Because we can never get enough thread. Pet and kid pics, and what games you’re playing and books you’re reading and what new kitchen appliance that costs more than a mortgage payment you have are all great subjects of discussion.
We’re not at the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end
Something huge happened today. The kind of thing that changes the nature of the economy, and Americans’ relationship with their government, and with the corporations that seem to rule so much of our world. Today is the day that a significant part of the Affordable Care Act took effect. Today is the day that companies …
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Your tax dollars at work
Today is World AIDS Day. Globally, more than 33 million people have HIV, and this day serves as an opportunity for people worldwide to unit in the fight against HIV. In doing so, VA medical centers across the country offer Veterans free confidential HIV tests. The Department of Veterans Affairs leads the country in HIV/AIDS …
Occupy OKC
ccupy OKC people at Kerr Park, OKC are reporting that eviction is imminent. I drove past the Bricktown police station earlier, and SWAT/SRT vehicles are staged forward there. Bricktown station is about a three minute drive from Kerr park. I don’t know what to make of this because we hadn’t had any difficulties getting permits …
Football Open Thread, by request
Manning Update
According to his lawyer’s blog, PFC Bradley Manning’s case will finally get an Article 32 hearing. It is scheduled to start on the 16th of December and run for five days at Fort Meade, MD. The Article 32 hearing for PFC Bradley Manning will begin on December 16, 2011 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The hearing …
Front Pager behaving badly
Well, I fucked up. No two ways about it. I could try to explain what I was doing, what I was thinking, what I believed to be the case, but none of that sounds like anything other than petty blame shifting when I write it out in the face of what I actually did. I …