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Friday, January 19, 2007

Tired Baby, so tired

Beer @ Lunch Makes Chris a tired boy. YAAWWWNN....

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/19 at 02:06 PM
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

The True Cost of War

How sick are we as a country that we will spend this money on a war but completely scoff at the idea of spending it on the health and wellbeing of our fellow citizens? It disgusts me.

Annual cost

Iraq war: $200 billion

US universal health care: $100 billion
US universal preschool: $ 35 billion
US Security (9/11 Commission): $ 10 billion
US cancer research: $ 6 billion

Immunize world’s children
Against measles, whooping
Cough, tetanus, tuberculosis,
Polio, and diphtheria $ 0.6 billion

Source: New York Times

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/18 at 09:22 AM
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Paula Abdul

If she was not completely drunk during this interview she needs to rush to a doctor immediately cause something is seriously wrong with her medulla oblongata.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/12 at 03:02 PM
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

I hate...

...the first week of classes! This is enough to drive anyone to alcoholism. If you’ve ever worked in higher education, you know what I’m talking about.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/09 at 04:33 PM
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Education and Health

The link between more education and better health is old news in social epidemiology. The reasons why this association is so consistently found are still unknown. But it appears that the main criticism of this link, that education simply serves as a proxy for wealth or income, is losing ground. A recent article in the Times succinctly summarized the mountain of research addressing this mystery. This is welcomed news for me, since I seem to have taken the “scenic route” on my trip through higher education. In the end, with the amount of years of education I will have clocked, I better live to be 100. But will my astronomically high cholesterol prove to be the monkey wrench in the works? Time will only tell. But I’m happy to report that I have been religiously taking my Lipitor everyday.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/04 at 08:47 AM
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Happy Anniversary

After 6 years I still couldn’t image spending my life with anyone else (Lord Knows I’ve Kept my Eyes Open!).

I lurve you. You’re fabulous.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/03 at 12:15 PM
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Happy New Years

I celebrated this New Years without annoying crowds, outrageous cover charges, and a wicked hang over. I stayed home with my hubby watching a marathon on the Food Network. It was relaxing. It was enjoyable; a perfect beginning for a new year in which I’ve pledged to be more mindful. That’s it. More mindful. How wonderfully simple…

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/02 at 09:51 AM
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

How-dee

Another holiday season has come and gone and I’ve seem to have lost the spirit. What used to be an exciting time of year for me has become a sort of chore or yearly exercise. Perhaps it is my final loss of innocence or maybe simply an unwelcome chore in a very busy time for me. Either way, I’m glad it is over.

I did get a chance to take advantage of the long holiday weekend and let my hair down at the Castle. This time I got to take two castle virgins, which is always interesting. I also got to get a snapshot with “The Senator.” The Senator is a sort of icon at the Castle. His unusual story was told in Creative Loafing a few months ago. Of course Jessica (on left) enjoyed him greatly. Who wouldn’t?

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/27 at 10:03 PM
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

The appropriate response

I quite like the song too, which is strange since I usually want to vomit everytime I see Bono.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/16 at 06:23 PM
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Like most unknowing Americans, I was under the impression that the technology for a 100% electric car did not yet exist. After watching this movie it is very clear that this sort of misinformation was exactly the goal of oil companies, General Motors and the Bush administration. This documentary is even more powerful if understood within the current political context of the Bush administration. For instance, most of the key players in the White House have all gained wealth directly from the oil industry and have used their positions in our government to ensure the profitability of that industry for years to come. But at what cost? What will average American citizens pay in the health and environmental costs brought about by our continued dependence on oil? Unfortunately our current elected government doesn’t seem to give a damn as they unrelentingly undermine a truly progressive energy policy. After all, these are the people whom we’ve entrusted.

Andrew Card (Former Secretary of State) served as vice president of General Motors.

Condoleezza Rice (Current Secretary of State)

Dick Cheney (Vice-President) was chief executive of Halliburton Oil Company.

Donald Evans (Secretary of Commerce) held stock valued between $5m and $25m in Tom Brown Inc, the oil and gas exploration company he headed.

And the President himself has both personal and family fortunes forged out of the oil industry.

If you haven’t seen Who Killed the Electric Car, go buy it now

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/15 at 08:49 AM
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Hmmmm....

I’m still trying to decide if this…

is the other side of the coin from this…

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/07 at 10:07 AM
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Well done Mr. Bush

In yet another attempt to facilitate his lunatic right wing agenda, our shameless president has decided to appoint the former medical director of a religious based organization that opposes family planning, including the use of birth control, as the head of all the federal government’s family planning programs. No doubt taking advantage of a chronically distracted populous, President Bush continues his assault on the civil rights of Americans in an attempt to fashion this country more to the liking of his Christian fundamentalist base. Sound like a paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy? I wish. The decision to appoint Eric Keroack, former medical director of “A Woman’s Concern,” represents such an attempt. How is a doctor who opposes assess to contraception, propagates misinformation regarding abortion, and supports an abstinence only policy, qualified to lead the country’s family planning programs that provide services to a diverse population of women? If this pisses you off go HERE and sign the petition and listen to this.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/06 at 10:50 AM
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Wedding Bells

This weekend I’ll be traveling deep into the heart of Dixie in order to attend “my best friends wedding.” Husband and I plan on driving, which means we will have to drive through the much dreaded South Carolina. I lived there for a year when I was 13 just after we evacuated Miami after Hurricane Andrew. I have to say South Carolina is a shit hole. Now, I’m sure there are nice places and all that jazz, but over all it was a miserable place to live full of backwards people. This was especially true for someone with interracial parents, like me. I vowed never to set foot in that state again and I don’t plan to, directly at least (my feet will be in the car as we speed through). Let’s just hope that I don’t have to go to the bathroom as we drive through or get stopped by some good ol’ boy cop.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/28 at 10:51 AM
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving I am thankful that Republicans had their asses handed to them and were fired for the shitty job they’ve been doing on our behalf. This fact has brought me joy for weeks now.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/23 at 09:57 PM
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Monday, November 20, 2006

A day of rememberance

Today is “Transgender Day of Remembrance.” A day to remember and celebrate the lives of a misunderstood and marginalized group of individuals who disproportionally suffer from the prejudice of society. Last night I watched an excellent documentary that showed me another aspect of life where our country has not shown an ounce of compassion for those who are different. The documentary is titled Cruel and Unusual and explores the treatment of transgendered individuals in U.S. correctional facilities. Gay and lesbian activist have made some progress in extending their activities and organizing under a more inclusive umbrella of “queer” activism that forms bonds with transgendered and intersexed human rights groups. But I feel that not nearly enough is being done. I’m particularly concerned about the health of transgendered populations. There is no question that they suffer disproportionally from physical and mental illness. Some alarming statistics on violent crime estimate that transsexuals have a 1 in 12 risk of being murdered compared to the 1 in 18,000 for an average person. Evidence of the extremes that societies will go to in order to maintain and impose strict gender dichotomies that most of us in the social sciences know to be false. New York City is making some progress for the acknowledgement of the rights of transgendered people by changing their laws to allow transgender men and women to permanently change the sex status of their birth certificates.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/20 at 02:10 PM
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