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- 2009-12-09 Open Letter to Whole Foods Chapel Hill
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- 2010-05-04 0653 Why settle for a geek § "Why settle for a geek when you could have a professional?" more...
- 2010-04-29 1101 Our Visit to the Josh Depository § Taking Josh to the Hughes Center went reasonably well yesterday; here's the (more or less) full report... more...
- 2010-03-14 0903 Josh Smith, Agent of Entropy § It's been nice not having Josh in the house for the past few weeks. We put something away or clean something, and it generally stays put away or cleaned. Organization gradually increases.
Josh made up for lost time last night. more...
- 2010-01-28 1638 The Eternal Residential Placement Catch-22 § We just heard back from Residential Services Inc, a group home in Chapel Hill which came highly recommended and with whom I spoke last night for about half an hour. more...
- 2009-10-24 1239 Josh Biathlon § Today's Josh Puzzler Challenge: Find the missing object. more...
- 2009-10-20 2131 what I learned about ValueOptions today § I had previously visited the web site for ValueOptions, the company which
deniesapproves Medicaid and Health Choice benefits in North Carolina but had been unable to find any way of contacting them electronically. Today, however, I went poking around more methodically and found... more... - 2009-09-05 0823 Balancing without a paddle § So here's the kind of thing I mean about needing daily balances. more...
- 2009-08-25 0654 Joshercize your way to rage and exhaustion § Josh's first morning back at school went about as well as I expected, which is to say not very well at all. We're fully expecting a call from the school any minute. more...
- 2009-07-04 1602 Joshing in the Men's Room § The lack of posts has not been due to lack of events but rather too many to keep up with. Here's what happened today. more...
- 2009-06-10 0640 No relief in sight § I don't really have the focus to write a proper blog post about this (except to note that the first sign of trouble came near the end of the day on Friday in the form of a phone call and that we waited all weekend and Monday with no news), but I should at least post this "team update" email which more or less explains what has happened. more...
Issuepedia Commentary
Click on the "specs" link for commentary, not the headline; the RSS feed generator needs some work.
- Please forgive me for the actions of extremists I have never met who commit acts of violence that I have never advocated
2010-08-18 “As a white male Baptist, it is my duty today to denounce the violence perpetrated by Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, who yesterday attacked the police headquarters in McKinney, Texas, in a heavily armed but ineffectual assault involving a high-powered rifle, road flares, "gasoline and ammonium nitrate fertilizer."”
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- Topics: privilege prejudice
-- User:unknown 2010-08-18
[?]- What Obama Got Wrong About the Mosque
2010-08-13 “Perhaps there is some form of Islam that could issue from this site that would be better, all things considered, than simply not building another mosque in the first place. But this leads me to a somewhat paradoxical conclusion: American Muslims should be absolutely free to build a mosque two blocks from ground zero; but the ones who should do it probably wouldn’t want to.”
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- Topics: Ground Zero Mosque Islam
-- User:unknown 2010-08-13
[?]- Bleachgate
2010-08-10 An account of a forum interaction: the author tries to call attention to the known dangers of a particular "alternative" "therapy", and is essentially attacked. Although a moderator steps in and tries to calm things down, the author's forum topic attempting to address the general area of anti-skepsis is deleted.
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- Topics: anti-skepsis alternative medicine Crohn's disease Crohn's Forum
-- User:unknown 2010-08-10
[?]- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle
2010-08-01 “By last Wednesday, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan had branded Assange "irresponsible". And by Friday, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, had accused him of "having blood on his hands". Their charge was that WikiLeaks has disclosed the names of Afghan collaborators who may now be subject to reprisals...”
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- Topics: WikiLeaks Afghanistan mainstream media Julian Assange whistleblowing
-- User:unknown 2010-08-01
[?]- Google Tells FTC Enforcing “Hot News” Would Create a Hot Mess
2010-07-21 “The draft document includes proposed changes to intellectual property laws to protect news entities from aggregators (such as Google News), a loosening of anti-trust laws to allow media outlets to collaborate on paywalls and other methods of charging for the news, as well as a proposal for government subsidization of the industry.”
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- Topics: mainstream media Google US Federal Trade Commission protectionism monopoly war on the internet freedom of speech intellectual property
-- User:unknown 2010-07-21 [?]
