It may not make fans in Cleveland happy, but it sure helped me remember the best day I had all year, February 7, 2016, when the Denver Broncos, my team since I was ten years old, upset the Carolina Panthers and won Super Bowl 50. The team received their championship rings the other night and here is what it looks like:
Video highlights of the game:
Received an e-mail from Tim Canova. This time he has shifted his focus from DWS to Donald Trump.
The contribution e-mail says in part.
"which is why we’re asking:
Can you sign our petition pledging to do whatever you can to defeat Donald Trump in the general election? "
i.e. vote for Hillary Clinton. I unsubscribed, telling his campaign why. I regret the money I previously sent to his campaign.
MO's out of the country right now and is unable to login and comment on this site. With her approval the following is her response to the Why I Avoid Reddit essay:
Before I get to my take on the “real” definition, the political scientist in me feels a need to define some commonly misunderstood terms of which socialism is a great example. Like many people here in the US, I have always been very uncomfortable with the word socialism, and in my case, I realize it is because that one word has many very different meanings.
Back in the mid-80s my friends and I were at the only gay bar within 100 miles in any direction and one of the only five in the entire state of Tennessee. It was the middle of summer and everyone had Saturday Night Fever. Being the only gay bar around it was always crowded on the weekends and everyone was in their groups. The lesbians were hanging out by the pool table. The preppies were in the corner booth. The punk and new wave crowd were in the darkest corner.
Times are getting tough for cities and counties who have been making big bucks off the yellow brick road of mass incarceration.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/09/local-jails-profit-from-warehousing-...
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn writes at Health IT News about health disparities faced by the LGBT community in America.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, has an over-arching goal to improve the health, safety, and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The CDC points out that LGBT individuals face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination, and denial of civil and human rights. These challenges have been associated, in clinical peer-reviewed literature, with higher rates of psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide.
Experiences of violence are frequent for LGBT individuals
--CDC
