It seems as though when I find myself in a situation where there is obvious conflict (not just differing opinions, but defensiveness or anger combined with different opinions), I handle the situation itself fairly well. (I can still function in the heat of the moment ( Read more... )

So I got an email today from Mitch Stewart, the Director of Organizing for America -- that's what little is left of Obama for America (OfA), Obama's grassroots organization. After he used OfA to win the Presidential election, he apparently lost interest in the bottom-up, transparent, listening to his supporters part of OfA, because shortly after ( Read more... )

"If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal ( Read more... )

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Sometimes sexism is difficult to find. It must be teased out with careful examination of the source material, turning the lens this way and that, analyzing every metaphor.

And sometimes (link to Survivor video page), sometimes it jumps right out at ya. Once CBS posts tonight's episode, in the 26th minute by my Tivo, it jumps ( Read more... )

Oh, wow! MUCH better message!

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This article: The Inside Scoop on Your Introvert Friends and the Theory of Spoons (pdf), which I have found as efficacious in explaining depression as the author has found it in explaining Lupus, are two must-have resources for any aspiring jaciem scholar.

(Also probably helpful in understanding other introverts or anyone dealing with a long-term

(Yeah, yeah, I know. LJ Icon on DW post. Until somebody ports them over, though... And don't ask me, Graphics!Girl I ain't.)

So, I signed up to do
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So, the sad thing is not only that the highest-paid CEO-with-gonads-on-the-outside, Lawrence Ellison of Oracle, made $557 million, which is 47.2 times what the highest-paid CEO-with-gonads-on-the-inside, Andrea Jung of Avon, made: $11.8 million.

It's also sad that you have to go down 111 places on Forbes' master list of CEO pay to find Ms. Jung ( Read more... )

R.I.P. Mary Travers.

Along with Joan Baez's From Every Stage, Mary Travers' first solo album, titled simply Mary, was a staple in my Mother's house. I learned to sing along with these two wonderful women and was schooled in activism by them and my Mother equally ( Read more... )