tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247457338388773522012-02-16T14:16:47.699-05:00Blogging from the pale blue dotGlomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.comBlogger8621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-63361040382876590812012-02-03T09:22:00.006-05:002012-02-03T14:25:08.160-05:00

Richer, smarter, and funnier minds than mine have explained why it's stupid for Susan G. Komen for the Cure to politicize women's healthcare by ending grants to Planned Parenthood that provide breast screenings to underserved American women. In short, cancer prevention activities make up some 16% of the patient care Planned Parenthood delivers, compared to 3% for abortion services. Math from

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Newt Gingrich says his best-case scenario is that next January he'll walk from the inauguration ceremony to the Oval Office and sign the repeal of Sarbanes-Oxley (MSNBC video, skip to 9:05).Dude's candidacy gets hilariouser and hilariouser.

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My job application-to-interview ratio seems to be about 6:1. I'm on track to apply for 72 jobs this year and interview for 6.By "apply" I mean carefully select positions that interest me, that I appear qualified for, that I reasonably believe I have a good chance of getting, and that I make a good-faith effort to tweak my resume and compose a solid cover letter for. I don't mean shotgunning:

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Who is Jessica Buchanan, and what about her caused the President to give the go-ahead for a Super Special Black Ops Navy Seals operation to kill nearly a dozen militant pirates to get her out of Somalia yesterday, just before the State of the Union address?Maybe she's this Jessica Buchanan.EDIT: Or maybe not. Later news reports say that she's local, a student at Valley Forge Christian College (

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"Excitotoxins"? This is my word of the day. My made-up word of the day:Don't you have to cook grains in order to get their nutritional benefit?This question presupposes that grains such as rice, wheat, barley, and oats are helpful to the body's nutrition. Actually, they are not. The fact that they must be cooked to be edible is the first clue that something is wrong with them. They are bland to

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I think it bears repeating that being un- or under-employed is incredibly stressful. I have a great undocumented, unofficial safety net of friends, family, and a partner who buys my groceries; but that's all it is, a safety net. I'm not building reserves. And I've had to accumulate debt on my credit card again because last month I had an only somewhat expected, but totally uninsured loss at my

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The CNN blog headline reads, "Gingrich's daughters defend him ahead of ABC interview with ex-wife." I was going to make a comment along the lines of, well, of course they're defending him. It's perfectly reasonable for a man's children to stick up for him. Parents generally treat their offspring very different from the way they treat a spouse, and no child shares the perspective, knowledge, and

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. . . and they get more of them. A study, published in The Lancet, covered the years 1995 to 2008 found:Abortion rates were lowest in Western Europe -- 12 per 1,000 -- and highest in Eastern Europe -- 43 per 1,000. The rate in North America was 19 per 1,000. Sedgh said she and colleagues found a link between higher abortion rates and regions with more restrictive legislation, such as in Latin

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I'm not sure why I don't see this news item more prominently on local news sources:Philadelphia Police are investigating the death of a man who plummeted from a balcony at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Center City onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway around lunchtime Tuesday.[...] Witnesses told police of a loud boom or possibly a gunshot around 1 p.m., before the man fell from a top floor of the

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Looking at the credentials I've hung on my wall -- B.A. diploma, J.D. diploma, certificate admitting me to the bar of Pennsylvania -- I see that every last signature on them is that of an older white man. My other credentials, too; everything going back to my high-school diploma and all the academic awards between is signed by only older white men. It makes me feel that I've earned my credentials

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Captain Mike Cram, Philly P.D. 26th District, showed up late to speak to a town meeting in Port Richmond last week. When residents expressed their concerns that 26th District officers are slacking at addressing both violent crime and nuisance problems in Greater Port Fishington, Cram and A.J. Thompson of the District Attorney's office told them to forget the police and simply engage in self-help.

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Quietly reported yesterday, though not announced on either company's website, a private equity company called Falconhead Capital, LLC, has bought Rita's Water Ice. Rita's had been owned by a private equity group since 2005. So though this was merely paperwork (and the exchange of an undisclosed but likely eight-figure amount of money) it's still a good opportunity to talk about what it means when

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Daycares are horrible things.I imagine I am projecting my own abandonment issues.And I recognize my luck and privilege that my household was financially able to opt out of the American welfare-to-work system that President Clinton signed into law.

