Dec
31
The email said:
40 million people in the world are infected with HIV and that number is rising daily. The majority of these people do not have access to life-saving treatment.
Here is something simple you can do to help fight a problem that affects us all…
Bristol-Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS every time someone goes [...]
Sep
13
The Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration released its final verdict on Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Guilty.
11:00 AM, Press Conference, Camp Democracy (Constitution & 14)
12:00 Noon, Delivery of Verdict to the White House
Full text of the verdict in PDF.
An unprecedented Commission of Inquiry has found the President of the [...]
Aug
27
I was looking at my dissertation today, wondering if I can yet make a readable book out of it. Now that I’ve got a little distance from what was an agonizing process (at least until the last bit, when I actually started enjoying it), it seems better than I thought at the time. Today I’m [...]
Feb
01
I somehow made it all the way through the State of the Union address last night. Much as I disagree with the Bush administration, I even found him unusually appealing.
I actually had the thought, “Well, maybe most of this administration’s ugliness is Cheney. Maybe Bush means some of what he is saying here.” I [...]
Dec
19
This NOW press release is only one of many on Waxman’s report, but I want to do my part to get this out there. Read the complete report at http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf
Just as a side note - does anyone stop to think of the basic fact that abortions in the USA increased during Bush, decreased during Clinton, [...]
Aug
02
This study seeks to apply the insights of discourse analysis to the epidemic of signification surrounding the virus, marking out the traits and terrain of an emerging discourse.