First, this wasn't a school event, it was sponsored by Youth in Government, so the comment had nothing to do with the school itself. Second, the tweet did not mention the school and no one can claim she was representing the school, so outside of the potential to disrupt the educational environment, the principal has…

You could try OKC instead. Growing city, good economy, low cost of living...also, we have an NBA team. :)

Anyone else lose things when they upgraded? I had a news app that I deleted long ago reappear with a weird, offset icon and a folder of apps disappeared.

That and the bureaucrats from the bench comment don't match up with what he said. Cain is a power-hungry, hypocritical, jackass with the policy vision and imagination of a four-year-old, but portraying him as somehow unable to put his sentences together when the excerpted transcript demonstrates otherwise is silly. …

So what's the line? You're saying its not OK to objectify men, but that its not as bad as objectifying women? What about the value of the individual being objectified? How does this level the playing field? Why is one OK and one not?

I'm not saying its inevitable, nor am I defending it as good. I'm fully in agreement that these women (all women, actually, and men too) should not be judged solely by their physicality. My only point was the contradiction between condemning one instance of objectification while participating in another.

The occupying women are appealing to minds, but they're doing so with physical presence (hence the "occupy" bit). Physicality is a key element of their strategy, and a galvanizing element given the way certain bodies have been treated during the protests. So we can't easily separate ideas and bodies in this…

Other people have responded to the similarity, and I'll leave those answers to stand for themselves. Male privilege is obviously a problem, but objectification is not a justified sociopolitical response. Male privilege is a system of power, not built or maintained by any specific person, but socially and…

Dear lion, your mouth looks awfully empty.

Scratch that, apparently I've been on the guest network all morning.

Right now I just keep getting a message that the update server cannot be contacted. :(

FWIW, this may the first openly gay ordination, but there are plenty of gay and lesbian pastors in the PC(USA), and not all of them have felt the need to hide their sexuality. I can think of one pastor in my wife's former presbytery who regularly brought his partner to social events with other clergy. Yay for steps…

Socialized medicine makes it a lot easier to get effective treatments adopted throughout the system of care. By virtually all measures, the Cuban health care system is superior to the United States'. Slightly longer life expectancy, lower child mortality, lower infant mortality, more doctors per capita, universal…

Federal politicians can send mail to their constituents for free (its called "franking", but non-profits and religious organizations pay the same rates as everyone else.

Assuming the business model is about advertising, there are good reasons to believe a more devoted fan is more likely to act on the basis of advertising than a more casual fan. First, a more devoted fan is more likely to see repeated advertising messages which would not only have mere exposure effects, but also make…

I got out of a parking ticket once because the cop had left off one digit of the license plate. I didn't actually go get the ticket dismissed, I just didn't deal with it in anyway.

It Takes a Worried Man. Found it by chance in a clearance bin at an outlet mall while on my honeymoon. A couple of weeks later, wife and I had to travel several states apart for two weeks. Read the book in a matter of hours on the first night of the trip. Got online immediately to find out what happened after the…

Wunderlist is pretty and all, but until you can do something as basic as a recurring task, it's a no-go. I know they've got it in line for the future, but, c'mon.

I did this last night and it worked like a charm. The one catch I had was it kept asking for a username and password. Proper credit to the Javox post, but enabling the guest account on Windows fixed it.

@blyan-reloaded: You'd think. Coming back through Detroit from Europe in 1997, I was stopped at customs because the agent thought something in my bag kind of looked like it might have been a knife. It was a five-inch stone obelisk from, of all places, the Vatican. On the other hand, one of my traveling companions…