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An open letter on the newest debt ceiling deal.
A letter I sent to my legislators, and to the President. Please feel free to plagiarize, modify, and send it to your own legislators. Only do so quickly. Tomorrow it may be too late.
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A Semi-Farewell (and a shameless plug for my new blogging space)
Hello to all of my Livejournal friends. I regret to inform you that, in part because of the DDoS madness that has struck the LJ servers, I have decided to relocate my blog elsewhere. I have set up a WordPress installation over at Twice Cooked -- formerly my photography site -- and will be blogging from there. There are a few things you should ( Read more... ) -
Dear Mr. President.
Once again, it's Friday. Which means that it's time to write to my national elected officials. Here is my letter to President Obama (a version of which also went out to my senators and representative). Please feel free to plagiarize, adapt, and distribute to your own elected officials. Please.
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Squash-blossom pasta sauce
I've posted a recipe for squash-blossom pasta sauce before, but I've done some revising, and wanted to post it again. This came out perhaps better than any other iteration I've tried. I would highly recommend it, especially if you are like me and have some overly enthusiastic summer squash dominating your garden ( Read more... ) -
X-Men: First Class
Know ahead of time that this is a really tough topic for me. But I'm going to try to explain it as clearly as possible, here ( Read more... ) -
A couple of bits of news:
- As of now, on a probationary basis, I am officially among the ranks of the Kubuntu faithful. I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 this weekend, and I found their break with the Gnome UI so distressing that I ... broke with Gnome myself. For KDE. And though it is weird, and though there are certain things I don't like, what I do like is the sense of ( Read more... )
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Remembering the Civil War.
On this day in 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, effectively marking the beginning of the Civil War.
Here is a short excerpt from Walt Whitman's Specimen Days, that I think sums up everything we need to remember about that war, or any war. The Civil War is not a historical event. The relevant facts are not the ( Read more... ) -
Clucking my tongue at the President.
Here is the unexpurgated text of the letter that I sent to President Obama this afternoon. Unfortunately, the 'contact us' portion of the President's web site restricts letter-writers to 2,500 characters. And so I had to cut out the second to last paragraph. Nonetheless ...
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