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Occupy Philly appears to be going out not with a bang but a whimper. What was accomplished in other cities by tear gas, pepper spray, and mass arrests will be accomplished in Philadelphia by rain, cold weather, and political out-maneuvering.

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Let me tell you what I gotThat nobody's gonna take awayFrom this woman

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you looked into my bloodshot eyes and saidis it too soon if I call youSunday

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MSNBC reports breathlessly that a dozen-odd American mayors participated in a conference call last week, but that the mayors "deny colluding on 'Occupy' crackdowns." The call was part of near-weekly verbal communications that members of the United States Conference of Mayors regularly hold, and the conversation apparently naturally turned to the various Occupy actions happening in everyone's

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Channel 6 answered my not-so-rhetorical question from yesterday, "[I]f the Occupy movement is truly so anarchist and leader-less, why doesn't a contingent separate itself out, splinter away, and offer to negotiate separately, away from the bad-faith consensus-blockers?"One group of Occupy Philly protesters spent the day preparing for confrontation, another faction was meeting with city officials

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If I'm a person who lives and works in Center City Philadelphia, and I support the proposed renovations to Dilworth Plaza, does that make me a tool, a fascist, or a member of the 1%?The proposed renovations seek to address some real problems with the current space. Right now, it's a paved wasteland with pedestrian barriers, blocked views, and multiple elevations that break up the space into many

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So Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park encampment is being bulldozed away, and any reasonable voices that would have conceded leaving Dilworth Plaza here in Philly have been blocked by individuals who are either stubborn-headed or acting in bad faith or both, and I imagine it will compel a Zuccotti-like showdown at City Hall any day now.And of course Mayor Nutter is taking the opportunity the

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Photo: a human blastocyst, formed about 5 days after a spermatazoon has fertilized an egg cell. Or, in Mississippi, an American citizen with a full complement of civil rights.So both the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor in Mississippi have gone on record supporting passage of the fetal personhood initiative in that state. The state attorney general says he'll enforce it, too; and

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Still stumbling along, seriously underemployed. Not making my overhead this month, and believe me, my overhead is pretty low already. Spending time when I can in free seminars and panels covering my preferred areas of practice.Interviewed for a professional position at a prestigious local university back in August. Never heard back, and only learned that they selected another candidate when I

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Mitt Romney, born in 1947 but who did not serve in Vietnam, doesn't want the Iraq war to end (MSNBC). How many of his 5 sons, born between 1971 and 1981, have served or are currently serving in the armed forces?Survey says: zero. Remember? While other men of my generation served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm[1], Mitt Romney's sons were serving their country by serving their dad's political

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Feel that wind rushin' by

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The B110 bus, which runs between [New York City neighborhoods] Williamsburg and Borough Park, has been run by Private Transportation Corporation since 1973, under a franchise with the city. [...] Even though a private operator runs the bus, it was awarded the route through a public and competitive bidding process.But women sit in the back while men sit in the front. The only females allowed in

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Within 5 minutes of each other, these 2 links came across my screen this morning:A very large (no pun intended) majority of American workers are overweight or obese or have a chronic health problem (WSJ)."Ranch Dressing And Other Delights," a podcast episode discussing a few of the most horrifying entries at Allrecipes.com, includes links to American culinary masterpieces like Taco in a Bag,

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Plowing through my to-do list after a 3-day conference, including following up with a potential client I should have naggedfollowed up with last week to see if they'll hire me (maybe they don't want to since I'm in only my second year of practice), signing up a client interview for later this week, and sending some free-information-but-not-legal-advice to an art student with a couple of copyright

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Quick note to say thanks to Cup O' Joel, Pine View Farm, and Delaware Liberal for their kind links to my "uncertainty" post last week: "uncertainty" means different things to different people, and declining to hire more staff because of "uncertainty" about future economic and legal conditions is nonsense when your company makes a billion dollars in profits every quarter.

