"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

As Florida awaits an appeals court ruling that may legalize gay adoption, state Sen. Nan Rich (D-Weston) is doing an end run around the court. Rich, who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians fr...

Today, Hitachi has been found guilty of price-fixing, through its own admission, in the current round of a court battle involving three other companies that produce TFT-LCD screens. The others are LG, Sharp, and lesser known Chunghwa. from BetaNews Hitachi would pay the least of the four companies t...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

“Goodbye, My Friend” March 5th, 2009 Holy flashback, Harry Henderson. There’s a whole lot of familiarity in “Goodbye, My Friend,” an episode that cribs quite liberally from last season’s “Succession” and this season’s premiere, and it’s not...

First thing this morning Steele told me that Abel had peed on the toilet seat, then Abel protested, said it wasn't him. I told him he had to wipe it off if he peep on it. He got mad and said he didn't do it and started crying. Then Steele said "no mom, it wasn't Abel, someone else did it" Me-"Did yo...

Showing off a card he received from Tes. He loves and misses her. In the tent they set up in the back yard. He kept saying he loved his house. Sitting on the window seal at the Dream Center last week during the After School program. This was our first day back volunteering there but he wasn't feelin...

Life in foster care is the fate of far too many foster children in this country, and the Republicans in the Tennessee legislature are determined to sentence even more foster children to that sentence. Why? It’s fear of the gay that moves them, surely. Here’s a bit from the article in the...

There is a fine line between assuming your trans-racially adopted child is not suffering at all as the only person of color in a white family, and inserting drama and trauma where none exists. I do my best to always be listening to what Small Sun says, and asking opening questions when I detect pain...

A couple recent items caught my eye with regard to the issue of employee adoption of social software. In Reversing the Enterprise 2.0 Pricing Model, Julien le Nestour argues that pricing per user for social software should increase as more employees use it, because the network effects of higher part...