For the sword outwears its sheath,
and the soul wears out the breast,
and the heart must pause to breathe,
and Love itself have rest.

This evening, I attended a panel on poverty by the Understanding Poverty Project held at the Live Oak Friends Meeting Hall. There were 3 speakers, 2 of whom had been homeless and were now activist-organisers & one a policy expert from Commissioner El Franco Lee's office ( Read more... )

Racist Swiss People's Party triumphs over freedom.

Check out one of their 2007 election materials:


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We are the music-makers ( Read more... )

Cute so far, I'd say its main functionality is in group creative projects or distributed road trip planning. I will probably add Google Voice to my lists of services I accept from the All Seeing Eye at some nearby time.

Packing tonight! It sounds better if you song it. I will probably have a fair amount of work in the morning, but we hope to be on the raod in the early afternoon. We'll see how lucky I am, I guess.

Calvin Trillin lays down the smack (hat tip texaslawchickA youthful error? Yes, perhaps ( Read more... )

Oklahoma's Bill 1595 attempts to further restrict reproductive rights in the Mediocre State via public shaming with the posting of the following data ( Read more... )

I was invited by Justinian (dreamingkat's youngest) to T.H. Rodger's "Donuts with Dad" this morning. It was a nice time, and I got to offer some advice to Evan, who is on First UU's current Search committee, but the best moment happened while were still in the line to get inside ( Read more... )

A well-crafted paragraph from the Washington Post's Jacqui Salmon ( Read more... )