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Looks like one for the RISKS Digest, to me:Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. [...] Unlike other cellphone makers, [Research in Motion] handles email and messaging traffic to and from its phones. When it encounters a problem, millions of

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The trope is that big businesses aren't creating jobs because of "uncertainty." Would someone please explain to me the nature of this uncertainty? GE paid no federal taxes in 2010 and its profits have regularly exceeded $1 billion per quarter. Private equity wizards, Tea Party financiers, and terror profiteers Charles and David Koch are (each or both, but at this level it hardly makes a

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Quite the tent city has sprung up in Dilworth Plaza. There's even a family-size tent for nursing mothers and their babies and toddlers. I feel a little regret that I'm not in a position to take part in Occupy Philly and that I can't yank my daughter from school and go on a camping trip to City Hall. But I need to keep hustling for work; and if I want to be available to help any participants who

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It's crazy how it all turned outWe needed so much more

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One of the city's innumerable film festivals is coming up soon. Convince me that I should make it the same full-contact sport that I used to. Or at least convince me which dozen films I should go see.Oooh, wait -- a new Coriolanus with The Tree of Life's Jessica Chastain and a lot of explosions, starring and directed by Voldemort? Holy cow, I'm not sure how you can go wrong with that, except by

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The previous two posts discussed some preliminary thoughts about how to prepare for the zombie apocalypseregular, if infrequent, services outages that happen in the mid-Atlantic due to weather. I've been promising to talk about how to start preparing if you're dirt poor. Here's how.First, decide what kind of preparation level you want your household to be at. Pick a number of days, which is

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So there are a few issues that need unpacking from yesterday's post. The big question is how to put together your magical one week's worth of emergency supplies if you're dirt poor. But before I answer that, I have to unpack another question: what kind of emergency are we talking about here?There are weather emergencies, there are civil unrest emergencies, and there are "PGW blew up my gas main"

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An MSNBC article covers a weekend conference where theologians discussed how to reconcile the concept of a god with the probable existence of intelligent, alien life. If there are some "125 billion galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars in each," then it seems much more likely than not that there are other civilizations out there with creatures who have free will and thus need some kind of

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One thing that just floored me during the Hurricane Irene scare -- for "scare" it was here in Philadelphia, an inland port city at the confluence of two rivers, not truly a coastal city -- I say, one thing that floored me was the fear, if not complete panic, and lack of preparedness I saw among some of my friends and neighbors. Here in the mid-Atlantic, we get a blizzard or a severe snowstorm at

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This week's Bloomberg Businessweek, page 10-11:[T]he notion that small business is the force behind prosperity is not true. [...] So let's revisit the home-office tax deduction, which costs the IRS $9 billion in [annual] revenue.And on 66-67:U.S. multinationals like Pfizer, Cisco, and Apple have parked more than $1.3 trillion in profit overseas, avoiding federal income taxes.You can't have it

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Welcoming 2012 inductees into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame:Such a sweet thingI wanna do everythingWhat a beautiful feeling

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Just one month left in this year's hurricane season -- how are you doing for emergency preparedness?I've had a few ideas percolating since Hurricane Irene hit Philadelphia in late August. On Monday I'll start with the first of three entries discussing issues around getting ready for inevitables.Thoughts? What kinds of topics should I cover? Are you expecting the big one any day now, or are you

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Are you reading this blog on a mobile device or a feed of some kind? Are there formatting issues? I am a ludditecheapskate and use an older BlackBerry, so I don't know what makes this blog look awesomehorrible on an Android or iPhone or other device. Sidekicks or whatever it is the young kids are using these days. And I have it set to give only a few "teaser" lines on my Google reader, but I

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Gah, my custody schedule changed, my daughter's school year and fall sports schedule began, and now I don't know where I'm going or what time I need to leave to get there. Thank christ for my desk calendar and my watch. Who needs Outlook and google calendars? Not this underemployed yet over-obligated lawyer. And don't get me started about this horrible kludgey third-party solution for my

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The NYPD's commissioner, Ray Kelly, told 60 Minutes that his counter-terrorism unit has the capability to take down an airplane if the issue ever comes up again (video 14:21, start at 5:30).What?Now I'm imagining the NYPD with all kinds of small-scale but highly advanced military technology. Pigeon-guided missiles launched from jet-powered, monkey-navigated, remote-controlled suicide helicopters.

