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Beach-Ball-Pushing Legislator Reveals Ignorance About Autism

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez came under fire recently for her insensitive treatment of parents opposed to SB 276, the latest attempt to tighten restrictions on medical exemptions for vaccines required for school attendance. ("I'm not letting people go into testimony...

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Published on July 29, 2019 11:53

To the British Government: Stop Screwing Over Sick Kids

At a time when the rest of the world is coming to realize just how destructive, deadly, and counterproductive the War on (Some) Drugs has been, the British government is still seizing medicinal cannabis from children who need it. Well...

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Published on July 28, 2019 14:59

Why Protestors in Hong Kong Are Waving the Union Jack

This is a photo from a kinder, gentler, age of protests in Hong Kong: The handover to Chinese rule in 1997. There was no teargas back then, no gangs of Beijing-backed thugs beating crowds of people in shopping centers. In...

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Published on July 22, 2019 18:02

Laughing at Auschwitz: the Banality of Evil in Pictures

Hannah Arendt, in her coverage of the war-crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, alerted us to the "banality of evil." Eichmann was not, she observed, a maniacal monster filled with hate, a psychopath, or indeed, anyone very different from most of...

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Published on July 17, 2019 08:00

The Best Two Minutes and Ten Seconds of Television You Will Ever See

SPOILERS. It's possible that it is too early to call this, but I don't think so. For those who have been watching Stranger Things (maybe not so much for those who haven't), this clip is destined to go down in...

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Published on July 16, 2019 07:42

A Doctor's View on the Vaccine Debate

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a GP in Scotland, writes: When it comes to the science, it does amuse me that vaccination began before anyone understood any of the science – of anything to do with microbes and the immune system. It...

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Published on July 15, 2019 17:40

Daily Log: Saving Humanity by Learning How to Live with Tech.

I had some really amazing conversations at FEECON last month. Lots and lots of really smart, interesting, independent-minded people there, and lots to talk about. One of my favorite conversations was with another homeschooling mom (there were lots of those...

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Published on July 15, 2019 17:19

Daily Log: Way Behind, but ...Sky Pirates!

OK, yes, I have not been doing a great job of updating my Daily Log each day. In other news though, my book is finished! Yesterday, I received the proofing copy of Annabel Pickering and the Sky Pirates!!! There are...

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Published on July 11, 2019 13:23

Daily Log: All I Have to Say About Google

Yesterday, RT reported that: "An embarrassing new leak shows Google employees discussing disabling features for YouTube creators they describe as ‘Nazis,’ even as the company denied allegations of political bias based on earlier leaked documents. "In an email published on...

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Published on June 26, 2019 11:32

Daily Log: Scarecrows

Today was depressing - if I focus on the news, that is. SB 276, the draconian bill that I wrote about here and here, passed out of the CA Assembly Health Committee today by a vote of 9:3, with 2...

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Published on June 20, 2019 20:10