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a terrible infectious disease has crossed our border! it's the plague of dumb-ass!
So of course I am greatly enjoying the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. But I was also, unkindly, entertained by the NY Times retraction of the wording of a May 19 article about her: they had called her Puerto Rican parents "immigrants." Although it is true that PR remains a colony, not a state, Puerto Ricans are still US ( Read more... ) -
and now, a few words from our ...
The Center for Anti-Violence Education (under whose umbrella is Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts, where I trained for many years) is having a fund-raiser. This is the organization that saved my life. That's not a metaphor, not an exaggeration. They taught me how to connect my spirit to my mind to my body. They taught me what "anti-racism" means. They ( Read more... ) -
gardening under the influence
So I have spent the past twenty-four hours or so coming down with a flu, and thus being unable to get very much done that I needed to get done and also not thinking too clearly. This, obviously, was precisely the right time to finish up getting the vegetable beds in. So I want to record here, before the fever gets any worse and I forget ( Read more... ) -
I have posted over at dreamwidth but I still don't have the cross-posting thing down so
Please go read my entertaining remarks about the latest episode of RaceFail 09 over here:
http://lolaraincoat.dreamwidth.org/339.html
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my sleepers will wake in another America
I'm pretty sure that the title to this post - "My dreamers will wake in another America" is a line of poetry from a Patti Smith album cover from the 1970s. But who wrote it originally? Or am I just making it up? I feel a bit haunted.
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VERY IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
Hey! It is idlerat's birthday! AND it is eponis's birthday! AND AND, for those of you who know her, it is also the birthday of my beloved sister S.! Happy Birthday to them!11 ( Read more... ) -
There are maybe three people reading this who will understand the TOTAL FREAKY COOLNESS of this
Okay, I spent way too much time today tracking down Spanish-language music videos about Obama. I have a vague idea about an article but basically I am just too tired to do my actual work.
So anyway. I found this. It will only make sense to those of us who know the oeuvre of Pedro Infante and can appreciate the sheer utter brilliance of ( Read more... ) -
The debates are over and thank God for that
The Democrats Abroad with whom we watched the debate again got really rowdy at every mention of Canada in this debate. Canadian oil WHOOO!!!!! Canadian HEALTH CARE YEEEEE-HAW!!!!!1!
Otherwise, three four points:
First, did anyone else notice McCain's completely unnecessary and factually inaccurate mention of the "tragedy in Dallas," i.e. the ( Read more... )