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I do a lot of pro bono work, for a lot of reasons. I have to keep myself busy, so I don't leave the office feeling that I've done nothing but dick around on the Internet all day long. I need to continue training myself, so I do what I like to call self-CLE: any work product I generate for a pro bono client goes right into my personal library of forms I can adapt for a paying client later on. And

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Number of paid hours worked this week: 0.8Number of pro bono hours worked this week: 5.0Number of suits worn this week: 3.0Gah.Two of these pro bono hours included an "informational interview" -- right out of What Color is Your Parachute? -- with a couple of 2L's from a local law school. I guess I'm flattered that the career office (I presume) sent them my way, but I didn't have much

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No video; live recording from April, 1972:There ain't no place to go anywayExcept Philadelph-eye-ay

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Not having a decent, regular income is exhausting. Every single month I've been running out of money, for so many months I'm not even sure how long it's been since I had a cushion in my checking account. (Never mind that I had to give up the emergency funds in a money market account sometime in 2007 or so, because I couldn't keep the minimum balance the bank required before it would charge fees.)

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So I took off for about a 5-week vacation from blogging. Anything happen while I was gone?

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The New Yorker has just published a blow-by-blow account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. You know what still strikes me about the entire thing? Never mind how well the President has handled the debt-ceiling business over the past several weeks; dig the ">timeline around the raid:The next morning [that is, the morning of Friday 29 April], the President met in the Map Room with

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-7056499602060932052011-07-27T09:23:00.005-04:002011-07-27T10:31:51.632-04:00

Caught the theatrical revival of The Man Who Fell to Earth last night.God bless the 1970s.A question remains for me, though: whose stillsuits came first, Walter Tevis's or Frank Herbert's? The novel The Man Who Fell to Earth was published and Dune began its Analog serialization in the same year, 1963. I can't possibly be the first person to notice that Newton and his family on the home planet are

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-31923509061466583032011-07-26T13:08:00.007-04:002011-07-26T17:22:59.456-04:00

Drugs are rough.I'm more affected by Amy Winehouse's death than I probably should be. I tend not to be bothered by celebrity deaths -- I don't dig mourning someone you never knew personally, even if their art affected you deeply, though I do dig marking the passing of the life of a performer or creator who gave back to the world, like Paul Newman, or whose work formed the development of the

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Busy lately with a personnel shake-up at my law firm. Took a couple of days off to stay away from the office and have spent the past few weekends hanging with friends and family.I'd complain about the coming global economic collapse, but the horse I have in that race is inconsequential, to mis-use a metaphor. What I mean to say is that my assets and my stock market holdings are so small that a

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Way too many progressive-cause canvassers on Walnut Street in Center City lately. I encountered no fewer than 3 pairs between work and home yesterday. Bless their hearts, they can't possibly be meeting their quotas and I know they're not paid much. But though I hate to say it I sure do wish they'd move to another street.

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Slogging through a tedious to-do list today. Not helped by the transit situation last night after the Art Museum fireworks. I get that holidays are holidays, and transit shouldn't run a weekday, business rush-hour schedule on a holiday; but I sure do wish SEPTA had put a few more buses on the neighborhood trunk lines last night. The fireworks wrapped up shortly after 11:00, but we didn't roll

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Glomarization's CLE Compliance as of 5 July 2011:Annual Requirement: 11 Substantive, 1 EthicsCredits Completed: 6 Substantive, 4 EthicsCredits Required by December 31, 2011: 2 Substantive, 0 EthicsThe math isn't as goofy as it appears. Any ethics credits over the minimum are applied toward the substantive requirement. So, 4 - 1 = 3; 3 + 6 = 9; and 11 - 9 = 2.Happy to be in the end-of-year

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As I've explained a few times, most recently in March, pregnancy makes an American woman a second-class citizen. Pregnancy -- planned or unintentional -- is a life-threatening condition. Ordinarily, a person who takes on a life-threatening condition is never compelled by law to continue with that condition if they don't want to. The sole exception is when the life-threatening condition is

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Earlier this month, the San Diego Reader reported that Terence Malick sent an open letter to projectionists where The Tree of Life would screen, asking them to kindly take a few extra steps when they show his newest work. One website has posted a scan of what they say is an original copy of the letter, as well as couple of other examples of "Dear Projectionist" letters from 2001 and 1975. The

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Retail therapy, a matinée of Malick's The Tree of Life, and maybe some music tonight.

