-t, how did you find out that your taxes had been rejected? I'm not going to be around this weekend to mail them if I need to, and now I'm getting paranoid.
H&R Block sent me an e-mail. It took less than a day. There should be somewhere you can check on your status, however you filed. In fact, I'm going to check the Franchise Tax Board website and maybe try e-filing again directly.
Eta: ah, can't CalFile for a deceased taxpayer. I suppose I can send another copy certified mail on Monday if I get too nervous about it.
Unrelated to anything y'all are talking about I'm pretty pleased with my minor repair mojo today. I reinforced the window screen with the catdoor in it and swapped it with the plexiglass model, and remembered how to fix a leaking drip irrigation hose. And some finches showed up on the bird feeder, so yay.
I really didn't mind being called/considered an atheist until Dawkins came along.
My day was super annoying, only partly of my own making. One minor thing: I got a document that I drafted eons ago, which has since gone through various layers of editing in another department. I gave it right back to them today for a final look-over, and it turns out to be full of serial commas, which that department doesn't believe in. So I had to go through and take them out. Dude, none of you people noticed that before? I thought it was the final approved version! @@
Anyway, now I'm home with wine. And a long weekend! WOO HOOOOOO. My first Patriots Day off since high school!
And I keep from going berserk re: sexism by avoiding asshats, which I realize is not much of an activist stance.
that is proof that women have the power in sex relationships.
I can't find where it's described that way. I'm sure it has been by someone, because jerks abound, but I don't see that in Dawkin's post, and the psych study he links to makes the same points you do about possible reasons for the disparity in how men and women view casual sex. In the clarification after the initial dust-up, the women who raised the issue said they weren't objecting to the "challenge" itself or its point; they did have issues with how it was presented. (It looks like all the videos were replaced after thing settled down so I can't trace back to specifics.) Digging into the Krauss thing... I can't find as much, but yes, he does sound like a deluded ass.
And Dawkins can be an ass too. But if I admire a person, that doesn't mean I respect all of their views, and support everything they've done. (Luckily this is not an issue with Scott Adams, who has always been terrible.) Given that I personally tend to admire people on the "outspoken jerk" end of the spectrum, it's pretty likely that they're going to say things even I have problems with.
There's a tipping point where the bad stuff overhwelms the good, but... when you say "revered" I feel like you're taking their status to mean that the attendees and organizers support their opinions on all things. I don't think that's the case, even if the "you must either worship X or loathe it beyond all reason" attitude is something the internet is excellent at fostering. Dawkins gets plenty of criticism from within the skeptic community, and while I'm not familiar with Krauss, I know several other speakers listed have also been polarizing at times.
On the larger question... for me to be enraged about something, I first have to be surprised by it. And I rarely find it surprising when groups of people behave abominably. I don't really recommend sharing that attitude, though.
I really didn't mind being called/considered an atheist until Dawkins came along.
Why does it bother you now? Dawkins, despite his fairly-typical 70 year old highly science educated white guy's cringe-worthy foot-in-mouth gender statements has done a hell of a lot for getting atheists out of the closet and into the public eye. He's a brillant, often hilarious speaker and writer. And this will (language NSFW) never fail to bring me up on a down day [link] (Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail)
Plus he totally fell in love with his wife for her spicy brains.
any ladies take yaz or the generic equivalent? i have 4 months (unopened) of the generic and it's no good for me. finally got to the gyn and a new prescription for name brand only, no generic substitution. free to a good home, i hate throwing things away.
On the larger question... for me to be enraged about something, I first have to be surprised by it. And I rarely find it surprising when groups of people behave abominably. I don't really recommend sharing that attitude, though.
Oh yeah, then there's that. I'm kind of resigned to most kinds of asshattery.
