July 2009
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“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the...”
– Albert Camus
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reading through poetry i wrote about four years ago.
life is so different and so the same.
Consider me walking the plank. I’m about to jump ship.
Tumblr, as a blogging platform, is well-suited to certain styles of blogs and certain bloggers themselves. Short posts and media-oriented (mainly photographs, video and audio) forming together to create a kind of “Internet scrapbook.”
When I first joined about a year and a half ago, the community felt different, and...
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Some things to remember when picking your side in the nation’s latest debate craze. (Gay marriage equality is so last year, this is the new trend.) Yes, I’m (still) talking about healthcare reform. Spend a little less time drawing party lines and draw your own conclusions instead.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention —
There are about 43.6 million...
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Millions Spent On Ad War Over Health Care Overhaul... →
From NPR.com — With just a few weeks left for Congress to meet the deadline President Obama set for passing a health care overhaul bill, interest groups have ramped up their TV campaigns. In effect, they’re spending millions of dollars to refight the air wars of 15 years ago, when the battlefield was the health care initiative under President Clinton.
The money is flowing, just as...
WatchStop motion animation with HP printers.
How can they do this awesome thing, but whenever I try to print a single page I get a jam? It is very awesome, though!
(via jingc, from Core77)
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Oregon Same-sex Couples Granted Automatic...
(via fuckyeahportland)
From Basic Rights Oregon — This week the Oregon Court of Appeals issued an important decision backing fairness for lesbian parents.
Under Oregon law, if a married opposite-sex couple has a baby via artificial insemination, the husband is automatically made the father, even if he has no biological relationship to the child. But this ‘right of automatic parentage’...
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Mormon 'kiss-in' in Utah leads to shouting match →
From the AP — A mass-kissing protest near the Mormon church temple Sunday drew a shouting match between gay activists and a group of faithful Mormons.
For the second consecutive weekend, about 100 people gathered to stage a “kiss-in” to protest the treatment of two gay men cited for trespassing July 9 after they shared a kiss on the plaza owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of...
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Open question: do I make sense? I mean, I know I can compose a coherent paragraph, but a lot of times I reread things that I write, things that are so garbled and convoluted they leave me with one eyebrow raised wondering if I ever get the point across. I think it’s even worse when I open my mouth. Am I ever getting my point across?
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Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries... →
From Denialism Blog: — A dishonest campaign has started against healthcare reform in this country and the first shot has come from Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), a group purporting to show that patients in universal health systems suffer from government interference in health care. To bolster their argument, they have a pile of anecdotes from people around the world who have...
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Continued from this post from technoLibertarian.
1) There is no right to health care.
2) The Constitution doesn’t give government the power to provide health insurance.
The Constitution didn’t (and doesn’t) provide a lot of things we take for granted today. It was created as a flexible document to be able to change with the times and progression of the country through amendments...
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Former President Bill Clinton recently publicly stated he supports marriage equality, saying, “I think it’s wrong for someone to stop someone else from getting involved in same-sex marriage.”
These remarks contrast President Obama’s stance supporting civil unions (planting himself firmly in the middle of the debate). I get that President Obama has more at stake...
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Fellow members of Insomniacs Anonymous (Tumblr division) — let’s up the game. Google Chat? AIM Chat? Hat Chat?
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“I don’t know if you don’t realize how much I like you.”
– Shutlow
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Sometimes I drive myself crazy. I don’t act like this — at least I thought I didn’t. I’m trying to change, but more like trying to have a change of heart. Since when am I the jealous guy? I always care, but since when do I care this much?
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shutlow: Observation: there are a LOT of m4m posts in the new york missed connections. like almost a disproportionate amount. which is cool; i’m always happy to see a m4m one in the wweek. but now i’m pondering what that might mean. more gay guys in new york? more forward/lonely/sad/craigslist using gay guys in new york? is this all just a coincidence? huh. i might check the portland ones now.
I...
Possibly going to see “Moon” at Cinemagic on Hawthorne this Friday. Anyone else up for a movie?
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Washington's secretive religious power sect →
I’ve been watching Maddow’s coverage on the C Street House, a religious sect that is home to seven Senators and connects two major Republican sex scandals — Nevada’s John Ensign and South Carolina’s Mark Sanford.
According to Jeff Sharlet’s book “The Family,” the C Street House is part of the secret fundamentalist power base in American politics. ...
My clothes, this blog, my bed, this house, the world —
Nothing seems to fit today.
Time to tune out for a while.
I’m going to browse somewhere that doesn’t require a browser.
I’m going to look at art that I can see my reflection in.
I’m going to make a friend that doesn’t need a friend request.
I’m going to chat without the sound of clicking keys.
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Library Hours at Portland Bars →
A friend of mine e-mailed me about this thing called Library Hours. According to the Web site, it is “a night where an appointed bar will turn the music down, the lights up, and discourage drunk squealy people.” They encourage patrons to bring their laptops or other artistic projects, hang out at a bar and drink. While working.
Okay, I get the idea behind it. I get the concept,...
I am a revisionist.
I can’t tell you the number of blogs I’ve started, written in, reread and deleted. Sometimes I’m too quick with the keyboard. Click first, ask questions later. What sounded perfect one minute sounds ridiculous by the time I read it over. But the Internet makes everything deleteable. Clean slates at the push of a button. Tell me, is it breaking the rules?
I’ll let...
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It’s always a bitch when your ex-boyfriend gets hotter after you break up. Just saying.