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Off to learn about menstrual extraction. Who knew these kinds of women's consciousness-raising and empowerment meetings were still going on?

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-79822792254017052092011-06-21T05:39:00.006-04:002011-06-21T05:39:00.123-04:00

So the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup and the fans who congregated after the match to congratulate their team on a good run and a fun season were overwhelmed by asshole rioters who trashed an area of town.Reminds me of the assholes who ruined the World Trade Organization protests in 1999 in Seattle.There, we had tens of thousands of ordinary people in the streets -- union members and kids

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I just canceled an interview for a job in Harrisburg. There was more than one reason. One, I would be on the train 20 hours every week. Even if I bought a netbook with my first paycheck or two, I don't think they'd be productive hours, considering how early and late I'd be on the train in order to be physically in Harrisburg during business hours.Two, the starting salary was so low that I don't

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-77592051925340787282011-05-31T05:05:00.000-04:002011-05-31T05:05:00.417-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-49201154229282657062011-05-27T08:14:00.004-04:002011-05-27T08:38:29.461-04:00

BBC Magazine article discusses the question of why a couple would get married after having kids, without suggesting the most obvious answer: for health insurance or legal or tax purposes. (Granted, marrying for the health insurance is perhaps not so obvious in a nation with socialized medicine.) But my point is that government- or authority-recognized marriage has only ever been an economic

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-42683175219628118632011-05-26T09:15:00.004-04:002011-05-26T09:21:41.254-04:00

An article at MSNBC discusses the problem of too much sodium in American diets, but gets to the next-to-last, below-the-fold paragraph before mentioning a huge way to reduce one's sodium intake: eat less processed food. Quit the TV dinners, quit the junk food, don't eat out so often, get out of the habit of "convenience" foods, and you'll get less sodium in your diet.A frozen dinner or

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-23645171189620673932011-05-26T08:53:00.003-04:002011-05-26T08:58:25.818-04:00

The arrest and pending extradition of Ratko Mladic to the Hague for trial on war crimes during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s is being seen as a major step on the pathway to Serbia's admission into the EU. That's great, but what is Serbia's economy like? The EU is currently stuck holding gazillions of euros in Greek debt that nobody in the world will buy. What will adding Serbia to the EU do to

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-19835593011452434262011-05-26T08:07:00.002-04:002011-05-26T08:20:11.432-04:00

The story of the Mayor of South Street, Part I (9:05):Part II (10:00):Part III (9:09):Fuck the American healthcare system that failed to get him the cancer medicine and treatments that he couldn't afford.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-51688140868922865502011-05-24T05:46:00.000-04:002011-05-24T05:46:00.137-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-9720158862598884482011-05-20T05:04:00.000-04:002011-05-20T05:04:00.542-04:00

When you live your life, it should be like . . . boom

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Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-85783028788368303112011-05-10T16:33:00.003-04:002011-05-10T16:36:42.734-04:00

Religious zealot newspaper Di Tzeitung published an apology for doctoring the Situation Room photo.That's what they apologized for: doctoring the photo, against the clear proscription from the White House against manipulating the image.The statement speaks for itself.

