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Diane Feinstein sending constituents bad info
As part of a letter-writing campaign, I recently asked Senator Diane Feinstein to support health care (health insurance?) reform. The form letter I got back is simply wrong. She wrote “However, neither the Senate nor the House has adopted a single, comprehensive bill for consideration.” The House passed “a single comprehensive bill” (HR 3962, the …
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Sixty-five more reasons to call congress
Reposted from my daily kos diary: A while ago, I wrote about Stories of Health, our project to document how America’s broken health care system affects us all. On the eve of Congress’ historic health care vote, I have some more stories to share. Since that time, we’ve continued to travel. We spent a week …
Another solution for WordPress’ “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Many WordPress users have run in to the error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Sometimes, it is because you changed the table prefix and the solution is a database change. For other folks, it was due to old plugin incompatibility. To fix it, you need to replace admin_head with admin_menu. …
New AirPort base station?
The apple.com search engine seemed to have a spot of trouble with this one.
Designing Obama
Scott Thomas, the design director for Obama for America (and the guy who kicked my butt every day for two months to make sure Vote for Change was as good as it could be) has put together Designing Obama. This a fantastic book chronicling the art both from and inspired by the Obama campaign. Here’s …
Jon Stewart eviscerates spineless democrats
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Protest + brass section = performance art
Operation Hey Mackey! – Whole Foods, Oakland from Jamie LeJeune on Vimeo. via Venice for Change.
Protect Insurance Companies PSA
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
Q&A fail
(via failblog, of course).