Kenneth Sutton's aide-mémoire
[I]t makes sense for us to take a leadership role in ensuring that people are treated the same. —President Barack Obama, January 28, 2010
(via Towleroad.)
So, if a state’s laws say it is legal, and a couple’s church says it’s moral, and a same-sex couple gets married, why isn’t their marriage recognized by the federal government? And why aren’t you working to change that?
Sully becomes a stand-in for all of us—the post-industrial, post-blue collar office worker stuck in our civilized ways. We are effectively paralyzed too, chained to our desks and DSL lines, far from Eden, far from nature, far from the magical thinking of yore.
via Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Avatar is about transformation.
Ed Gillespie, former counselor to President George W. Bush, whose wife Cathy has been friends with the Roves for 20 years, said: “It’s always sad to see a marriage end. These are two very good people, who came to a not-easy decision. But they care a lot about each other, and they love their son. And they’ll work through it.”
No, working through it usually refers to what you do in order to stay married.
After World War II, large corporations went on acquisition binges and turned themselves into massive conglomerates. In their landmark Harvard Business Review article from 1980, “Managing Our Way to Economic Decline,” Robert Hayes and William Abernathy pointed out that the conglomerate structure forced managers to think of their firms as a collection of financial assets, where the goal was to allocate capital efficiently, rather than as makers of specific products, where the goal was to maximize quality and long-term market share.
World Toilet Organization WTO is a global non- profit organization committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide.
A tip of the hat to Robert Paterson.
I find Robert Reich’s blog a consistent source of thought-provoking posts. The latest:
[I]nstead of asking when the recovery will start, we should be asking when and how the new economy will begin.
I’m playing my regular Wednesday gig on Radio Riel today with music of the Silk Road, including a particular focus on Persian and Arabic music. I hope you’ll tune in at http://music.radioriel.org.
Radio Riel is an internet radio station that started in Second Life. I do weekly programming as well as DJing for events in Second Life.
If you’d like to let Jim Douglas, governor of Vermont, know what you think of his act, he has a contact page on his website.
I’ve been hoping/waiting for this to happen. Harper’s magazine reports that Spain is going after the architects of U.S. torture: John Yoo, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, and Doug Feith.
The Spanish criminal court now may seek the arrest of any of the targets if they travel to Spain or any of the 24 nations that participate in the European extraditions convention it would have to follow a more formal extradition process in other countries beyond the 24. The Bush lawyers will therefore run a serious risk of being apprehended if they travel outside of the United States.
Now if they’ll only add Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush.
(tip of the hat to Sully)