February 2012
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It’s Spring, which means applicants are waiting to hear back from schools. I can feel the nerves in the air!
For the curious, I applied (and got into) UCLA’s MPH and MSW programs, Univ. of Michigan’s MPH and MSW programs, UPenn’s MPH and MSW programs, USC’s (Southern California, not South Carolina) MSW program, and NYU’s MSW program.
(Edit: I should note that...
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Contraception's Con Men →
Thank God I’ve stumbled on this blog - The Progressive Catholic Voice (I’ve also found Vox Nova). I’ve been having a difficult time with my faith b/c of how the Church has been represented on the national stage. I’ve been so disappointed by how Catholic “leaders” seem to care more about women’s reproductive health choices than matters of poverty and...
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Process recordings take so much out of me.
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More people now die in the US from Hepatitis C... →
Read on about the good news and the bad.
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The VA and the ACA →
Only a minority of veterans receive health care at the VA, and most VA patients also receive care in other settings, financed by other systems.
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Data visualization tools →
I dream to have all this knowledge inside my head. In other words, I dream to be as smart as Kat Downs. Also, don’t forget to check out Chrys Wu’s links, which is linked on KD’s page.
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7 worst international aid ideas →
I still stand by my anti-TOMS stance. But seriously, rapper 50 cent and international aid are two things I never want to hear together in a sentence ever again.
But here’s the TOMS explanation:
Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having...
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Treatment Of PTSD And Traumatic Brain Injury By... →
CBO [Congressional Budget Office] finds that:
One in four recent combat veterans treated at VHA from 2004 to 2009 had a diagnosis of PTSD. About 7 percent had a diagnosis of TBI. (Those figures include veterans who had both diagnoses.) Nearly three-quarters of recent combat veterans treated at VHA had neither diagnosis.
The average cost for OCO patients in the first year of their treatment...
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Explaining Annette Lareau, or, Why Parenting Style... →
In [Lareau’s] 2003 book, Unequal Childhoods, she explains that middle-class families raised their children in a different way than working-class and poor families, and that these differences cut across racial lines.
Also,
Lareau refuses to weigh in on what is the best form of parenting. However, she does point out that the middle-class kids and parents in her study were exhausted from...
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How to (not) write about Jeremy Lin →
The Asian American Journalists Association released guidelines for how to write about J.Lin.
Ridiculous that they even have to say these things.
3. Journalists don’t assume that African American players identify with NBA players who emigrated from Africa. The same principle applies with Asian Americans. It’s fair to ask Lin whether he looked up to or took pride in the...
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Jeremy Lin stories + intersectionality of racism
LATimes Bill Plaschke: Knicks’ Jeremy Lin holds mirror up to America
The true beauty of his story is in awareness of the ugliness that has been found there.
The Daily Beast Andrew Sullivan: Jeremy Lin is not Tim Tebow (and here)
Acknowledging the role of race in Jeremy Lin’s story does not make us racist. It is racist to resent Jeremy Lin’s success because he is Asian. To...
“Acknowledging the role of race in Jeremy Lin’s story does not make us...”
– http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/jeremy-lin-is-not-tim-tebow-ctd.html
Today, because of my MSW program, I resolve to name racism when I see it. I resolve to no longer feel disempowered because of my race to speak out against discrimination. Today, I resolve to acknowledge that (even) as an Asian woman, I do have a right and an obligation.
““I as a Catholic have absolutely no right in my thinking to foist through...”
– http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/quote-1.html
The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the... →
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“On the one hand, childhood adversity appears to pose health risks: children with...”
– Interesting subject with a personal twist from the author: Are You Traumatized? « Zócalo Public Square (via reportingonhealth)
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Current social work topic: attachment styles + resiliency + trauma
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“They’ve been dominating the news, haven’t they? And they are...”
– http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/the-priorities-of-the-catholic-bishops.html
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Candy Chang →
Her byline: Candy Chang is an artist who explores making cities more comfortable and contemplative places.
Some of her projects:
When I was little I wanted to be / Today I want to be
Before I die…
Food Insecurity:
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state...”
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
This is so Sex and Cookies.
