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ETA: Coalition forces? Uncheck the box for USA. Now check USA and uncheck...anyone else.

( First they came for the Communists...and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 )

Regardless of which "side" you take in the Terri Schiavo case, there's a fundamental issue here that no one seems to be addressing. Why is everything focused on whether or not this woman has to starve to death? If a person, their family, a judge, several dozen judges, and/or any combination of the above decide that there is no hope for life, why ( Read more... )

As I drove to work today, I looked with new eyes at a once familiar landscape. I was struck by the sudden acceptance that I live in a country that is foreign to me. Those "other people" - the bigots, the fearmongers, the proudly ignorant, the decidedly narrowminded - this is their America ( Read more... )

I voted. Did you?

Over the past few days, I have whittled my inbox down to 20 or so. All that's left are LJ comments. I will, over the course of the next week, *finally* reply to those, and also throw some thoughts up here. My mind is full, but my schedule is...off ( Read more... )

Someone, somewhere, must have linked my "letter". I've received a bundle of comments in the last day or so. One gentleman in particular, Donald Hensley, was so engaged that he needed two comment spaces to fully speak his mind ( Read more... )

"I am a gay American."

Jim McGreevey just came out.

Wow.

I don't have a stable full of friends, by choice. People are, more often than not, tiresome. For me to open up a space in my mind and heart for another person is an arduous, and rare occurrence. As a result, the select few friends I do have simply rock the free world ( Read more... )

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