( On why Obama doesn't just take over )

I don't usually spend too much time expounding on political or social issues here. This is my journal, and most of what I post is, thus, related to me. So yeah, it'd be hard to read this journal for long without realising that I'm a liberal lesbian pagan geek with mental and physical health issues, but only because those things bleed through when ( Read more... )

"But let us remember that at the center of every religion is compassion, love, and forgiveness and at the periphery of every religious tradition is violence, cruelty, and war. Our vocation is to keep the periphery as far from the center as possible, to keep the hijackers of extremism at bay."

--Ira Zepp, Pedagogy of the Heart

Here's an interesting article from the New York Times on the High Cost of Being a Gay Couple. Nice to see the financial aspects of same=sex marriage spelled out like that.

There are those moments in every generation . . . the ones that the world looks back on years later and asks 'where were you when . . .' Today was one of those moments ( Read more... )

Ok, this is hysterical!

Robin Williams on Obama Election

Ok, with the final numbers in, my parish (what Louisiana calls a county) did in fact go for Obama (51%-48%) not for McCain like they were reporting last night. This makes me feel much better, ironically -- it certainly didn't make a difference in the whole state, but it's nice to know that I didn't really misjudge my city (although it was still ( Read more... )

This is a wonderfully thoughtful and insightful post. Go read it. It'll help, really.

I am so fucking happy right now I simply cannot describe it. I had hope, yes, but I don't think I really *believed* it could happen. One of my hopes my whole life had been to live long enough to see a black President and a female President. I don't think I really believed either could happen before I was 50. Well I got one of them 20 years ( Read more... )

I will say a lot more tomorrow, I am sure. I just got home from watching the results at I.'s house. I only have two words right now.

Thank you.

I go bed now. I still have to get up for work in 5 hours.