To do:
Print out syllabi for the quarter (now that we’re halfway through and I’m so lost in the sauce) - this might help me out.
#HandlingIt
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“People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad, but paying $900 for a drug they...”
– He’s everything I don’t believe in with regard to healthcare. Nothing.
cognitivedissonance:
Rick Santorum, speaking to the mother of a young boy in Colorado about the free market and prescription drug prices. She told Santorum her son’s medication could cost up to $1 million per...
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Aaron Carroll from The Incidental Economist on... →
The basic argument is that your kids should get ALL their vaccines. There’s no reason not to. Vaccines are safe. Your body can handle it. You prevent disease and infection in yourself and others. Just do it. Stop fretting. Just do it. You and your community will be healthier.
I agree.
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Pink Razors →
I love these ladies.
Helen writes:
Yes. They provide abortion services. Deal with it because they also do so much more and we remember the world before them. It wasn’t pretty.
And Margaret’s response is priceless.
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On my reading list
Midterms means I have no time to read all my internet finds. But I’d like to close out these tabs.
My list:
The Very Real Danger of Modified Foods (via The Atlantic)
Genetic or Not, Gay Won’t Go Away (via NYTimes)
Virtual Painkiller (via Andrew Sullivan)
The Story of a Suicide (via The New Yorker)
Living in the Shaky Place (via The Atlantic, again)
Thank goodness for the...
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Another Catholicism →
Andrew Sullivan writes and quotes:
We hear constantly about the evils of contraception and gays and an alleged “war on religion” from the two Catholic presidential candidates. And yet both of them support torture of terror suspects; and both were ardent supporters of the Iraq war and want to deepen the one in Afghanistan as well as launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Both support the...
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Tax whiners →
I link to the above post not to highlight a particular illuminating statement about taxes or anything, but rather because
I really wish I had the patience and intelligence to do the minute dissection and analysis Harold Pollack does in response to James Stewart’s NYTimes column; and,
the basic thesis of Pollack’s post - the basic decency of it - just resonates with me
The top one...
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Asexuality in the public eye →
Excerpt from blogger Figleaf via Andrew Sullivan:
Imagine, a man! Who doesn’t have sex! Inconceivable! Almost intolerable!* But that whole “man must boink” business is as clearly socially constructed as a Windsor tie. What’s really chilling is that a man who doesn’t “boink” isn’t just weird, he’s broken and wrong and by gum we’d better...
Oh, and also, the 1991 Russia photo is...
dang. what?!
shortformblog:
Our reader squashed threw this in a reply to that fake Russia crowd post, confirming that the picture is in fact Photoshopped:
Looked at the big version of the photo myself and confirmed this using pixel matching. Will send a note to Alan Taylor of the Atlantic about this photo.
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Arizona GOP Lawmaker Wants A State Holiday To... →
So ridiculous. Not to mention there is this: Tennessee Tea Parties demand textbooks contain no mean things about Founding Fathers (inc. the fact that they owned slaves).
healthycal:
As if everyday isn’t a holiday for whites.
Reacting to a Democratic colleagues apparently incendiary request to celebrate a Latino American day, State Rep. Cecil Ash (R) declared that he’d support the idea as...
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Seriously, all I want to do today is to make friendship bracelets.
#terribleatmidterms
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Amending A Bill To Kill It →
Another example of the manipulability of politics and how manipulative politicians are.
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Change You Can Believe In: Two Wars Ended →
Andrew Sullivan writes:
In running for re-election, Obama will be able to say he delivered on four core objectives: restoring economic growth in one year after inheriting the worst recession since the 1930s; ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; delivering universal healthcare; and saving the now buoyant American auto sector. And Romney wants to run against Obama’s record.
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How doctors die →
It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the...
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$400K donated to Planned Parenthood in 24 hrs. b/c...
Let’s keep it going.
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Chris Christie Embarrasses Himself With... →
Regarding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saying civil-rights activists “would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets of the South”, Paul Campos at The Daily Beast writes:
Jim Crow was finally dismantled, not by popular referendum but by federal legislation, and the federal court decisions that enforced it. That legislation, and...
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