That time again...
Here's a gamut of things...
Rachie is out of the cast, hooray. For a while she was having trouble flexing her ankle and walking, but she's getting more flexible by the day. She's also been a little grumpy/needy since she came out of it, very clingy to Casey and wanting little to do with me...I'm hoping that's coming to an end. Last few days she's actually been smiley and kissy with me.
This ad, from a group that calls itself (ironically) 'nation for marriage'. In fact, they might as well call themselves 'nation for marriage for straight vanilla folks, the rest of you can go suck it, kthx', but I guess that's a little wordy. I know a lot of y'all thought those prop 8 ads were dishonest and jerky...man, you ain't seen nothing yet. This ad is straight up fear-mongering bullshit. If you want to get really mad, read their 'talking points' page. I may have to do a straight-up dissection of that ball of crazy.
I just took back a load of books to the library, most about early America...Common Sense by Thomas Paine, of course; a few books on Thomas Jefferson; a book about Native Americans in Colonial America; a biography of John Paul Jones (interesting read, that); and best of all, a biography of Robert Carter called "The First Emancipator", about the first founding father to free his slaves, and not just in his will like a bitch...he actually set about freeing them before his death. He freed more than Washington and Jefferson together--around 450--yet strangely, I had never heard of him. As the author said in the foreword, "there are two mysteries about Robert Carter...why he freed his slaves...and why nobody seemed to care". Carter was an interesting sort of guy...even before beginning his emancipation, he treated his slaves very decently...not separating families, later refusing to sell them at any price, taking their side over whites in matters of law, eventually booting white tenants off his land so he could rent that land to his freed slaves, and so forth. None of this makes him a prince among men or anything, but I think it makes him a pretty progressive guy for his time. Anyway, the book was a good read...especially when it points out that there was a "golden moment" when abolition could have happened right at the end of the 18th century...and America missed it. Slavery was on the decline up to around 1800, when the cotton gin gave it a resurgence. A bitter historical pill.
You can read it here...I don't agree with him fully, but the comments section is well worth reading, and I think promulgation of open talk of this could be a good thing.
Mr. Volk, of A Human Right, takes some awesome photos...this is my latest favorite:
Men and Women as equals
Song Lyrics:
So we found this hotel,
It was a place I knew well
We made magic that night...
Oh, he did everything right...
He brought the woman out of me
So many times...easily...
And in the morning when he woke,
All I left him was a note...
I told him I am the flower, you are the seed
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree
Dont try to find me, please dont you dare
Just live in my memory, you'll always be there...
--Heart, "All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You"
Rachie is out of the cast, hooray. For a while she was having trouble flexing her ankle and walking, but she's getting more flexible by the day. She's also been a little grumpy/needy since she came out of it, very clingy to Casey and wanting little to do with me...I'm hoping that's coming to an end. Last few days she's actually been smiley and kissy with me.
This ad, from a group that calls itself (ironically) 'nation for marriage'. In fact, they might as well call themselves 'nation for marriage for straight vanilla folks, the rest of you can go suck it, kthx', but I guess that's a little wordy. I know a lot of y'all thought those prop 8 ads were dishonest and jerky...man, you ain't seen nothing yet. This ad is straight up fear-mongering bullshit. If you want to get really mad, read their 'talking points' page. I may have to do a straight-up dissection of that ball of crazy.
I just took back a load of books to the library, most about early America...Common Sense by Thomas Paine, of course; a few books on Thomas Jefferson; a book about Native Americans in Colonial America; a biography of John Paul Jones (interesting read, that); and best of all, a biography of Robert Carter called "The First Emancipator", about the first founding father to free his slaves, and not just in his will like a bitch...he actually set about freeing them before his death. He freed more than Washington and Jefferson together--around 450--yet strangely, I had never heard of him. As the author said in the foreword, "there are two mysteries about Robert Carter...why he freed his slaves...and why nobody seemed to care". Carter was an interesting sort of guy...even before beginning his emancipation, he treated his slaves very decently...not separating families, later refusing to sell them at any price, taking their side over whites in matters of law, eventually booting white tenants off his land so he could rent that land to his freed slaves, and so forth. None of this makes him a prince among men or anything, but I think it makes him a pretty progressive guy for his time. Anyway, the book was a good read...especially when it points out that there was a "golden moment" when abolition could have happened right at the end of the 18th century...and America missed it. Slavery was on the decline up to around 1800, when the cotton gin gave it a resurgence. A bitter historical pill.
You can read it here...I don't agree with him fully, but the comments section is well worth reading, and I think promulgation of open talk of this could be a good thing.
Mr. Volk, of A Human Right, takes some awesome photos...this is my latest favorite:
Men and Women as equals
Song Lyrics:
So we found this hotel,
It was a place I knew well
We made magic that night...
Oh, he did everything right...
He brought the woman out of me
So many times...easily...
And in the morning when he woke,
All I left him was a note...
I told him I am the flower, you are the seed
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree
Dont try to find me, please dont you dare
Just live in my memory, you'll always be there...
--Heart, "All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You"