ACA is allowing people to follow their dreams.

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Monday April 28, 2014 · 9:49 AM PDT

2014/04/28 · 09:49

The last place I expected to come across a pro-Obamacare article was at Rock Paper Shotgun, a PC gaming news website with its headquarters in England. So Imagine my surprise when I came across this article telling the story of Sam Farmer who, thanks for ACA, is finaly able to pursue his own dreams without having to be tethered to a traditional contract for the insurance.

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Monday July 22, 2013 · 6:41 AM PDT

2013/07/22 · 06:41

Good games have an unparalleled ability to connect the player to an experience completely outside his or her normal life. So it is with Introversion Software's Prison Architect. Ostensibly a game in the style of Simcity, Theme Hospital, and Rollercoaster Tycoon; Prison Architect deals with a much darker and more controversial subject matter. The game is currently still in early development, but is playable and enjoyable in it's current state. You play as the designer and manager of a prison. A private prison funded by federal contracts and grants, specifically. It would be easy at this point to deride the game as trivializing or even glorifying the prison industrial system. I am not going to do that.

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Tuesday November 13, 2012 · 2:11 PM PST

2012/11/13 · 14:11

I stumbled upon this video from the incredible folks at Minute Physics and it got me thinking. First, here's the video, then I'll share my thoughts after the break.

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Monday October 29, 2012 · 4:44 AM PDT

2012/10/29 · 04:44

Sorry for the short Diary, but I wanted to bring your attention to this incredible graph made by Randall Munroe over at XKCD.

XKCD has long been one of my favorite corners of the internet, but MR. Munroe has out-done himself this time. This graph shows an ideological map of the two wings of american politics since the birth of the nation. It's all put together in as readable a fashion as you could ask for, and the amount of research and raw data that had to go into it is staggering, especially since it is posted on the internet for free. I'm not putting the actual graph in this diary because Mr. Monroe deserves the traffic for this, and also it is huge. I mean, HUGE. So click the first link in the diary and check it out!

Pres. Obama signs Med Student's labcoat "Go Obamacare!" (updated with pic!)

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Saturday September 08, 2012 · 2:23 PM PDT

2012/09/08 · 14:23

Found a great story on facebook today that I hadn't seen here on Daily Kos, but thought ya'll might like. When President Obama was in Iowa City yesterday, Shadee Giurgius managed to get a unique autograph. The President sign Giurgius' Lab coat with the note "Go Obamacare!"

Personally, I think it's awesome that the President has embraced the title given in derision to the Affordable Care Act. It's always a good idea to take your opponents weapons and turn them against him.

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Saturday September 08, 2012 · 8:42 AM PDT

2012/09/08 · 08:42

This morning at work, as I strode through the break room on my way to my office, I noticed a negative Romney ad on tv. I don't know which one, they all run together for me. As I passed by a table where two women sat drinking coffee, I heard one utter the most abhorrent thing. "I don't think I'm going to vote this year."

I was stunned. I am not the sort of guy to interfere in the business of others, nor would I ever consider breaking into someone else's conversation under normal circumstances, but before I could fully appreciate what was happening, I had pulled a chair opposite this woman and asked her "Why not?"

Follow me below the thinger for as accurate an account as I can give of the conversation that followed.

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ACA is allowing people to follow their dreams.

Liberally Gaming: Prison Architect.

An open video letter to the President from Minute Physics

XKCD posts epic ideological chart

Pres. Obama signs Med Student's labcoat "Go Obamacare!" (updated with pic!)

"I don't think I'm going to vote this year."