It's hard to know where to begin about the events of the past week. ( How about with Islamophobia? )

I love Obama. I really do. I love him so much I kinda wanna make out with him. But watching the Tucson Memorial Service on TV is really rubbing me the wrong way. Specifically, it's the applause. I don't care if Shakespeare himself wrote the speeches, it's really stressing me out to see people applauding anyone at a goddamn motherfucking memorial ( Read more... )

Brace yourselves: I took a lot of pictures today (and today ain't over yet). <--- written yesterday

( Antioch Reunion 2009: Day 3 )

As certainly everyone who lives in Pittsburgh knows, The G20 Summit will be happening in town later this week.

I have to admit, I'm torn.

On the one hand, I feel like the biggest wimp in the world for even considering not going down there. I feel like it's 1969 and I live in Vestal, NY but I just don't feel like going to a concert this weekend ( Read more... )

This is, verbatim, what I just posted to feminist_rage:

Oh, heebmagazine. Usually I love your snarky ironic hipster take on the world, but today's post just makes me want to scream.

It's about the recent murder of Wesleyan College student Johanna Justin-Jinich by former classmate and deranged anti-Semite Stephen Morgan. Their link to the google news article refers to ( Read more... )

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Yes, I realize that the term "gay bashing" generally refers to inflicting actual phsyical violence on gay people (or people perceived to be gay), even if ABC doesn't. That aside, I really do like this piece.

When I mentioned last week that Dan and Sprout were unable to come to work because their block was on lockdown? I only knew half of the story.

The police sniper was on their porch. They woke at around 3:00 am to the sound of gunfire. Dan saw the guys outside and called the cops, having no idea that they were the cops. What he thought were two men ( Read more... )

I posted this about a year ago, but something that mirvana said today got me to thinking about posting this again.

Here, then is my ( Boyfriend Job Description ... )

A friend wrote this post yesterday about Liviu Librescu and the tragedy at Virginia Tech. It very vividly illustrates the Talmudic saying "whoever saves one life, saves the world entire," and I wanted to direct everyone's attention toward it.

Santa Dan has long been telling me that I needed to write a "Boyfriend Job Description," because it was an important job. Debbie's been giving the same advice, although her rationale is more along the lines of creating a vision of what it is that I want so that I can ask the Universe to send it to me ( Read more... )