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Thursday March 16, 2017 · 9:53 PM PDT

2017/03/16 · 21:53

...because every single mom needs an aircraft carrier in her backyard and a wall blocking Mexico in her garage.

Right?

Run for the hills!!!

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Friday February 24, 2017 · 8:21 PM PST

2017/02/24 · 20:21

More than anything,, they fear the media.

Yep yep yep yep

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Friday February 03, 2017 · 4:48 PM PST

2017/02/03 · 16:48

...and the hits just keep on coming.

Notes from the Women's March On Washington

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Thursday February 02, 2017 · 10:51 AM PST

2017/02/02 · 10:51

Over the next few days I’ll be collecting notes here on a much older story — my trip via bus from Houston to Washington DC for the Women’s March on Washington. This blog is mostly musings about some of the conclusions; I hope to do a similar one for the Science March in Washington DC on Earth Day.

One of the big advantages for this trip was that there was enough interest that buses were chartered to travel to DC. It’s a rather grueling journey of 20 hours there and back, but the timeframe and the physical closeness brought new ties and new friendships. In retrospect, I think this is actually one of the more important things from the women’s march; that expansion of our network to include fellow activists.

Those of us who went on the bus now have a private Facebook group. This is where we discuss political activities (I can’t participate in many of them since almost everyone on the bus is from Houston and I’m from Dallas which is over 250 miles away.) Specific actions are suggested by members and it’s more comfortable to post political articles in this group than it is to post in my regular feed (the expectation is that social feed posts allow you you engage more playfully while a political feed can be full of material that you find outrageous.)

Character

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Tuesday January 31, 2017 · 10:45 PM PST

2017/01/31 · 22:45

...his response to tragedy only confirms what we think about his character and (lack of) empathy.

Open Carry Texas: Agents Provocateur

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Wednesday November 13, 2013 · 2:33 PM PST

2013/11/13 · 14:33

My diary of yesterday inspired an evening's worth of musings. "Open Carry Texas"'s seemingly obsessive "road rage" display in the first 10 posts I saw on their Facebook page was nasty enough that I saw at least one NRA member take them to task. As I returned to the page this morning to review them, I stumbled across posts that indicated they are deliberately setting up stunts to provoke law officers into arresting them and to draw attention to themselves.

Continued below the Orange Whassadoodle.

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Tuesday November 12, 2013 · 7:52 PM PST

2013/11/12 · 19:52

The "Texas Open Carry"/"Moms Demand Action" has taken a predictably ugly turn with the TOC group engaging in bouts of what could only be described as Internet Road Rage. Both groups have had their chance to engage the media and their followers, but the response to the incident has been telling.

The Moms have taken the "high road", mentioning the article once and then moving on to other topics on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/...

The Texas chapter has posted news stories and so forth about the incident: https://www.facebook.com/...

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Sunday September 08, 2013 · 9:55 PM PDT

2013/09/08 · 21:55

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Thoughts on crossing the Rubicon

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Sunday September 08, 2013 · 7:14 PM PDT

2013/09/08 · 19:14

The dissertation is in the hands of my committee.

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Sunday August 11, 2013 · 10:36 AM PDT

2013/08/11 · 10:36

I was rather surprised at the number of comments on my previous diary, which talked about news stories saying that some Goodwill stores are paying disabled workers as little as 4 cents per hour and that 11% of the workforce is not even paid minimum wage. The news stories did not identify how disabled the workers were or how it was determined that they should get this wage. The discussion that followed was interesting to me, and I decided to see what other information there was about companies that hire the disabled. It turns out that Walgreens has been mentioned in this light recently.

...mentioned in a GOOD way.

Some companies are finally discovering what many of us knew; that the disabled can be better employees: http://www.csmonitor.com/...

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Saturday August 10, 2013 · 5:48 PM PDT

2013/08/10 · 17:48

No, that's not a typo. Here, in America, they are paying disabled workers 3-4 cents per hour.

I used to donate to Goodwill, but they've just lost all of my good will.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/...

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Sunday August 04, 2013 · 2:47 PM PDT

2013/08/04 · 14:47

While I'm aware that there are medical conferences and academic conferences and engineering conferences that focus on disability issues, I had never imagined that anything like an exposition or convention aimed at the disabled and their caregivers exited. But in the course of hunting up information for my research, I came across their announcement and made plans with a friend of mine to attend.

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Run for the hills!!!

Yep yep yep yep

Notes from the Women's March On Washington

Character

Open Carry Texas: Agents Provocateur

Gun Rage Online

IAN: Chores -- oh noes! Monday, Sept. 9, 2013

Thoughts on crossing the Rubicon

Disabled Workers: continuing the dialogue

Goodwill paid disabled three cents per hour

Ability Expo Houston