Just saw the news that one (old, it's stated) plane crashed with a half-dozen or more of the leaders of Poland onboard. How awful, especially as they were on their way to honor the dead Polish officers killed 70 years ago by Soviet secret police ( Read more... )

I'm delighted our government and our President made progress on healthcare reform this week. Not a perfect plan (especially ticked at those patriarchal old Dems who demanded any abortion coverage come out -- not their call! division of church and state, old dudes!), but a beginning they can build on ( Read more... )

I was fortunate to have a few interactions with the awesome, amazing, salty and outspoken Liz Carpenter during my time in Austin. She was so extroverted and gregarious that, even infirm in her older years, she kept herself surrounded by crowds. Her niece is in Writergrrls, so Liz took an interest in our group. She wrote the forward to our POD, self ( Read more... )

Psychologist Dan Gilbert gives us an equation and talks about where the human tendency to underestimate leads us astray:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.htmlTED is a site for videos on from the annual TED conference on thoughts that are worth sharing. You could waste hours there ( Read more... )

I'm going to take a long lunch break to do this:

Emergency Rally for Health Care and Our Future
South Gate of the State Capitol
11th and Congress
Austin, TX 78701
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010, 12:00 PM

I got invited by MoveOn.org.

Spread the word!

Senator Teddy Kennedy's seat lost to a republican who posed nude in Playgirl. Lost the day after Martin Luther King Day, a week after an earthquake destroyed Haiti ( Read more... )

Today, through MoveOn.org, I gave money to the campaign of Martha Coakley, who's running for the seat vacated by the late Senator Teddy Kennedy. That so needs to stay a democratic senator to honor his memory and good works ( Read more... )

All Americans should be proud that our majority-elected leader is recognized for his positions on world peace. This is such an honor ( Read more... )

He battled brain cancer for years, and kept up with his politics until the end, it seems. He was very pro-universal healthcare, wow! Even way back when. Here's this clip from MoveOn.org where he talks about why. Very moving!

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/01/ge/index.htmlFrom The Salon, this article about how Charlie Rose (!) got media titans from FOX and NBC together and got them to cease the bitter feud between (despicable) Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. Not because one lied or one didn't. Or one caused damage to the other's reputation or not. ( Read more... )