clinging to your illusions of moral uprightness and American exceptionalism.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/olc_memos.html

Also good luck getting through those memos without becoming seriously depressed.

Vermont House and Senate pass veto proof majorities, push through Gay Marriage Bill. TAKE THAT YOU BIGOTED FUCKERS.

Sept. 2009, gay marriage maple syrup party.

Summer of '07 just popped back into my head in the shower. The memories were so fresh for that first couple of months afterward, but since then they have been far removed from me. Given that some of the most amazing things in my life happened on that trip, I am going to start telling those stories again to make sure they stay alive in my memory; to ( Read more... )

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Loose lips might sink ships, but loose gooses take trips ( Read more... )

I want to write something meaningful here but I am having trouble. I am out of practice writing down my thoughts, which adds to the problem I have always had with translating my epiphanies into word form. Certainly it doesn't help that I am extremely tired ( Read more... )

"And as to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any" (Thomas Paine ( Read more... )

I have been doing most of my reading lately poring over works on Buddhism: histories; short introductions to aspects of engaged Buddhism, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist philosophy; actual Buddhist texts from Theravada and Mahayana sources. And through it I have become increasingly depressed, not because I have some deep misunderstanding of the aims of ( Read more... )

How many of you understand the basics of our income tax system? What exactly it means when you move into a higher tax bracket? What the difference between a progressive tax and flat tax is, and why a progressive tax is generally held to make the most sense ( Read more... )