I am not so much interested in critiquing artaxastra's specific postBut I do think that getting to know the Other is really important.  I think a lot of people are scared of the people on the other side because they don't understand them.  And I think this is true of/on both sides.  I think it's harder to demonize people when you actually know them ( Read more... )

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We had CWM fellowship dinner at Mike's in Davis Square last night.  I was sitting with Carolyn, Cheryl, Sean, and Michele ( Read more... )

It was the How John McCain Just Lost Florida... dKos diary (about Palin's supposed support for Buchanan) that tipped me over the edge and prompted my "Someone is WRONG on the Internet" diary.  One commenter on my diary said, "Very well-reasoned, but you forgot the biggest This whole thing about her 'grandchild' needs to be dropped."  I replied, "I ( Read more... )

I need to invest in some Clorox wipes or something.  I did a little cleaning of kitchen counter tops and stuff, but I need like a dead sponge or something to really attack the grime -- and I wanna do stuff like clean the spots off the wall behind the stove.  (I also really wanna clean the fridge, but that's gonna require having somewhere to put ( Read more... )

I almost never read DailyKos unless I'm following a link from elsewhere (and it seriously weirds me out to read community members referred to as "kossacks"), but this entry made me all flappy hands happy. I think I'm actually going to get a Kos account just to say thank you. Edit: "NOTE: There is a 24-hour waiting period for new comments and a ( Read more... )

A recent Sophian article opened:"I am not here as a firefighter trying to put out the flames of this racial incident or to give a Kumbaya-My-Lord-We-Are-All-a-Big-Happy-Family speech to make most people at Smith feel good about themselves," he said. "I am here today to speak truth to power about race matters in contemporary America and, in the ( Read more... )

[I started this entry during work today, and it took far too long to finish it tonight.  Sleepytime ( Read more... )

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Blah blah blah Inklings class. (Lewis is at least more palatable than Chesterton.) <3 Zia. Work today has been so much less insane than recent days. (I have time to putz on LJ. Need i say more?) Stacey stopped by my desk earlier just to say hi 'cause she hadn't talked to me in a while. <3 I have finally decided that i do quite like her ( Read more... )