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Sitting in rehearsal, watching other people getting blocked & wishing I'd eaten more before I left the house. Ah, the glamor!
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Jews who don't get it, and one who does
I am watching Israel bomb Gaza with incalculable horror; I don't care that Hamas started this round, or that the Palestinians have been a political football for the Arab world for six decades. This is wrong, and it's counterproductive, and I keep believing that Jews should know better, even when the evidence is thick as bodies on the ground that we ( Read more... ) -
a sweet holiday story
This warms my cynical heart. You might even say it bakes it a little.
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today's animal heroes
I've been wishing I could help the people who have to give up their animals because they're being foreclosed out of their homes. Here's a couple who are just doing it. They began their "Rude Ranch" shelter a decade ago to focus on neglected and abused animals, and it's the first shelter I've ever heard of where the special needs animals sleep with ( Read more... ) -
hydration
Savia is trying to raise enough money to buy water filters for a nifty school in India. Just 44 more bucks and the Parijat Academy will be able to provide clean drinking water for 500 kids. 500 kids! Check her journal for more information about the school, her fundraising project, etc ( Read more... ) -
let's begin with
...all the heterosexual marriages that have not produced children within a few years of their consummation ( Read more... ) -
Wow, people available!
As much as I love Ti Couz, the preponderance of E Bay folk gives me pause. Maybe someplace tasty in Berkeley?
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pilgrimage
This news item on a study suggesting that performing the hajj makes Muslims more tolerant reminds me that Malcolm X had the same experience, near the end of his life. In the Autobiography, he talks about how when made the hajj, he felt his heart opening to the white Muslims he encountered there, and to people everywhere ( Read more... )
