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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Texas teachers welcome Kamala Harris’ support | The Texas Tribune

Texas teachers stand behind Kamala Harris after years of feeling targeted, neglected by Republicans

At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.

Source: Texas teachers welcome Kamala Harris’ support | The Texas Tribune

QUICK, TAKE AN ALKA SELTZER | NANMYKEL.COM

The product of the majority’s invention runs counter to the entire notion of a government based on the rule of law. It also runs counter to the long-settled understanding of a president’s exposure to criminal prosecution, regardless of whether his acts were considered “official.” As Justice Sotomayor pointed out, why would Richard Nixon have accepted a pardon for his role in the Watergate scandal if not because everyone agreed that he could otherwise be prosecuted for his actions?

Source: QUICK, TAKE AN ALKA SELTZER | NANMYKEL.COM

Mood-Altering Snarky Snippets | Filosofa’s Word

IT IS NOBODY’S DAMN BUSINESS WHETHER A WOMAN CHOOSES TO HAVE CHILDREN OR NOT!!!!!

Did I say that loudly enough for the Republicans to hear?  We don’t mandate that a man running for political office prove via DNA tests how many children he has sired … frankly we don’t care.  So why is it different for a woman???  Quite frankly, if I were young now, I would choose not to have children, not to dump an innocent child into the world as it has become, for frankly we are destroying the planet and it would be criminal negligence to add another person to suffer the destruction.  I am sick and damn tired of men deciding what women can or cannot do!

Furthermore, having or not having children has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence or capability!!!!!!!  Kamala Harris is more intelligent and qualified than 99% of the rest of the politicians in Washington … or elsewhere … and it has nothing to do with her private decision about bearing children.  It has to do with her education, base intelligence, and experience.  Men … and women … get over yourselves!  It’s none of your damn business whether any woman has children or not!!!!!!

Source: Mood-Altering Snarky Snippets | Filosofa’s Word

अनसोशल / Unsocial – Kaushal Kishore

 

सोशल मीडिया पर गर्म है झूठों का बाजार,

हर पल दिख जाते हैं दावे प्रतिदावे हजार…

हर बात की सच्चाई चेक करना है मुश्किल,

मैं सोशल मीडिया में हो गया हूं अनसोशल…

🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️

On social media, falsehoods are rife,

People share claims that cut like a knife…

With truths so twisted, hard to verify anew,

So now I’m unsocial on social media, it’s true…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: अनसोशल / Unsocial – Kaushal Kishore

Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold

This series just keep getting better and better, although finding my scattered notes from when I was reading these books keeps getting worse and worse in terms of organization, so I beg your patience with these reviews, Fellow Readers. I love this book for the audacity and kind heart that our hero shows as he makes his way to adulthood as the physically crippled but mentally brilliant son of a rather unlikely couple. And no, just to correct an old myth, Miles Vorkosigan is not MPD and does not have a dual personality with a Beta Colony accent, he is merely very good at imitating various accents, as I was told that I also am, as a fast language learner. I got a very pleasant surprise when I read this book in the home of some friends with a rather extensive SF collection. I’d already, or so I thought, read this book 25 years ago, and only remembered the very end, which, to avoid spoilers, I will say that it perfectly bookends the start of the book, which I had entirely forgotten.  Good read, even if I may have found it a bit difficult to suspend disbelief in some parts of the scenario in the middle of the story. I thought I had more notes on this one, as I really started to make comments and email them to myself with this book, which, as other reviewers have noted, does change in tone and in a few other ways, from the previous two books in this series. This one is where the series really takes off, for me, anyway. I may try to take some time to get it from a library again and reread it so that I can add to my notes, as this is the first book in her Vorkosigan series that I find worth reading again, which is rare for me. Thanks to fan artist gemmiona for this Featured Image of Miles Vorkosigan in his House Vorkosigan greens, if I recall my uniform colors correctly. More on this once I have time to find and read this book again.

Source: Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better