So Very Patriotic

I urge white people to break this conspiracy of silence. Call on your leaders to show leadership. To show us all that you're not like the people who dominate the news headlines.

Here's yet another fascinating page about American English Dialects.

And yet, I've never seen one that explains why I pronounce "frog" as "frahg" instead of the more-common "fraug", but I pronounce "log" as "laug" and not "lahg". WTF kind of fucked up accent was I cursed with?

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW IN BORNEO!

Thou Shalt Not Wear Blasphemous Footwear?

I Am The 7%

Aaargh

The Apple Preservationist

Might hurt us.

Highlights of a April 2013 poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation:

• Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA is still the law of the land, including 12 percent who believe the law has been repealed by Congress, 7 percent who believe it has been overturned by the Supreme Court and 23 percent who say they don’t know enough to say what the status of the law is.
• About half the public (49%) says they do not have enough information about the health reform law to understand how it will impact their own family.
• The share of the public who says they lack enough information to understand how the ACA will affect their family is higher among two groups the law is likely to benefit most – the uninsured (58% of whom say they lack enough information) and low-income households (56% say so).
• When it comes to where they are getting information about the law, Americans most commonly cite friends and family (named by 40%), “newspapers, radio news or other online news sources” (36%), and cable news (30%). About one in ten report getting information from a health insurer, a doctor, an employer, or a non-profit organization. Similar shares say they have gotten information from “federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services” (9%) or “state agencies such as your state Medicaid office or health department” (8%).