Race, Class and Gender: A Reflection on Prop 8
My first reaction, on reading the news about proposition 8, was to think of this diary, by our very own pico. I don't live in California anymore, and none of my "real world" friends got married...but...
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It's In The P-I (In Memoriam)
We've been watching this for a week, and today it happened: the Seattle Post Intelligencer, after 146 years of publication, has silenced its presses. There will be some sort of online effort; Hearst...
View ArticleTwo or Three Things I Know For Sure (with apologies to Dorothy Allison)
Ok, this is a rant. It is late and I do not feel like writing a diary. I am not feeling especially articulate. But I need to say this, and I need to say it now.
View ArticleA Proposal for The Medical Improvement of the United States
The jammed sewer of American oil production pouring into the gulf is surely tragedy and spectacle enough for anyone. One more essay on the subject is unlikely to add an iota to your understanding,...
View ArticleA Flying Story and Some Questions (with rude poll)
I totally sympathize with all the outrage about security scanners. For years now, we've been trading dignity for the appearance of security. Fear this! Fear that! Terrorists are coming! The right...
View ArticlePrivilege (a rant)
This is a reactive diary. I'm reacting to the excellent privilege checklist on the rec list, and the many (many) responses. I'm reacting to my own life and the way people exclude me. I'm reacting to...
View ArticleGet thee behind me, outrage.
Oh outrage, how thou dost tempt me. Public employees are the new welfare queens? Really, Governor Christie? Really? I just got off the phone with my mother. She taught for nearly 30 years. She’s...
View ArticleThis Much Is Clear To Me
If you go away, and you want it to mean anything more than going away, you have to come back. I am an old, semi-decrepit student and the year is beginning and I can’t stay long now. But I needed to...
View ArticleBetter than the rec list: Thank you
I woke this morning to find that an anonymous benefactor had given me, with a short note (more on that in a bit) a lifetime gift subscription. Since I am a student at the moment and own one pair of...
View ArticleOrgies of Violence and Sentiment
Crying hypocrisy is a fool’s game. But amid our rolling in the tragedy in Colorado like dogs in poop, I’d like you to consider the idea that the problem may not be guns, or this particular tragedy....
View ArticleLook! Over There! Russians!
You already know what I'm going to say, right? The newspapers are full of Snowden's run. Weighty statements are being made by the president, by the secretary of state, and here on the orange, diary...
View ArticleOutrage, Shocks to the Conscience, and Truth
This will be a short diary, with little or no polish.I just woke up. It was a long night, with dreams of being lost in a giant parking garage searching for a friend I could only get intermittently on...
View ArticlePlease Stop.
I had to drive 200 miles yesterday in the downpour. Sheets of rain, high spray, the Skagit high against the banks, Lake Samish looking...large...even from the road. Listening to the NPR. Voice after...
View ArticleYour 10 Dollar Doritos Purchase, or It Gets Better
Some stuff just writes itself, and you have to put it somewhere. I'm fairly sure that Daily Kos is not entirely the right somewhere, but as I have very few somewheres right now and some of you might...
View Articlethe letter I've been meaning to write
Dear Mr. President,You are about my age. I tend to assume that means a person has seen about the same things happen in the world, heard the same songs and had some of the same experiences, but of...
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A short one: get the helicopter means...
So I saw this today: What did it mean, I thought? I assumed it was in reference to the helicopter crash, and culpability. I was wrong. I googled “get the helicopter” in quotes. It is this:me.me/…If...
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