A Goodbye
It has been so long since I’ve produced original content at this blog that you could certainly be forgiven for not realizing I was still here. A goodbye may seem somewhat redundant, but I’m the kind of person who likes closure.
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Events Responding to House’s Attacks on Planned Parenthood
By now, you’ve inevitably heard all about the U.S. House’s vote to block all funding to Planned Parenthood. This is a major threat to reproductive health, and would result in devastating cuts that would limit access to all kinds of care from pap smears to STD tests to cancer screenings to birth control. This is [...]
...read moreArizona Funding Cuts Cause Patients to Be Dropped From Transplant Lists
In further news that the U.S. residents among us can be unspeakably proud of, the state of Arizona has, thanks to budget cuts, stopped funding some life-saving organ transplants for patients who cannot pay for them themselves. The result is that those who cannot come up with the money to fund a potential transplant — [...]
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Happy Birthday, Chally!
Today (her time!) is the birthday of our very own and very fabulous Chally! Here’s to hoping, Chally, that this next year is as awesome as you are. Please accept this humble offering of the thing I assumed you would enjoy most in the world — David Tennant with a cute little kitty cat: Leave [...]
...read moreCholera Outbreak Worsens in Haiti
PHOTO: A woman hold a small child, who receives IV treatment for cholera in St. Marc. Image provided by Partners in Health, with more available here. At this point, you’ve likely seen news of the cholera outbreak in Haiti. As of the NY Times’ latest report, there have been over 900 deaths, and experts are [...]
...read moreNew Report Shows Trans* People Experience Huge Gaps in Health Care Access
Earlier this month, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care (pdf). Reliable statistics on trans* people are notoriously difficult to come by, and among those that exist, many are outdated and/or derived from very small sample [...]
...read moreReconsider Columbus Day
In the U.S., today is the National Observance of Columbus Day. While perhaps the least celebrated of all U.S. public holidays, its continued existence and observance is incredibly disturbing, as the video above by Reconsider Columbus Day notes. Transcript: The black and white video features a number of alternating unidentified individuals facing the camera and [...]
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Thursday LOST Roundtable: What They Died For
Spoilers below the image! This week on LOST, a candidate is finally chosen, Smokey continues his murderous spree, and Sideways Desmond continues his creepy maneuvering. Share your thoughts on the episode and remaining predictions in the comments. But no spoilers for the finale!
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Happy Birthday, Malcolm X
I’m getting to it late in the day, but it remains worthy of notice that today would have been Malcolm X’s 84th birthday. Renee has written a wonderful tribute to the great revolutionary, activist, and leader. Be sure to go check it out.
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7-Year-Old Girl Killed By Detroit Police While Sleeping in Her Home
Trigger Warning for graphic descriptions of police violence and gun violence. Aiyana Stanley Jones was 7-years-old. On Sunday morning, she was asleep on the couch in her family’s home. Aiyana is now dead. She is dead after the home was raided by police. Police, searching for a murder suspect, threw a flash grenade through the [...]
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Thursday LOST Roundtable: The Candidate
Spoilers below! This week on LOST, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse decided that they wanted to alienate every last one their fans — and it worked! We vent our continued rage below. Feel free to express your own anger in the comments (or talk about other LOST things, if you feel like it), so long [...]
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