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Virginia's attorney general is arguing that the state's colleges and universities lack the authority to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and demands that they rescind such non-discrimination statements immediately. Recently-retired long-time Republican Delegate Vince Callahan put it best: "What he's saying is reprehensible. I don't know what he's doing, opening up this can of worms."
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This handy graph shows what bullshit it is when Senate Republicans complain about Democrats passing healthcare reform via reconciliation. Right up through 2005, when they lost power, Republicans were all *about* passing big, contentious bills via reconciliation to avoid a filibuster.
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The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy has a relatively new blog that's gotten really engaging and interesting, focusing on the overlap between policy and politics in Virginia.
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Scientific American has a long, wide-ranging blog entry about, of all things, pubic hair. It's simultaneously disturbing and fascinating, touching on evolution, lice, gorillas, and shaving. Somebody e-mailed this link to me, and I didn't know whether to be grateful or offended.
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I just posted my 750-character condemnation of the letter on the Attorney General’s website, pending consensus on what the best form of concerted response should be. I’m sorry I didn’t get off my lazy butt to write or call my legislators about the anti-discrimination bill last month, but if Cuccinelli wanted to provide progressives in Virginia with fierce motivation he couldn’t have done it better.
Heh. I just thought it (the pubic hair article) was something right up your alley… offbeat science-y article on a common, everyday subject but in a way that you might not think about. :-)
I figure that if I thought it was interesting, you would too.