[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Crying All The Way To The Bank
- Have you ever noticed how these discussions about male brains and female brains usually produce weird caricatures of the most extreme types of men and women we may have met in our lives and then present those as the essential nature of ourselves?
The men in them are cold calculating machines except for wanting fellatios and food and violence, and the women are jellylike mountains of feelings upon feelings, with nary a computer in sight, who only want to be taken care of, have babies and new clothes, romance and connections? Why would anyone be interested in seeing themselves depicted in such terms?
- Rep Roy Blunt in his own words — Opposes Coverage for Missourians with Preexisting Conditions
- [In this enlightening YouTube video, I learned that no one ever acquired a preexisting condition except by neglecting themselves. Well, that's me told. --L]
- Digby: The Democratic Strategist Is Shrill
- I don't think anyone would call William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira radical leftists. Indeed, they pretty much define middle of the road. So when they come out with something like this, people should probably pay attention [...]
Aside from the moral and legal error, Obama has obviously made a terrible political mistake in continuing the Bush era unconstitutional national security policies. Had he fought them, he would be in a position to tie these people up like pretzels explaining why that position is ok, but social security is unconstitutional. He not only guaranteed that these awful assaults on the constitution would become institutionalized, he lost a powerful weapon to thwart his political enemies. It's impossible for any of us to argue that he's scrupulously protecting the constitution because he isn't.
- Digby: What's The Problem?
- …I have thought for years that this was a good idea. The government should pay for medical school up front and then instead of facing repayment of these big loans, (necessitating charging huge fees in their practice) doctors could instead pay it back by going on salary for the first few years of their careers. It seems to me that this would hold down health care costs, allow doctors to get plenty of training at a reasonable cost and allow them to pursue the fields in which they are interested or gifted instead of the ones that will help them pay back their enormous debt before they die. It's worked pretty well with the military.
- Check Out the Gall on That Guy
- It takes someone really special to be considered an asshole among rapists.
- Creative Office Design
- Did you notice how many of them are nightmares of inaccessibility? If not – and I mean this gently but firmly – perhaps it's time to re-examine some privilege you might be looking with.
- All Those Healthy Eating “Rules” are Just Guesses, Really
- s.e. smith recently posted a photo of a “5 a day” tag that came on some asparagus she bought. She felt, and I agree, that those tags are a form of food policing – instructing people what they “should” eat. The corollary, of course, is that if people do not follow these food guidelines, their unhealthiness is their own fault. s.e. explored some of the problems with these educational campaigns over at This Ain’t Living, but I want to highlight another problem here.
That problem being, namely, that NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. From a recent article at Scientific American…
- A dot.
- “A line is a dot that went for a walk. ”
- Paul Klee
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