I've been listening to Bernie Sanders in his one man filibuster. it just got real hard. Because he is reading letters form Vermonters and they could be from my mother, from the people I grew up among. They describe my childhood...plasticing the windows, shutting off parts of the house to save on heat, selling off whatever you can to pay for the ( Read more... )

flying back to SF tomorrow. spent much time out of cell phone range and away from the computer. ahhhhh. felt fucking GREAT! But seriously, if there's something that happened in the past 10 days and you posted about it and me not knowing about it will mean I understand NOTHING!!! about you and your life/your posts from here on out, please nudge ( Read more... )

so yesterday I was all excitedly sharing the news with jeff that the vermont legislature ahd over ridden the governors veto of gay marrriage. Natasha asked some questions and then asked, what about here? and I explained we were waiting for a court to make a decision, and then I told her, "you know, by the time you are a grown up, I think you'll ( Read more... )

via delux_vivens I found this
discussion of a book that references the Vermont Eugenics Project

I grew up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and I come from an old yankee vermont family (although I now live on the other coast) and I had, up until about an hour ago, never heard of the Vermont Eugenics Program. Growing up, I was barely aware even of the ( Read more... )

From Z Net:apparently, the city of Burlington, where I spent several interesting years in my late teens/early 20's, has municipally owned cable company! Now that's cool! I had no idea! I found out from reading this article which is about how a bunch of what seems to be islamophopbes are agitating to get the municipally owned cable company to ( Read more... )

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=12154

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