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Kalamazoo’s non-discrimination-ordinance amendment passed yesterday by a 2 to 1 vote. (I could not vote for it on account of not living in the city proper.) The ordinance bans discrimination in housing and public accommodations based on real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
I actually first learned of this proposed ordinance [...]
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So Here Is an Irony
A few days after my last post (in which I recapped the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, Part I, for your health and enjoyment), I was admitted to the hospital with primary insomnia of unknown cause. I had not slept for eight days and was seeing things. And by “things,” I mean “mostly [...]
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Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
This does answer one question I’ve had for some time: if the loons on the Right really are as loony, ridiculous, nonsensical, illogical, and just plain silly as they appear to be, why are they still around??
I mean, birthers? “Teabagging”? “Obama’s death panel”? Are they SERIOUS?
I fear [...]
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Professor Gates’ interview with The Root on his bogus arrest
Professor Gates’ arrest for having the temerity to enter his own home provides, among other things, a great illustration of what, exactly, white privilege is. So many white people tend to confuse white privilege with socioeconomic privilege, then insist they have no “white privilege” because [...]
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Now We Get To It
As expected, private insurance companies nibbling away at public health care.
No surprise here. No one really expects tigers not to eat meat. The insurer’s behavior is totally expected, normal, and natural for what they are, which are large private companies attempting to maximize profits on a model of “insurance” that cannot and [...]
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By which I don’t actually mean “converting to Buddhism” (though as I get older I seem to become “more zazen, less anything else”), but rather “dramatically overhauling my ownership of large piles of crap.” This is something I have wanted to do since I got out of undergrad, but since I’d consigned myself to [...]
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Justice Souter Retires
CALLED IT, as soon as I realized he hadn’t picked clerks halfway through April. He was always last to pick, but April is too long to wait even for him.
(I have the jealous. He’s going home to a cabin in New Hampshire with no Intertubes or telephones and where people leave him the [...]
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Although I bitch about it, there are days I’m really glad I do civil defense, not criminal defense. There are days I’m utterly grateful for the luxury of being just another private citizen with just another personal opinion I feel totally justified in voicing to anyone who will listen.
Lately, most of those days have [...]
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I’m reading the transcript in Sanford United School District v. Redding, oral argument of which took place today. I am also taking notes. They are, as usual, snarky and amusing. Says me.
Redding, in case you don’t recall, is the case in which the eighth-grader was strip-searched in search of ibuprofen she didn’t actually have.
Any oral [...]
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David Gorski settles Jenny McCarthy’s hash. Or he would, if McCarthy’s hash wasn’t so tenaciously unsettleable.
I, however, am hung up on a related topic: the idea that McCarthy not only “cured” her son’s autism, but thinks that this is a good thing.
I’ve had a high-functioning autistic in my circle of best-beloveds for [...]
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