I've been seeing reporting of the rape kit backlog since at least the mid-90's. It's getting worse.
“Meet two women who share their outrage after it’s discovered their rape kits went untested for decades.”
NecHocNecIllud
I'm androgyne, transexual, poly, and androphilic. Nec hoc nec illud is Latin slang for bisexual, but I use it because it translates loosely as "Neither one thing nor the other." I think this is a good description of me, even though I'm not bisexual. This tumblr is neither one thing nor another also. It's random stuff I'm randomly interested in. I don't do "reblog if you believe X" posts, as I feel they are coercive to the reader and if you read my stuff you already know what I believe.
I will generally answer non-troll asks.
Ask me anything
May282013
May272013
Pittsburgh VA Delibrately Infected Veterans with Legionella
The Administrators of the Pittsburgh VA hospital discovered there was legionella in their water supply. Rather than taking proper steps to, you know, fix that before it killed people less work to use an agent that doesn’t kill legionella to treat the water. They didn’t even bother to tell staff and patients. As a result five veterans died and sixteen more got sick. One of those killed was a WWII veteran only in for dehydration. How are the people who deliberately poisoned all those people being punished? Have they been arrested for manslaughter? Have they at least been fired? Of course not. They got huge bonuses for “doing such a good job.” Have a Great Fucking Memorial Day! There are six more honored dead who would have been alive if they hadn’t gone to the hospital to remember today.
May212013
America's Heroes Return - Operation Enduring Wait
“The Obama administration’s skill at administering online databases only applies to elections.”
4AM
Bangladesh Factory Safety Update/A US National Shame
The only two American Companies willing to pay for safety upgrades like fire escapes in their factories in Bangladesh are Abercrombie and Fitch and PVH (Tom Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, et. al). Walmart, Target, the Gap, etc. absolutely refuse because the workers having even minimal rights to safety will help unions and therefore letting people die in Bangladesh is in the company interests. They insist that like the owners of the factory that collapsed, they can do an excellent job of self inspection. After all, who is going to keep the workers safer, an independent review that will close the factory if it’s likely to kill people, or an internal inspector with a strong profit motive not to? The one protecting company profits over the lives of mere humans, obviously. Two dozen European companies have signed the agreements. It’s shameful that US companies are not doing the same. They aren’t even asking for a living wage. They are asking for a reasonable chance not to die at work. That’s all.
January92013
Sandy victims still waiting for Disaster Relief 72 days later.
December102012
Services for Disabled Veterans continue to be shamefully slow and inadequate and are actually getting worse.
September282012
On our shameful failure to compensate disabled combat veterans in anything like a timely matter.
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