Introducing: Highlighted Posts
Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo.
Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!
Looks like I’m going to able to spot “sponsored content” even more easily…
You should really read Meredith Gran’s awesome comic Octopus Pie
Jesse Thorn: My ten favorite soul albums -
Soul’s not really an LP genre (James Brown particularly was a singles artist - perhaps the most brilliant of all but just not an album guy, and the 60s in general were a great time for soul but not for albums), but by request, my ten favorite soul albums, off the top of my head…
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Religious Groups Taking Fight Against Contraception Requirements to the Supreme Court -
Yet another legal fight we could have avoided. Instead of trying to attach requirements and rules for the good of everyone on top of a health care system that functions mainly to deny care and enrich insurers we could have just expanded Medicare to everyone.
All those insurance administrators who’d be out of a job? Guess what, there’s a huge need for admins in Medicare now! All those people who work at Catholic hospitals but want the Pill? You can have it without some bishop breathing down your neck about immorality!
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Watching the glue dry on a ukulele prototype. I still need to sit down and design an actual headstock instead of the Frankenstein’s monster thing I have now.
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Good to know that some things (like crappy service company naming) never change.