality.  In addition to comparing homosexuals with "terrorists and Islam" (gays are worse), her key points included  God's disapproval of "that lifestyle" and that, "No civilization that has supported gays... has lasted more ( Read more... )

This news item made my stomach turn: Cassandra Hernandez, a female Air Force airman was raped, reported her attack and then subsequently became a court-martial defendant herself.

The story goes down like this: Hernandez was at a party, where she was drinking. She says that three male airman raped her. She went to the hospital and filed a report ( Read more... )

Please, no one ask me how it went.

After tomorrow afternoon, it will not exist for at least three weeks.

Please.

Is it more acceptable for a man to be gay than for a woman to be a lesbian?

Please, someone pick me up from Bradley at 4:30 on Sunday, January 14? Please, please, please? There will be money. I am also open to other suggestions for modes of bribery.

On the subject of small steps forward...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070600606.html?nav=ft_

::bounces, grins, does a little dance::