The online journal, notebook and playground of HFM

Let's see – who one this civil war last time? Uh, yeah, the liberal progressives won it. Sure, dude. Bring it. We kicked ass before.

Jane's original manuscripts, digitized. Don't bother me, I have a lot of reading to do.

Burying the lede in this article – her manuscripts go online. And some academic thinks her editor did a lot of work on the last two published novels. Whatever.

You'll need all of these. I thought I had a good list, but no. Not at all. This is definitive.

Color picker tool.

Got the wrapping shadows working with minimal extra markup(You need the first child to be a container element like a header, hgroup or a div). Oh and they stretch. Webkit only for now, although I'm sure Firefox could do this trick as well. Edit: I've uploaded a revised version based on @kennedysgarage version that works in Opera and Firefox now. – A snap by ajcates – Forrst

Calculations by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other independent fiscal experts show that the $1.1 trillion cost over the next 10 years of the Medicare prescription drug program, which the Republican-controlled Congress adopted in 2003, by itself would add more to the deficit than the combined costs of the bailout, the stimulus and the health care law. … At the same time, most Republicans are calling for the permanent extension of all Bush-era tax cuts, which would add $700 billion more to the deficit over the next 10 years than President Obama and Democratic leaders have proposed by continuing only some of the lower rates.

"Over the past few weeks I’ve watched several video contributions for the It Gets Better project, and while this is not a scientific assertion, I do feel comfortable in making the generalization that an overwhelming amount of the stories I’ve heard inevitably follow a trajectory in which the gay person in question moves away from their hometown — and almost always to a larger metropolitan city where gays are known to migrate. This emerging subtext is kind of impossible to ignore considering such an important piece of fine print. It’s like, Hey! It gets better! But only after you leave your family behind and run away from that horrible place where you grew up." – Norman Brannon has some thoughts about how to improve stuff now for gay kids.

"Charles Koch, whose wealth Forbes magazine calculates at about $21.5 billion, argues in his letter that “prosperity is under attack by the current administration and many of our elected officials.” He repeatedly warns about the “internal assault” and “unrelenting attacks” on freedom and prosperity." – Really? Who the hell is prosperous right now in America? Because those are the folks we need to be investigating for white collar crime.