Current Events

Straight from the President – Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform.

Bad headline for an interesting study.

Challenge vs. skill, showing "flow" region.

Great talk about overcoming creative barriers and getting stuff accomplished.

She and a few other women had brought posters to the town hall, but they rolled them up after being booed and berated by the crowd. When the woman unrolled one to show to a journalist, an angry man in the crowd rushed over and tore it up. A poster of what, you ask? Rosa Parks. When the woman moved to take her poster back, the police stepped in and escorted both parties from the building. But only the woman made national news.

Chart includes legend for "Pie I have eaten" and "Pie I have not yet eaten." No word on "Pie eaten by others."

Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a Tea Party google group. Martin told the group: "We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of energy and lots of anger. This is for CNBC." She then asked: "So, where are the big events this week and where can TPP best be represented on the news?"

The AARP fact checks the current debate on health care reform and cuts through the misinformation and fear-mongering.

Hawking himself had this to say to his…concerned supporters…at Investor's: "I wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

They're back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country.

“It is almost impossible to describe the level of suffering,” she said. Eastern Congo’s rape epidemic, she added, “is just horrific.” Mrs. Clinton used her unprecedented visit — she is the first secretary of state to venture into the war zone here — to unveil a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence, a problem she called “evil in its basest form.”

Great post; lots of insight into the current issues.

Sweet. Dunno how we could swing it to get one of these.

Sweet. Dunno how we could swing it to get one of these.

Well known travel photographer gets threatened with arrest for photographing Coke Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. As has been mentioned here numerous times, photography is protected under the first amendment, and there are no laws against photographing buildings in public places.

"In fact, the "All Your Problems Is Because Of Your Fats!" mentality ubiquitous among healthcare providers,* which results in millions of fat people being treated for obesity when there might be a more serious medical problem causing the obesity,** is the real untouchable subject when it comes to the debate about healthcare and fat. " I know for a fact that my respiratory problems were overlooked for exactly this reason – I have some sort of nodule causing my shortness of breath; for years my doctors have been telling me to lose weight to fix the problem. Weight is NOT the cause.

Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform.

"We profess to being shocked at one or another of these outlandish crimes, but the shock wears off quickly in an environment in which the rape, murder and humiliation of females is not only a staple of the news, but an important cornerstone of the nation’s entertainment." — One of the few discussions of the crazy guy that shot women at the gym that isn't filled to the brim with misogyny and victim blaming. Women are not obligated to date you, dude. If you can't get a date, it isn't a woman's fault.

CAF-certified expert docents interpret the world-class architecture along the Chicago River. Marvel at Chicago’s soaring towers while enjoying a 90-minute, narrated river cruise. This tour spotlights more than 50 architecturally significant sites where you will discover a new perspective on the city.

What you see at the top, side, and bottom of this page is my basic prototype for a clampable/bendable flash mount. In my initial posting from earlier in the week, I was calling this the "DIY Flexible Flash Mount."

Netflix's slide deck on workplace values and culture.

Interesting. I can't tell if they lump reading under "other leisure" – that would make a difference to me.

It's so unfair! You're in trouble again, just because you called your uncle – or rather, your new stepfather, Claudius – a usurping git. It's true, though. Your real dad was SO much better than that guy. Too bad he was found mysteriously dead in the orchard a couple of weeks back. Anyway, your mother (who was, incidentally, looking quite something today in a sparse leather number, er…) sent you to your room, and here you are.