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When you're not a religious person, you make your own ideas about death and dying. I don't know what happens when a person dies. But what I believe is this: when somebody dies, no matter who they are and what they might have done while they were here on earth, their death deserves peace and privacy. At least a pause ( Read more... ) -
Iran
Over on Twitter I was asked why I'm 'silent on Iran'. Twitter, addiction aside, is not the place for a real discussion, and I shudder to think that it ever could be. (I know there is merit to making concise arguments, but not that concise ( Read more... ) -
i am not your girlfriend.
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Oh baby, atheism never looked so good.
A disappointing result on Proposition. 8. I have no Olbermann-esque speech to give. What I don't understand is how there are obviously people that don't see this as gross discrimination. The reason this is discrimination, and an abhorrent discrimination at that, is this: when any portion of the adult population (and obviously my argument ( Read more... ) -
Even when I'm old & grey, I'm going to feel the way I do today
Sometimes I sit and think about what I've learnt during my twenties. These years are closing a lot differently than they opened. They also got progressively better. One of the things I think I learnt the most about is friendship. There will always be friends you have, friends you lose, and friends that are so much a part of you, you can only ( Read more... ) -
I know they just did not.
I made a promise that I wouldn't criticize the National-led government every time they did something I personally didn't like, and would save my rant card for something that really, really, really made my blood boil.
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I heart Helen
I was just waiting for a major international paper to confirm it - and here it is.
Helen Clark to head UNDP
That's my girl. I'm all kinds of proud, without any real reason to be. I think that's a post that's more appropriate to her awesomeness. Onwards and upwards indeed! -
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I just signed a petition asking Prime Minister Gordon Brown to include a representative from the African Union at the G20 - a group of leaders of the world's twenty largest economies - summit in the UK this spring. This will be a key summit for shaping the road the world takes out of the financial crisis, and it's crucial that the world's poorest ( Read more... ) -
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I love when The Universe eerily taps into something relevant that had happened to me during the day.
You can rest assured, Deva, that those who have hurt you had absolutely no idea of what they were doing and what was really going on ( Read more... )