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Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-56257092999021535752011-05-09T14:22:00.004-04:002011-05-09T14:33:10.537-04:00

Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D.-N.Y.) "no ride list" for Amtrak (Reuters) is stupid.His reasoning is that bin Laden had been planning to blow up some train tracks on or around the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. So there are at least two reasons why Schumer's proposal is stupid:One, it's closing the barn door after the horses have run out. Bin Laden is now dead, his plans discovered and publicized. I for

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-604926104987700232011-05-09T11:13:00.005-04:002011-05-10T16:33:46.419-04:00

Did you hear the one about the religious zealots who are so upset at women serving at high levels in the national government that they illegally wipe them out of official photographs in which they appear?Brooklyn's Hasidic newspaper Di Tzeitung printed, on the front page and above the fold, the White House's official photo of President Obama and his security team watching the bin Laden raid.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-71982845963571911062011-05-09T10:11:00.003-04:002011-05-09T11:02:44.729-04:00

The role of the namesake of this blog in a secret U.S. government project has been referenced in an article about wacky conspiracy theories that turned out, after all, to be true ("Sometimes They're Right" at The Daily Caller). Though I think I'm supposed to say that I can neither confirm nor deny that such an article exists.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-28137899430267156582011-05-09T09:50:00.005-04:002011-05-09T10:07:16.116-04:00

There are two ways to deal with a prospective client who doesn't hire you, and actually they aren't mutually exclusive ways.One is to say to yourself, Well, that's too bad. I wonder what I could have done differently to get that party to hire me. I think I did an honest evaluation of the hours it would take me to do the work, leaving off the self-education hour to make sure I do it right (because

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-24176155829430645892011-05-03T05:00:00.002-04:002011-05-03T05:00:03.299-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-15633122817262601412011-04-29T10:29:00.002-04:002011-04-29T10:32:59.816-04:00

The premise: you get a book with a single word, and that single word describes how you will die.Boom! And a Bear Comes Out from David Malki ! on Vimeo.

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Math day!In 2007, about 827,000 voluntary abortions were reported to the CDC (CDC.gov). In 2009, the population of the U.S. was about 307,000,000 souls, about half of them women and girls (Census.gov). If about 40% of them are not in the childbearing years defined as ages 15 to 44, then we have about 307,000,000 people x 50.7% are female x say 60% are age 15 to 44 = some 93.4 million women in

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-85696585475410359972011-04-26T05:35:00.002-04:002011-04-26T05:35:00.105-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-77214226609142351172011-04-21T10:01:00.003-04:002011-04-21T10:14:57.473-04:00

So it's Holy Week, and the anti-sex zealots have been out in force at the clinic where I escort patients.It's also my monthly "magic week," when PMS makes me fly into a righteous rage about things like drivers ignoring "No Turn on Red" signs even in the total absence of pedestrians at the intersection, or people arriving 2 minutes late to a meeting, or the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-34527576194013441162011-04-19T05:31:00.004-04:002011-04-19T05:31:00.101-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-68887415016136840822011-04-12T11:06:00.015-04:002011-04-12T13:54:13.630-04:00

Today being the anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, I was flipping through a slideshow on Life magazine's website and found this poster calling "Citizens of the Twenty-Fourth Ward" to a gathering at 38th and Bridge Streets, "On the Lot adjoining the Armory":Uh, what's that? "Bridge" Street in what comprised the 24th Ward in 1863? An armory at 38th and anything around, what, where

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-82735809122901974652011-04-12T09:07:00.004-04:002011-04-12T09:14:44.668-04:00

The 9th Circuit's results are in, and survey says: Arizona, because it is a state, is not allowed to legislate regarding citizenship, which according to the Constitution is something only Congress has the power to do.You can read the 87-page opinion (PDF), or you can read my plain-language explanation of their reasoning, from May, 2010.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-12222712593617807662011-04-12T05:07:00.001-04:002011-04-12T05:07:00.516-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-67303679588972302712011-04-11T09:46:00.002-04:002011-04-11T09:55:24.879-04:00

Best to start with the opening titles.

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I wouldn't say I'm having fun reading it all, so let's say rather that I'm feeling some validation that I'm not the only cinema enthusiast in this town who's had it up to here with the sad, sad state of independent, artistic, and repertory film in Philadelphia. From the Cinedelphia blog in the past few days:Prince Music Theater: EPIC FAIL - A festival screening of a Sundance award-winning film,

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-25716253886386856132011-04-08T16:00:00.003-04:002011-04-08T16:13:28.001-04:00

Q: How many anonymous complaints about bottles of unregistered beers does it take for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to shut down three bars with no notice or opportunity to be heard?A: One.Q: How many murders, violent assaults, and non-anonymous complaints about noise, trash, and disorderly conduct does it take for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to shut down a bar?A: Who knows?

