Bombs exploded in Boston today. (More bombs were found and taken care of before they could go off, thankfully.) An eight-year-old boy was killed. When something like this happens, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with anxiety, fear, depression, and anger. It’s all too easy to forget about all the days when something like this doesn’t [...]
Things I think are more important than military build-up, war, and invasion: Keeping the poor housed and fed. Providing affordable/free medical care for all citizens. Making sure all public schools are well-funded and teachers are paid well. Helping unemployed people find new jobs and get training the might need for new careers. Making sure important [...]
If you haven’t watched Amanda Fucking Palmer‘s TED talk, watch it right the hell now: OK? Good. Now. I have a whole lot of thoughts about this, not all of them potentially coherent, but I’ll try and be as sensical (you know, the opposite of nonsensical) as I can be. I love Amanda’s talk, I [...]
DC Comics has hired SF author Orson Scott Card to write a Superman digital comic. This has launched a lot of vocal protest and sparked petitions for DC to not employ Card. I’ve signed a petition and have spoken out against Card online. Why? It’s not for his views on homosexuality, abhorrent as I may [...]
No big surprise, but I’m very pleased with how the election turned out. Not only was Barack Obama elected for a second term, but the Democrats have a majority in the Senate, a number of women senators were elected or re-elected (including Elizabeth Warren, who I think is dynamite, and Tammy Baldwin, the first openly [...]
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