Hubby is giving his amazing paper on Dalà and delirium RIGHT NOW. All the other speakers are friends, especially Freddie. It looks like a crazy lineup, but all of this is fascinating and real and stimulating and fun. Me? I have to stay home. Sometimes I feel as though I need a wife. Do I even count as an intellectual anymore? Wahhhh Of course, I did get to experience the Molly reunion. Maybe that’s more important.
What a beautiful present on a Saturday morning! It is rare to see someone write on this set of issues with such precision and clarity. Gigantic kudos to Jeff Fecke, and a huge thank you to Mark Crispin Miller for sharing this with me! The F Word By Jeff Fecke | October 27, 2010 Please go comment on the original post! There are epithets that decent people shy away from using. One obvious example is the use of racist, ethnic,…
Don’t buy the right-wing propaganda! It’s become very clear what Republican – and Teabagger – candidates will do. Vote Democratic! Action Sponsored by: Organizing for America at Change.org. Petitions by Change.org|Start a Petition » In 2008, Americans in record numbers voted for change. But the health insurance companies, the Wall Street banks, and the special interests are already eyeing this November’s elections as an opportunity to put their allies back in power. Many Republican candidates have openly promised to run…
Seeing this much love can only bring higher awareness… and tears. What are we fighting for? Why do greed and corruption and needless death still triumph over love and caring and thriving? Have we learned nothing at all? Bring them home. Bring them home. Bring them all home – everywhere.
I’ve been getting all the regular emails that I expect this time of year. It makes me sad that a form of blind nationalism has seemingly replaced authentic American patriotism. “Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not…
I always loved Victoria Jackson on Saturday Night Live – but of course I thought her persona was a put-on for comic effect. Guess what? It doesn’t look that way. This display actually makes me feel more sorry for, and a little bit less angry at, the people that have been so woefully misled. I could parse this whole thing, but why? See for yourself. Sadness.