[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Action Alert "I have just received a plea for donations from Heather Corinna of Scarleteen, the feminist sex ed website. Scarleteen is the most popular sexual health website online; it specializes in providing free resources and [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Whose Team Is It, Anyway? "You know what I don't want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidized health insurance policies? That it's the price of reform, and prochoice [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The Not-Quite-Daily Teaspoon Report "Remember: the teaspoon is an indivisible unit. If you done some, you done a whole teaspoonsworth. Be proud of your acts, no matter how small they seem, because that's how teaspoons work: [...]
Unemployment Hits 10.2 Percent "Oops. Back in August, I said that I thought there was only about a 1 in 3 chance that unemployment would break the 10 percent barrier. I think it was a well-reasoned analysis, but sure did turn out wrong. "[...] if things indeed turn out to be symmetric, that would mean [...]
Wednesday Blogaround "This blogaround brought to you by Shaxco, who would like on this Veterans Day to thank all the people who have served and also take a moment to singly recognize the people who are discharged from service under the profoundly anti-patriotic Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. Donate to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund [...]
The Healthcare Clusterfucktastrophe Continues "None of the bills emerging from the House and Senate require insurers to cover all the elements of a standard gynecological 'well visit,' leaving essential care such as pelvic exams, domestic violence screening, counseling about sexually transmitted diseases, and, perhaps most startlingly, the provision of birth control off the list of [...]
Quote of the Day "[Trigger warning.] "'Somehow all we can do is take the statement from the victim. Take the statement from the alleged perpetrator and then throw up our hands because they are saying conflicting things. That's not how we investigate other crimes. … Predators look for vulnerable people and they prey on vulnerable [...]
The Anonymous Liberal: Why the GOP has no health care plan "The problem the GOP faces is a very simple one: it is impossible to translate their 'principles' into a functional plan. [...] "There are two fundamental problems we face with our health care system. The first is the fact that tens of millions of [...]
X3Studios Makes Abstract Wallpaper Creation Easy [Wallpaper] "If you're a fan of the abstract and grungy vector-based wallpapers floating around X3Studios is free tool for creating abstract wallpaper without needing a copy of Illustrator and a pile of stock images."
Raindrop's Universal Inbox Looks Awesome in Concept Designs [Inboxes] "Mozilla's Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission, but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook, and other conversations into one organized stream. "Andy Chung has made his initial [...]
Find Nearby Flu Shots with Google Maps [Google Maps]
Magnetiser Downloads Torrents When No Torrent File Is Available [Downloads]
Confusion Over Where Money Lent on Kiva Goes – NYTimes.com
The Pursuit of Harpyness: Sodom and Gomorrah and Uniban [TRIGGER WARNING. --L.] "A group of college students at Bandeirante University (Uniban) in Brazil performed what can only be described as a Biblical skit on Sunday. When Geisy Arruda showed up to class wearing a minidress and “heavy makeup,” hundreds of her fellow students launched into [...]
Roeder: I Was "Defending Innocent Life" "I just love this rationale and the rage-inducing parsing contained within. He's not a TOTAL FUCKING HYPOCRITE, you see, because he's specifically pro innocent life, so Dr. Tiller doesn't count. "Not that Dr. Tiller had broken any actual laws or anything (making him actually and technically 'innocent'). But Tiller [...]
Shakesville: The Not-Quite-Daily Teaspoon Report "Seeing how much people were uplifted by that incident, it occurred to me: we could use more of that. So I had an idea, which I ran by Liss this weekend, that maybe we could run a thrice-weekly post in which people could report acts of teaspooning*, however small, that [...]
Geek Feminism: Doubting the Daubing Philosophy (Melissa Draper) [Draper connects the dots brilliantly: If the Open Source community wants to significantly increase its market share, it must increase gender diversity; if it wants to increase gender diversity, it has to start by admitting it has a problem. --L.] "Basically; If you throw enough mud at [...]
Digby: Goldilocks Was Betrayed "All day long, I kept hearing the argument that pro-choice Democrats are going to have to compromise because Pelosi just doesn't have the votes otherwise. But the truth is that she doesn't have the votes without the pro-choice caucus either. Why isn't it just as reasonable to say that Stupak and [...]
American Medical Association Calls For Repeal of DADT
Don't Ask, Don't Give: the gAyTM is officially shut down "We've talked about the fatigue of being jerked around as a constituency, now several of my fellow bloggers have had enough and I've signed on to the effort launched by Joe Sudbay and John Aravosis of Americablog. [...] "…'please sign the Petition and take a [...]