I'll be on a plane on the way to the US, to pursue a career in democratic politics.

I'm excited, and not a little bit scared.

The website for social security?

broken and has been for an extended period of time.

Firstly, I'm writing this entry on my shiny new macbook pro. After a decade of wandering through the wilderness of PC critical security flaws, I have returned to the fold of mac users, and boy is it about time! I LOVE my new computer ( Read more... )

OK, I admit it, I like movie scores ( Read more... )

You know you've been neglecting your LJ when you start getting reminder emails from people on your friends list who want to know if you've suffered an accident and lost all your fingers ( Read more... )

The Nation ( Read more... )

when a teacher fails 2/3 of the class on an assignment, saying that "clearly most of you just didn't understand what was being asked of you" then that is a failing of the teacher, not the students.

(for the record, I happily fell into the third that didn't fail)

the recent parallels drawn by many pundits (eg Paul Krugman) abou the similarities between the ratcheting up of rhetoric pre-Iraq and the current administration talk about Iran, I offer two (in my opinion) very concerning pieces of linguistic semantics ( Read more... )

so a friend of mine told me yesterday "now you can't say you're in your early twenties anymore ( Read more... )