Waiting with bated breath for Disco today

[conuly]

Can't wait to see all the fallout from last week.

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How the Olympics Turned China on to Skiing

When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships

Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again (The sheer amount of fanfiction on the internet and elsewhere proves that "it's necessary to pay creators forever or else people won't create" is a lie.)

A Mom Fights To Get An Education For Her Deaf Daughters

Transgender U.S. military recruits enlist amid uncertainty (Smart move. Once they're already in, it'll be a lot harder to kick them back out.)

Illinois Judge Allows 11-Year-Old Girl To Use Medical Marijuana At School

My guns or my ganja? Firearm-owning pot fans face a choice

How to Turn a Red State Purple (Democrats Not Required)

In wake of Fujimori pardon, divided Peru debates meaning of reconciliation

Thousands of Greeks protest over right to strike, hitting hospitals, transport and shipping

Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past

Saline shortage has hospitals scrambling as flu season hits

Trump administration forced to renew DACA permits as furor over the president's immigration slur persists

What Trump doesn't get about Martin Luther King Jr.

Making The Case That Discrimination Is Bad For Your Health

How Gerrymandering Silenced North Carolina's Cities

U.S.-led coalition helps to build new Syrian force, angering Turkey

What I’ve learned from my tally of 757 doctor suicides

Florida Prisoners Prepare to Strike, Demanding an End to Unpaid Labor and Brutal Conditions (Let's hope they get real media attention this time)

Russia deploys more surface-to-air missiles in Crimean build-up

America’s Home Nurse Shortage is Stranding Kids in Hospitals

A Tiny Tax Hike On People Who Bike To Work Helps Explain The Whole GOP Tax Law

How the courts help companies keep sexual misconduct under cover

Comments

[greghousesgf]

that one article about the deaf kids in India is worded kind of like they're saying the differences between ASL and British Sign Language are comparable to the difference between American English and British English. this is not accurate. the difference between ASL and BSL is much bigger to the point where the two have almost nothing in common,(they don't even have the same alphabet!) as opposed to the fact that a hearing American and a hearing Brit can pretty much make themselves understood to eachother.
I find it interesting that that doctor who got grabby with that woman was named Colon. yeah, he's a large intestine, all right....

[conuly]

That is correct - ASL is closely related to French Sign Language and isn't really related to British Sign Language at all.

But it's worth noting that having the same signed alphabet is not that crucial.

[calimac]

Sometimes I see a headline suggesting that what follows will be the World's Shortest Article.

However, when I see the headline, "What Trump doesn't get about Martin Luther King Jr.," my thought was: This will be far too long to read in a human lifespan.

[conuly]

LOL.

[wendelah1]

The Bloomberg article is wrong about so many things. It's a not a shortage of home care nurses that's the problem, it's the structure of the entire health care delivery system in the United States. Most misleading headline ever, too. Are we planning to move a trained nurse into the home of every person with a sick baby who wants to go back to work? Who is going to pay for that? We pay for incredibly complex, unbelievably costly, life-saving medical treatment for critically ill children without considering the ongoing costs of doing so. They didn't seem to see any connection between the shortage of home care nurses and the fact that they make so much less money than their counterparts in acute care hospitals either.

[conuly]

Are we planning to move a trained nurse into the home of every person with a sick baby who wants to go back to work?

A reasonable amount of paid parental leave would surely help without requiring full-time nursing for all those kids.