I wrote this silly, sappy thing. Care. Care hugely and deeply and largely and until it hurts. Care until you talk and research and rant. Write pages of blog posts and 140 characters of dissent. Protest and change things, because when you care enough, why the hell wouldn’t you want to change things? The world …
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Nov 13 2012
Your Waffle Fries
[Content note: aggravated homophobia] You might remember when Chick-Fil-A was in the news a few months back. WinShape, the ‘charitable’ arm of the corporation had been donating to anti-LGBT groups for a while, but Dan Cathy, CEO, had just reaffirmed his inability to understand the meaning of charitable in a few paragraphs of biblical-family-and-tradition nonsense. …
Nov 13 2012
Bad Psychic Gordon Smith
Alright, admittedly “bad psychic” is redundant, but this morning I got a comment on my old blog from a post I did about seeing a psychic where I used to work: Ashley, people do not pretend its a gift. It is a gift. Because you do not have the gift is why you respond in …
Nov 10 2012
Ron Paul: Corrupt
Ron Paul, hero of wackaloons everywhere, was just determined to be one of the most corrupt Congressmen according to a new report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The report says Paul “double-billed” his travel expenses a number of times over the last decade, meaning he may have been reimbursed for the same flights both …
Nov 09 2012
Skepticon: Come Say Hi!
Kate here. I’m at Skepticon today! If you are too, come say hi. I like people very much, and I’d love to meet you. I look very much like my picture (scroll down on the right side of the page), and my nails are painted bright yellow. Especially come say hello if you want to talk …
Nov 07 2012
Over half a million views
I know it’s small potatoes to most of the people on this network, but I’ve officially passed 500,000 lifetime views on my old WordPress site and this site. Not a bad marker for my third blogging birthday!
Nov 07 2012
Election: Good News from Around the Country (and some bad)
Same-Sex Marriage: Maryland and Washington voted to uphold laws that legalized gay marriage, Maine voted by referendum to legalize gay marriage, and Minnesota rejected a constitutional amendment to define marriage as one man, one woman. California Criminal Law California failed to end the death penalty, but revised it’s overly harsh and prison-crowding three strikes rule …
Nov 06 2012
Election Liveblog
I give up on trying to get real work done, I’m just going to have to give in to the election addiction. Updates will be here! 12AM Some are too close to call, but it appears right now that all the pot and gay things are going the right way. 11:38 Colorado legalizes pot yeyah …
Nov 05 2012
The Dodo Bird Verdict
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the exact shape doesn’t matter,’ it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no `One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it …
Nov 05 2012
Klout: Free Stuff from Burt’s Bees
I work in social media and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, I follow my Klout score (and other people’s Klout’s scores) with more attention than strictly necessary. Let’s blame my love of numbers. With my busy-ness in grad school my number has dropped from a high of 74 to my current score of 69. In any event, …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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