Hopefully this will help bring this humanitarian travesty to an end. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir may be charged with genocide, the Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations told CNN. The ambassador said Friday that the International Criminal Court has indicated to Sudanese officials that al-Bashir may be charged over the five-year campaign of violence [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by JM
In my mind, no. There’s a difference between ‘developmentally disabled’ or ‘mentally handicapped’ (for people who have Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, etc.) and ‘retarded’ (for people who are stupid). But, because I know and understand sensitivities around the term, I would never use the word ‘retarded’ around developmentally disabled people. But in [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by JM
I just spent 2 hrs waiting for a routine blood test. I stress waiting, because I didn’t actually get my blood drawn. I gave up when I did the math and realized I would have to spend at least another hour waiting. My doctor has outsourced simple bloodwork to a company called LabCorp. You can’t [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by JM
You know Barack’s going to take some serious heat for this. Read the video comments. It’s no secret that the nativists in this country aren’t too intelligent. If they had a few more functioning brain cells, they’d realize that expanding your mind’s capacity with additional mental challenges (such as learning a foreign language) when it’s [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2008 by JM
This is extremely cool. The guy used a lawnchair to build an airship that carried him 235 miles (from Oregon to Idaho) that was lifted into the sky by a bunch of helium-filled balloons. He periodically shot balloons with a BB gun to maintain the right altitude. He landed safely 9 hrs after liftoff.
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 by JM
Did you know that HIV-positive immigrants can not become US citizens? Did you know that the US is one of a handful of countries (including the Sudan and Saudi Arabia) that doesn’t allow visitors, much less immigrants, into the country who are HIV-positive (without special permission)? I didn’t. But now that I know, I’m outraged. [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by JM
It’s always been amusing to me that Fox News claims to be “fair and balanced”, when it is clearly anything but, but this gun is smoking so badly that there’s an air quality advisory in effect for a full 50 mile radius around their headquarters. The fact is that the people the network caters to [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by JM
This is the second installment on a series I’ve started. The crazy BART lady was the first feature. This guy is pretty old and shabby, but has an unusual relationship with his bushy, sullen cat. He’s about 60 years old, and would probably be about 5’9″ if he could stand upright. But years of carrying [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by JM
I remember a time when there was no guilt associated with eating ice cream. Or when I was oblivious to the darkness of a black woman’s complexion when estimating her beauty. And when I would happily agree with criticism of the U.S., feeling like I had allies abroad. Experience gives you wisdom. It also irrevocably [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by JM
