February 2010
“Well whose sense of order is being protected? The business community’s, the...”
– Bad press in Haiti: Why the focus on looting?: Rebecca Solnit « Repeating Islands
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January 2010
hman:
OMG, see? EVERYONE’S DOING IT! And he also sounds hot!, but alas, taken.
I’m only taken if you want monogamy!
oh my, that is fun to do.
Listen
“But having lost at the trial court, again at the appeals court and then in the...”
– Why is KBR so afraid of letting Jamie Leigh Jones have her day in court? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
Back to Stats with me. I need lighter break material.
Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing
Happy...
“Due to lack of demand for the RealVideo format, we will be retiring our links to...”
– About C-SPAN - Video Help
This is wonderful news.
“A 12-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl from Northwest Indiana are accused of...”
– Child porn charges for sexting at age 12? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
So this problem’s not going away. We’re going to continue making sex offenders out of our kids if we don’t change the law.
Thanks for the support and the emails, internet.
Except for the single victim blaming rape apologist, that was a successful sharing experience.
Shame
It’s strange coming to terms with the fact that I was date raped. I’ve had more blackout sex than I’d like and (from what I know) it was all consensual sex that, while I may have regretted it, did not leave me feeling like I was taken advantage of. But I remember this night. I was in Positano, Italy with my parents. It was New Years 2004 and I was depressed. I drank two bottles...
I am good at panicking in the face of opportunity.
Cheryle Robinson Jackson for U.S. Senate: Official... →
Hey, Illinois readers, there’s a primary coming up. This lovely lady supports gay marriage. She’s also got Lupe Fiasco doing a campaign concert for her tonight at The Shrine.
“About four-in-ten (39%) know that Nevada Democrat Harry Reid is the majority...”
– Public Knowledge: Senate Legislative Process a Mystery to Many - Pew Research Center
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Light blogging for the next few days. My devil-cold kept me from doing homework throughout the week, so I have to do it all this weekend, instead.
Post Script
I’ll believe the repeal of DADT when I see it.
Much like everything else.
I’m also going to call my Senators and Reps every day.
Seeing Al Franken clapping behind the military brass made this hour worthwhile.
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
azspot:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
Mega-sadness.
/grieves
:(
Oh damn.
SCOTUS is annoyed.
He loves tax cuts… he hates tax cuts.
squashed:
Student loan forgiveness and education tax cuts could really level the playing field for a lot of people.
One of the most blessed things that’s happened in my life is that I managed to get a B.A. from a great school without going into debt. Thanks for saving like the Depression never ended, Grandma and Grandpa.
Also, one passing reference to health care twenty five minutes in…
He’s not going to ignore it entirely, right?
ETA: Oh hai, thx preznit.
Clean coal is such a fucking joke.
Pity me
Amanda is busy tonight so it’ll be me on the couch, pipe in one hand and tissues in the other, scaring the cats with my yelling at the 36” CRT monitor that serves as my television.
I swear, just once, I’d like to not have my first reaction to the President be “ARE YOU TRYING TO HURT ME?”
Ugh. I’ve got a fucking cold and my face is filled with snot. I had an appointment with my new PCP already scheduled today, so I can get a referral to an in network psychiatrist and therapist and also so I can get a cholesterol test done. The latter means that I haven’t eaten or drank anything except water since last night.
I’m sick, uncaffeinated and HUNGRY, and in an hour...
“This month, Miller published a study in the journal Contraception detailing...”
– Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion - Newsweek.com
“Later, I asked a woman working at the store about concealer and she told me that...”
– BRITTICISMS: Sometimes this sort of thing bothers me. Sometimes it doesn’t.
further clarification:
I think gender and sex are real but that not everybody has them.
cis/trans/genderqueer coalitions are more like what I mean.
FYI
I understand the importance of gender-based critiques.
Society forces everybody into identities and it’s ridiculous to dismiss people for organizing under them.
I think genderqueer and trans alliances are necesary.
I used to be a second-waver but then I realized people don’t fit.
Wanna be startin’ something?
Gender
My gender identity is similarly diasporic. I love the trans movement and feel that the the protections and social acceptance sought by trans people would be a great boon to me. I don’t really identify as trans… at least not trans man or trans woman. But I certainly don’t identify as a cis man. I would much rather be counted amongst the girls if I have to choose. But, I present as...
Bisexuals
We have a hard time maintaining a coherent identity. We are erased: the male bisexual is completely invisible and the female bisexual is just playing for male attention. We are dismissed: gays are distrustful of their bisexual brothers and sisters who have chosen opposite sex partners. Pretty much everybody thinks we’re greedy sluts and it’s hard to push past that.
The vast majority...
“Lucky for Republicans, Democrats are set to spend the last year of their large...”
– Twitter / daveweigel
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Today, I’ll be listening to a lot of Swans.
I think I like my brain meds, Internet. I’m probably going to need to step up the dose (I’m at 50mg / day), but so far no horrible side effects and I don’t seem to be getting stuck in obsessive loops. I’m more easily frustrated but it reaches a boiling point very quickly and then dissipates, as opposed to lingering around...
“[I]f critics begin by using the wrong definitions and descriptions they will not...”
– Eunomia » All Of This Has Happened Before
Well, Internet
My life is busy.
I’m thinking about serious art.
Novels are pretty great.
What am I doing here.
New readers, I’m skeptical of you. You came too easily.
I’m going to read two chapters of a statistics text book.
GOTEAMDANNY
Things that happened this week:
I started taking an atypical antipsychotic
I went on a date with a boy
I started classes
