Archive for February 13th, 2006

An ADHD History Lesson

Monday, February 13th, 2006

I may be on the verge of going into activist mode; to the point that I’m seriously considering sending a membership check to CHADD or ADDA, or any organization that steps up and counters some of the madness that seems to be prevailing over both reason and science where ADD/ADHD is concerned. If I had […]

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Starting? It’s Already Here.

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This, says Kos diarist Maccabee, is how it starts. However, looking at how many of these stories I’ve blogged already — enough that I’d start a category for them if the McCarthyism Watch wasn’t already doing the work of compiling them — I think it’s safe to say it’s not starting. It started back when […]

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Masulinity as Memoir

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Rachel has recommended a few times that I read Michael Kimmel’s essay “Masculinity as Homophobia,” and was kind a while back enough to send me a link to a copy of it after my own searches yielded little more than abstracts. So, I printed it out and read it during one of Parker’s swimming lessons […]

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Seeding Up the Clock

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Speaking of “the Rapture,” some evangelicals are meeting to figure out how to hurry it along.

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Pet-sitting for Eternity

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This may be a joke, but JesusPets.Com is a site for christians to find non-believers to take care of their pets, post-rapture. I suppose they can use RaptureLetters.Com to send a reminder, in case the heathens sleep through it.

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