The house is voting today on the Haley vetoes. The senate will vote tomorrow. You can watch here: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/video/videopage.php?chamber=H List of vetoes here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/07/07/2344499/haley-issues-budget-vetoes.html#storylink=misearch Veto 1: Destroy the Arts Commission – Override 110-5 (FUCK YEAH) Veto 2: Destroy EPSCOR Funding (Research at Universities) – Sustain 70-45 Veto 3: Destroy Sea Grant Consortium (Research at Universities) – Override …
Tag Archive: education
Jul 09 2012
Help me save South Carolina, the arts, and my mom
Over the weekend, the governor, Nikki Haley, destroyed the South Carolina Commission for the Arts — the cut was such that the 20 people who work there cannot show up to work today, can’t even go into their building, because of liability issues. The arts in South Carolina brings in $9.2 billion and creates 78,000 jobs …
Sep 19 2010
Richard Dawkins Welcomes Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity. He’s an enemy of children, whose bodies he’s allowed to be raped and whose minds he’s encouraged to be infected with guilt. It’s embarrassingly clear that the church is less concerned with saving child bodies from rapists than with saving priestly souls from hell. And most concerned with …
Sep 12 2010
On being number 11
I’m working from my phone, just got to South Carolina, haven’t got internet, so forgive any wonky formatting. I just read a piece by Thomas L. Friedman about a “Newsweek” article that ranks the US as the eleventh best country to live. I wonder sometimes if the rest of the world gets bored of us …
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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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