for years, education reform and health care reform were issues that meant a lot to me. in the past few years, prison reform (particularly, letting ex-cons vote) has been important to me.
but knowing so many people who’ve been raped, and so many people who’ve been devastated by being raped, I detest it. ( Read more )
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i’m watching we were soldiers with my dad. it’s father’s day, i have an incredible dad, and even if i didn’t have an incredible dad, i probably still wouldn’t object to watching this movie. that said, the fact that he’s great adds an extra level of needed acceptance to the situation.
it’s a war movie. i try to avoid war movies. ( Read more )
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my initial reaction was similar to my reaction when i heard about 9/11 – shock and disbelief. but while my emotions on 9/11 hovered around shock, now i’m feeling ( Read more )
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you want to know what’s the funniest thing about knst’s “rush limbaugh: straight shooter” ad?
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so, i’ve thought about my last post, “exponential hate”, and i realized that there was a lot of anger emanating from that piece, much more than i’d like. i can’t say that i particularly mind being angry, but i’m not thrilled with the amount i was expressing, nor with the fact that a lot of my anger seemed to be my reaction to others’ vitriol, hate and anger. ( Read more )
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has it seemed that the level of hatred in the u.s. has significantly expounded? i’ve been pondering that. i’ve been vacillating between whether i’m feeling increasingly paranoid or whether these feelings and instincts are justified. for instance, there have been reports that there is 244% increase in militia groups in this country. that is insane. i get it – some white people are freaking out about having a black president. their idea about what “their america” is feels threatened (gotta love when immigrants have the nerve to be indignant about “their country” changing. fear leads to stupidity. i understand that. still… ( Read more )
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i want to dive into my normal after-work news redux, but i need to type this or else i won’t get it out.
i was just listening to kfax, a christian radio station. the host, craig roberts, was talking to a guest about the cross on the property case that was in front of the supreme court today. now, i haven’t read the particulars about the case but i saw a headline about it in huffington post. i have no problem with the cross being there. i don’t see why someone who’s no longer an employee at the now-national preserve wants to sue over it (“person, you don’t even work there any more; get over yourself”).
that said, the guest on the show started talking about the persecution of christians in the united states. that was the first thing to piss me off.
the next thing was when he was talking basically about the erosion of our society, freedom of church and state, etc. being caused by leftists and secularists. ( Read more )
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