Didn't sleep well, got up to have breakfast with T & B, then T needed some time to himself playing video games, and B needed time to himself out on the patio, and I was wondering how my day would go, as the emotions of our grief and the unresolved conflicts within our relationships punched against each other ( Read more... )

I'd seen after 10/7 that few Israelis support a two-state solution, but few Palestinians do either. The world cannot impose a two-state solution that the people living there do not want -- we've been trying that for 80 years. The people living there, each side, wants their own state to win. So they keep fighting ( Read more... )

don't play with my heart that way, DavidS

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said on Thursday that he would seek to overturn a 1982 court decision that obligated public schools to educate all children ...

On the one hand, they claim to be the Party of Life, so concerned about the unborn, yet they really don't give a damn about children after they're born. Not a single God damn.

In the global rivalry between China, Russia, and the US, you don't have to pick a side. Disliking the US doesn't mean you have to boost China or Russia. Disliking Russia or China doesn't mean you have to be a US fanboy/girl/x. It's OK to oppose the imperialism and environmental destruction of all three countries simultaneously ( Read more... )

That's the next layer, or the final layer, yeah, meditation v. anxiety, meditation forces me to face my anxiety and I haven't wanted to face my anxiety, my anxieties, plural, infinite ( Read more... )

It sounds like Sir Zero wants me to switch to my metal cage now that I'm locked up again ... but for that I need an emergency key at the house ... but I'm trustworthy again. I'm back on board the chastity bus. I've regained my illusion of control. I faced down my inadequacy.

I'm still inadequate. But I can face my inadequacy.

Resurrection cults, like Christianity, are not just a fraud -- I mean, the underlying story that Jesus was resurrected is a lie. There's no evidence for it, there was never any evidence for it ( Read more... )