A few months back I joined the social medial network thing that is for neighborhoods in my city. I don't actually participate in it, but I get email digests of the day's posts and an email if there's an important official announcement/reminder, e.g. "if your regular trash pickup day is Tuesday, your trash will be picked up on Wednesday this week ( Read more... )

The past week - heck, for years, really - I've been angry at what's going on in the world around me. Most recently it's been the fact that one of Chick-Fil-A's owners has given large sums of money to anti-gay organizations, including actual hate groups, but there has also been the anti-gay-marriage legislation passed in my state and others, the ( Read more... )

Obama declaration "icing on the cake" of gay rights legacy - The Rachel Maddow Show (May 9th, 2012) - this is over 16 minutes long, but well worth watching.

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Today was again a busy (if short) day, and so is tomorrow likely to be, as all not-otherwise-occupied moments are being spent training my replacement. Sigh.

( Annoying things )

I am, basically, a pacifist, increasingly so as I get older ( Read more... )

I'm tremendously disappointed in Emma Thompson and others, especially but not limited to folks in the entertainment industry, who apparently don't think that raping a 13-year-old is a crime deserving of punishment. I don't care if Polanski is talented, rich, and famous. What he did was and is illegal, and he has not served his sentence for that ( Read more... )

"bigotry dressed in the cloak of faith" - came up with that in a reply to a post in another LJ, and liked it so much I wanted to put it here, too. That's what I see it as. Whited sepulchres, and all that. I refer here specifically to the Christian Right, not to all Republicans nor to all Christians indiscriminately. (If I lumped them all ( Read more... )