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Health Care Reform and Choice

30. November 2009

Despite all the coverage on the news, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out exactly where we are in the process of health care reform. Very few of us have time to follow all the developments, let alone read through entire bills. It’s helpful to know the basics of the process: the House [...]

Poly in the News

25. November 2009

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Much has been made on the internets about the CNN.com article that came out recently on non-monogamous relationship models. It’s a good article for the most part, fairly balanced and well-written, with a brief look at poly as one relationship alternative. The central question of the article, “Is Monogamy Realistic?”, can’t truly be answered in [...]

It’s not rape-rape, part two

15. October 2009

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So, apparently, if you want to work for certain government contractors (aka Halliburton or KBR), upon employment you must sign a contract which says rape allegations will be handled by private arbitration. Oh. Ok, sure, I will sign that. Because I completely trust that a company who has bothered to include a rape clause in their [...]

Not really rape-rape??????

2. October 2009

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I am surprised. I am disgusted. I am shocked, really, that anyone would actually stand up in defense of a man who has been convicted of raping a 13 year-old girl. As a woman whose life was profoundly altered by being coerced into sexual behavior as a child, I am utterly in a state of disbelief that people [...]

No, you can’t get your death panels in maple…

27. August 2009

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…but you can get them in blood. (A response to Laurel’s post on health care reform) Federally run healthcare. Federalized. Healthcare. I sat down today, and I wondered- what does the government already handle related to healthcare, that they don’t fuck up? I am not a rich person. My family is not rich. Neither I, nor my [...]

Can I get my Death Panels in Maple?

18. August 2009

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Yes, it is a health care tirade. It’s been coming for awhile. It’s just that it’s taken me awhile to figure out my own thoughts in the midst of all this yelling and screaming and, well, let’s be blunt, flat-out, fucking lying. But last night, in the middle of a rainstorm that I couldn’t sleep through [...]

Failure = Succeeding Beyond Expectations

6. August 2009

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Or Fox News rewrites the dictionary. By Laurel From Alternet.org: Last night, Fox News a clip aired of a woman at a Philadelphia town hall meeting over the weekend berating Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) about health care reform. “What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. … And you want us to believe that a government that can’t [...]