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-92012023820964043282011-04-08T10:29:00.004-04:002011-04-08T10:38:25.908-04:00

I got nothin'.I've been putting out little work fires all week, nagging colleagues who have blown deadlines, and going so far over my minutes on my cell phone plan that they even sent me e-mail about it.I would say, "I can't believe they're shutting down the federal government over women's cancer-preventive healthcare," but I would be lying.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-90942403540648050232011-04-05T14:31:00.002-04:002011-04-05T14:35:24.610-04:00

Day late and a dollar short -- actually there won't be a City Council candidate at Driberally tonight, because DeMarco withdrew his candidacy a little over a week ago, though I only just heard. But! We'll still have beer specials and plenty of good company.Come for the beer, stay for the check.

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-68519641916446167192011-04-05T05:29:00.003-04:002011-04-05T05:29:00.388-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-79316876738109018742011-03-30T14:41:00.004-04:002011-03-30T15:05:55.604-04:00

A follow-up: four-year-old Emily Ruiz, an American citizen who was de facto deported because of the immigration status of her parents about three weeks ago, has been reunited with her family after being treated to a first-class plane trip from Guatemala back to her home in the U.S. (CNN).When officials prevented Emily's father from reuniting with her and took custody of her, they effectively

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-27981334765663234152011-03-29T05:05:00.000-04:002011-03-29T05:05:00.755-04:00

Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

Glomarizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05624293157927622360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624745733838877352.post-77546968115019239732011-03-24T09:32:00.005-04:002011-03-24T09:56:38.023-04:00

Fuck ICE, fuck Customs and Border Protection, fuck anti-"anchor baby" lunatics, and fuck everybody involved in separating a 4-year-old American citizen from her immigrant family and deporting her to her family's country of origin, Guatemala.The Ruizes embody the difficulties of a family divided by citizenship. Mr. Ruiz, 32, was born and raised in a small village outside Guatemala City. He came to

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Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

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(BBC.)Peter Bergen at CNN proclaims that U.S. participation in the U.N. no-fly-zone intervention in Libya is nothing at all like the American "operation" in Iraq in 2003. Instead, it's more like Iraq in 1990.But what if it truly is more like Operation Desert Shield and the ensuing Gulf War? We'll stop just short of toppling Gaddafi and his government? Then we'll let him sit for another dozen

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This is less government, how?SEC. 303. PROHIBITION ON TAX BENEFITS RELATING TO ABORTION.‘For taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this section--‘(1) no credit shall be allowed under the internal revenue laws with respect to amounts paid or incurred for an abortion or with respect to amounts paid or incurred for a health benefits plan (including premium assistance) that

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Drinking Liberally is a weekly social gathering where progressives talk politics and get to know one another. In Center City Philadelphia, we meet on Tuesday nights at José Pistola's upstairs bar, where there are drink specials from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And the more we tip the bartender, the more frequently he hands out free dishes of chips and dips. I hope to see you there!José Pistola's is at 263

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Best newsfeed ever: the CDC's food recall alerts. Your daily dose of E. coli O157:H7 contaminations and unlabeled potential allergens, ew. If this kind of thing doesn't keep you away from processed, packaged, and shelf-stable foods, I don't know what would.

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It's like shooting fish in a barrel, it really is.Remember when Gov. Bobby Jindal (R.-La.) gave the Republican response to the 2009 State of the Union speech, and he mocked funding for monitoring volcanoes, and then the Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupted a couple of months later?The GOP's federal budget proposal cuts tsunami preparedness and relief, and today -- basically as I type this --

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In honor of my applying for jobs in Dauphin and Berks Counties. I've been feeling my "10-year itch" to move to another city recently, but I swear the itch is referring to something like Chicago or Seattle, not Harrisburg or Reading:Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?

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