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getting really damned sick and tired of being triggered. |
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qotd
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Nov. 10th, 2008 @ 06:23 am
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" I often find that people who seek to understand me are people who have some barrier or discomfort in accepting me."
- rachel pollack |
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words have consequences.
and sometimes "shut the fuck up" will achieve exactly that. |
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the most memorable and poignant moment for me was when the news camera panned the crowd in chicago and landed on jessy jackson. he had a thousand-yard stare, and was completely inside himself. and then his eyes pulled tight and his lips pulled apart in tears, and i could see him thinking about his friend who'd been to the mountaintop and had died to make this night possible.
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isn't obama not only the first black US president, but the first black head of state in the Global North?
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i think we are not seeing a "shift to the left." bush was the worst president in modern memory. mccain was an awful, mean-spirited candidate who chose an ignoramus for a running mate. the economy has crashed and the republicans have no credibility in the area of governance. and yet obama's electoral landslide was still in the 50th percentile of the popular vote, california prop 8 passed even while they elected obama, and palin is widely viewed as the face of the next republican wave. i think we remain - and will remain for at least another couple of generations, and probably longer than my lifetime - a sharply divided nation with a strong tendency toward hypocritical sanctimony and belligerent ignorance. |
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i had thought i might be more participatory.
i find that in fact i am inclined to exactly the opposite.
neither do i feel nourished, so much as drained, by the disconnected, shifting nature of online acquaintance.
accordingly, i've done some pruning, and will probably remain behind the "friends lock" for a while... which is new to me, and contrary to what used to be my purposes here.
but things change. i change. not always for the better.
to those few who i have jettisoned, please know that i consider you all interesting and excellent people. this is about me, not you.
i need to focus.
namaste. |
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... i was born in the year of the rat.
( Read more... )
Dec. 13th, 2007 @ 03:11 pm
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i tell you, this guy has the most impressive set of onscreen teeth since brian blessed:
( Read more... )
Nov. 29th, 2007 @ 11:54 am
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Aug. 1st, 2007 @ 07:23 pm
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a greatly compassionate cynic has finally been sucked into the chronosynclastic infundibulum.
i wonder how he'll feel about that?
so long, kurt.
Apr. 12th, 2007 @ 09:04 am
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does "harry benjamin syndrome" mean that we're all going to all wind up balding and bespectacled?
Mar. 13th, 2007 @ 11:44 am
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show me a spiritual seeker/inquirer who isn’t to some degree eclectic, and i’ll show you either someone who hasn’t traveled more than ten miles from their home, read a book, watched television, or participated meaningfully in any modern culture in the past one hundred years - or someone who is operating under self-defined constraints as artificial as “eclecticism” is often considered to be.
paraphrasing nixon, “we are all post-modernists now.”
Mar. 9th, 2007 @ 08:01 am
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are most people really that stupid?
scratch that... stupid question.
Mar. 5th, 2007 @ 04:58 pm
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| » monday again |
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i want a raise
i want to go home
i want sex
i want a cookie
—evolution control committee
Mar. 5th, 2007 @ 02:04 pm
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| » daily affirmation |
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There are decent bragging rights associated with getting through life on the Hard difficulty setting.
—alison
Mar. 5th, 2007 @ 10:53 am
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Mar. 1st, 2007 @ 06:51 am
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| » for daphne |
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Dogs pees upside down
via warren ellis
Feb. 16th, 2007 @ 01:24 pm
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in the "fantasy fiction" category of the 2006 bulwer-lytton contest:
It was within the great stony nostril of a statue of Landrick the Elfin Vicelord that Frodo's great uncle, Jasper Baggins, happened to stumble upon the enchanted Bag of Holding, not to be confused with the Hag of Bolding, who was quite fond of leeks, most especially in a savory Hobbit knuckle stew.
Feb. 9th, 2007 @ 03:46 pm
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i need this
spider would pummel me, of course.
Feb. 2nd, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
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