… found this great little diatribe on a friend-of-a-friend’s Facebook profile.
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Last summer, in my first excursion here into politics, I wrote about the experience of hearing reason shouted down at a town hall meeting. I had gone there with my teenage daughter to speak for my hearing-disabled wife, who is unable to work and can [...]
So it’s been five weeks since school started. One midterm and one policy memo later, it feels like I’m really getting into the swing of things.
When I compare my experience as an undergrad at UT at the same point, I think I can point to many more things and say, “I didn’t know this before.” [...]
A few weeks ago, I changed my religious views on Facebook to “Pepsi.” Pepsi is by far my favorite soda: I prefer it over Coke, Dr Pepper, and every other soft drink out there. Then, I started wondering why that might be.
The first time I really drank Pepsi on a regular basis was in Junior [...]
Not much in the way of carefully reasoned opinion in this post except the following:
If those wealthy republican assholes in congress screw us out of affordable health care again, I will be very angry.
First things first: I uploaded 56 pictures of our Eurotrip to Flickr. You can check them out here.
In other news: after 60 years, Jimmy Carter has left the Southern Baptist Church over its “subjugation of women”. Quoth Carter:
At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, [...]
As seen on Reddit: Fox News identified South Carolina governor Mark Sanford as a Democrat, even though he is most definitely a Republican. Sanford disappeared last week, and his aides initially told the press that he was “hiking the Appalachian Trail” to blow off some steam. As it turns out, he was really blowing off [...]