So, my financial aid was showing up in my account at school, covering tuition and enough to give me a nice little sum for taking care of some bills and so on. The financial aid director said that checks could…
Legality and Reality
Beyond Same Sex Marriage – Legal Recognition for Multipartner Relationships Very good article
Pull the Other One, It’s Got Bells On
Why women are poor at science, by Harvard president The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference, and discrimination is no longer a career barrier…
Types of Intelligence
For Those With Special Needs Children
Welcome to Holland I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.…
Funny
Ganked from metaquotes: From NASA’s Guide to Civilian Helicopter Safety: Basic Flying Rules: Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the…
Happy, Um – Is It Tuesday Already? Wow
I’ll blame my general fog on getting pretty much NO sleep from the time I woke Friday morning ’til I went to bed around 10:30 Sunday. Yep, that’s the reason. So—I didn’t think I would be going to GaFilk. I…
Navel Gazing
How do I reconcile treating people with respect with enjoying snarking at them when I think it’s deserved? Damn. I’m not sure that I can. Do I have to give up the snark? It’s possible that I should always communicate…
Life Interrupted
Plugged into it all, we’re stressed to distraction Today, we can do more. And do more, faster. And do more, faster, from anywhere, all the time. You can work at home or the coffee shop or even at the beach.…
Another Loss
Shirley Chisholm is gone.