The Least Complicated

Not a bad idea at all: Should Personal Finance 101 Be Required for High School Graduation?

I think maybe I could live in this nook.

Rethinking the food pyramid - is mindful eating the missing ingredient?

Charlie Harper mural!

The Floridians behind Amendment 2 are back.

Amazing wallpaper!

The Bilerico Project: HRC Throws Trans Health Equity Under the Bus - Again: This week, the Human Rights Campaign released its 2009 State of the Workplace report and Corporate Equality Index (CEI) ratings of large US employers for GLBT inclusive policies and practices . . . Despite years of objection by health advocates for the trans-community, the HRC continues to omit medically necessary transition care as a requirement for a perfect 100% CEI score. Employees who suffer distress with their physical sex characteristics or ascribed gender role (often termed gender dysphoria) are singled out by many employers for exclusion from coverage for corrective procedures that are not excluded for other employees. By rewarding these employers with 100% scores, the HRC perpetuates this discrimination."

NYTimes: In South Africa, a Justice Delayed Is No Longer Denied: "Edwin Cameron, appointed a High Court judge by Nelson Mandela soon after apartheid ended in 1994, pulled to the side of the road, leaned his head on the steering wheel and was overcome by deep, shattering sobs, he recently recalled. It was 1999 and he had just decided to publicly disclose he was H.I.V.-positive at the very moment he sought to fulfill his life’s ambition: to serve on South Africa’s highest tribunal, the Constitutional Court. “I am not dying of AIDS,” he told the stunned judicial commission that was deciding whether to recommend his elevation. “I am living with AIDS.” On that day a decade ago, he became the first — and still remains the only — senior office holder anywhere in southern Africa, and perhaps in all of Africa, to announce he was infected with H.I.V. Mr. Cameron, hale and hearty at age 55, finally ascended to the Constitutional Court this month."