because otherwise i share all my articles and websites in a single, thinly explained torrent.

politics, news, and objects of thought

first, andrew sullivan performs a fascinating and fresh reading of obama's candidacy.

then, so this is weird: "the neighor picked up a crowbar non-threateningly"?!?! and the transwoman gets charged with aggravated ( Read more... )

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all this week i have passed in waves through the states of competent center of attention and despondent self-berating wreck. usually no one gets a look at the latter part. not even my counselor, this week. i told her about making it home in softball and about hammering out my insane schedule and about going tomorrow to d.c. travel. i hate to pack. ( Read more... )

such a day. i talked to maia for most of it; damn, do i miss her. she's in mississippi, starting skool at a big and scary university. she's living in a dorm and i'm going to write her a quatrain. she's avoiding her roommate and i'm recommending country albums. she's getting lost looking for the bookstore and i'm ordering pepper spray. it's tough ( Read more... )

"They want to breakdown the white Christian male power structure of which you are a part, and so am I."
--bill o'reilly

yes.

also, in ledbetter v goodyear, ruth badass ginsburg read aloud her dissent against the ruling that employers are protected from workplace discrimination lawsuits after 180 days. stick it to the white male power structure, ruth.