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Monkey Inequities
Aug. 3rd, 2010 10:46 pmTransgendered kids' summer camp. What a lovely idea! I think a lot, if not most, kids go through a period where they're uncertain about gender, and might like to try being the opposite gender for a while. I certainly did, although it was just a temporary thing with me, and in the end I'm as happy being male as otherwise. I've known people who just went to pieces because they couldn't act the way they felt, which is a horrible shame. I was fortunate to have an open-minded family and supportive friends. I think if people made less fuss over gender roles we'd all be happier anyway.
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If you wondered how the $700 billion "stimulus fund" was being spent, here's the report. I figured most of it had to have been completely wasted when Obama came to Columbus to tout its results, since all they've done with it here is to tear up and rebuild perfectly good stretches of road and sidewalk, seemingly chosen at random. We've gotten nothing but traffic jams and disruptions from it. If we're the poster child, I can well imagine how it's being spent in the rest of the country.
My two favourite examples:
• $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus
• $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
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So, unnoticed amidst all the sound and fury, Congress actually did something right - Alonzo Cushing finally got his Medal of Honor.
If you ever visit Gettysburg, two of the guns that mark the position of Cushing's battery have little dents all over one side of the barrel, like ballpeen hammer marks, which I'm pretty sure is the result of iron canister shot having been fired into those guns at close range. I've always kind of suspected those are Cushing's actual guns, since a nearby battery fired point-blank into Cushing's position as they were overrun.
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If you wondered how the $700 billion "stimulus fund" was being spent, here's the report. I figured most of it had to have been completely wasted when Obama came to Columbus to tout its results, since all they've done with it here is to tear up and rebuild perfectly good stretches of road and sidewalk, seemingly chosen at random. We've gotten nothing but traffic jams and disruptions from it. If we're the poster child, I can well imagine how it's being spent in the rest of the country.
My two favourite examples:
• $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus
• $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
*****
So, unnoticed amidst all the sound and fury, Congress actually did something right - Alonzo Cushing finally got his Medal of Honor.
If you ever visit Gettysburg, two of the guns that mark the position of Cushing's battery have little dents all over one side of the barrel, like ballpeen hammer marks, which I'm pretty sure is the result of iron canister shot having been fired into those guns at close range. I've always kind of suspected those are Cushing's actual guns, since a nearby battery fired point-blank into Cushing's position as they were overrun.
