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Confutata
http://confutata.wordpress.com
I’m a former person, on hiatus while I raise my two darling, crazy children.
I’m an amateur in the literal sense. The word comes from the French amateur (”lover of”), derived from the Latin amator (”lover”).
I love many things, topics, ideas, but am not an expert in much of anything.
I have an opinion anyway.
The title of my blog means “confused,” which was as good a description as any for who and what I am. I write to try to make sense of the world.
- Added on: Sep 20th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Squillo
- Listed in: Medicine Classical
- Tags: autism opera pseudoscience vaccination
Recent Posts
Poor Age of Autism: Even the Philanthropists Are Out to Get Them
Recent tweet from Age of Autism (AoA): The link leads to a news story about a couple who donated $1 million to a foundation that trains physicians in developing countries to treat club foot using a non-surgical method developed by late orthopedic su...
Age of Autism: Blog or Newspaper?
Img. from Citizen Kane, Dir: Orson Welles, RKO Pictures, 1941 A number of comrades have called for a letter-writing campaign to get Age of Autism (AoA) removed from Google News, in part as a reaction to AoA’s recent post (now removed from the sit...
Can We All Stop Using the Kool-Aid Metaphor Now?
Seriously. Using the phrase “Drank the Kool-Aid” is facile, dismissive, and utterly offensive. I am a SF Bay Area denizen old enough to remember the day of the Jonestown Massacre, November 18, 1978, and the horrors that subsequently came to light...
Stupak Amendment Demonstrates the Hypocrisy of Anti-abortion Politicians
“SEC. 265. LIMITATION ON ABORTION FUNDING a) In General.—No funds authorized or appropriated by this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) may be used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes...
For the Flowers of the Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, L...
In Praise of Sesame Street!
Sesame Street debuted on PBS 40 years ago today. It broke new ground in children’s television in a number of important ways. It was one of the first shows that didn’t talk down to kids; it presented both educational and cultural topics wi...
