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Life Skills 102 0

Life Skills 102

Schools sometimes offer “home economics” courses. And there’s the book Life Skills 101: A Practical Guide to Leaving Home and Living on Your Own, which concentrates mostly on financial matters. I suggest a course,...

Dynamic Taiwanese Animation about Wendy Davis' filibuster 0

Dynamic Taiwanese Animation about Wendy Davis' filibuster

As Madeleine Davies says, “Not only have animators depicted Senator Davis as Superwoman, but they’ve also inexplicably added hydraulic low-riders, electrocutions, ghosts and a t-rex to the already exciting proceedings. Is Ann Richards smiling...

Thoughts on the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling 0

Thoughts on the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling

In yet another ruling that will bolster the Republicans, the Roberts court strikes down DOMA. I’m in favor of gay rights but am disturbed that our political system gives us marijuana legalization and gay...

On the local option for transit funding 0

On the local option for transit funding

At the Bellevue forum on transit funding, Rep. Judy Clibborn described how a Republican legislator probably won’t support the local option for transit funding that is being considered by the legislature, HB 1954. According...

Is Andrew Cuomo another Barack Obama? 0

Is Andrew Cuomo another Barack Obama?

I read an excellent article in The Nation by Eric Alterman, “Cuomo v.s. Cuomo.” Alterman describes how Andrew Cuomo (current governor of NY and son of former governor Mario Cuomo) is socially liberal and,...