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I don't do this much anymore...
I used to write scores and scores of poems every year. Now I think I've written a half dozen since the birth of my daughter. Kind of hard to find time. But a passage in a book on environmentalism and a news article about a horrific act committed in the name of God, inspired this last night, so I thought I'd share. Which is strangely scary.
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ARSENIC IN THE WATER
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/29/roane-county-exec-expects-tva-change-ash-storage-m
A few steps ahead of the government warnings, again, thanks to some savvy friends and a little "better safe" behaviour. We are now ( Read more... ) -
We're dreaming of an ash-and-soot-covered Christmas....
Okay, so now the dike breach has made all national news outlets and caused my mother to call and ask if we were okay (the show she was watching made it sound like it had happened just now and was explosive). So for the idly curious, I have a map.
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Gay Marriage Is A Question Of LOVE
Keith Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love
Everyone deserves the same chance at permanence and happiness
Nov. 10: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann disagrees with the passing of Proposition 8 in California and urges people to accept love between people of the same sex.
Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the ( Read more... ) -
TO DONATE TO TVUUC & WUUC
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For those who requested information on how to donate funds to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and to Westside Unitarian Universalist Church (WUUC is TVUUC's sister church, half of the victims, including Linda Kraeger, who died Sunday night from her gunshot wounds, were from WUUC).
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Well, you go, guys and girls.
Unlocked, and embedded video, because I think it's very important: (Caveat forgotten: I'm not a Christian, but...)
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Dear Senator Obama,
As I am sure you very often hear, I am looking forward with all my heart to the day I will be able to say 'President' Obama. I have promoted and advertised you all I can, and of course, voted for you.
I am watching the campaign with more enthusiasm than I have ever watched politics in my life. I was first able to vote when ( Read more... ) -
ZOMG scary stuff ;)
Just goes to show that a very good photographer can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Or a black leather bondage purse.
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CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! (from today)
