WikiLeaks. If you are at all informed, you’ve probably heard of the site. Maybe you have no idea what they do, or you do, and you just aren’t interested. Well, if you believe like me that the First Amendment was first for a reason, you should be interested. Credo Action is circulating a petition to save the site from what is tantamount to official oppression. See below the text of the email they are asking me to send to you, my dear reader. Continue reading
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I think I like my bank
6 OctRemember the problem with the duplicate lease payment? I just got a response to my inquiry with my bank (Chase) and it seems that they will refund all overdraft fees caused by that unauthorized transaction as soon as the payment processing company’s refund posts.
That’s a policy I can support. Sure, they will wait until the reversal comes through. That only makes sense. After all, I could be blowing smoke just to try get overdraft fees removed. But since I am not blowing smoke, the bank is going to make me whole on this mess. I like that.
Noblesse oblige
2 AugNoblesse oblige is the motto of the National Honor Society. But before I ever heard of NHS, I knew “noblesse oblige.” I learned it from a teacher in the sixth grade. I came up through school before “TAG” (talented and gifted) was well-known, maybe before the term existed. But my teacher recognized something in me.
Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University
18 JunFemale Genital Mutilation at Cornell University | Slog | The Stranger, Seattles Only Newspaper.
There is so much disturbing about this story. A doctor at Cornell University is routinely preforming surgical procedures on very young girls to reduce the size of the clitoris. I have always had reservations about the ancient, and questionably ‘necessary’, practice of circumcision in males. But female clitoral shortening? My Gods, how can anyone believe this is appropriate? Why is it done? Well, apparently too large a clitoris will lead to ‘abnormal sexual development’. Continue reading
An Aging Trans Woman 