Some exciting news - - I am going to try to arrange my year to attend the North American Worker Cooperative Conference in Quebec City, Quebec this coming October 13 - 15. Some of my colleagues and I might present some kind of workshop or paper on Peer Review, which I have written astonishingly little about on this blog ( Read more... )

I hung out with Tracey last night. She was in town from Green Bay carting along with her (in her car) all the worldly possessions she will need in Denver ( Read more... )

Not exactly true. There is half a head of lettuce, three scallions, five potatoes, onions, and the scant remains of some Wheaties--no milk ( Read more... )

I find this Gabrielle Giffords assassination attempt and the killing of innocent bystanders at a mall in Arizona to be particularly disturbing. Once the public discourse is affected, because people fear for their lives, we have really lost an essential piece of democracy in America ( Read more... )

my fucking christ, these people in power here are actually talking about the elimination of the right of public workers to unionize and bargain collectively.

if they succeed, bloodshed won't be far behind--it's history doomed to repeat itself

I'm trying to psych myself up for it, but I'd rather be somewhere on Halsted Street in Chicago or worse. But alas, being gay in a big city costs money--of which I have none. So tonight it's the road for me. Driving from 3 p.m. until 3 a.m. Then on Saturday is the Rose Bowl, so we expect the bar crowd on New Year's Day to be unusually busy. Finally ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, you fucks! See below how I hate Christmas. But maybe I like you, so here I share for you my Christmas pearl of wisdom. You aint' gettn any presents ( Read more... )

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Here is a what it looks like crossing under the city's main thoroughfare, East Washington Avenue, about thirty blocks away from the capitol building. A lot of the early part of the year was like this picture--spent waiting until I could move out of the house I shared with Todd.


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I fear for how my friends, family, colleagues, and everyone else will be affected by the right wing fundamentalist christian fucks who have now taken complete control of my state: both houses of the legislature, the governorship (the new lieutenant governor is a Sarah Palin clone), the attorney general and even the state treasurer have gone over to ( Read more... )