Month: May 2004
What Kind of Writer Am I?
Posted on May 6, 2004 in Quizzes
So much one can gather from answering only three questions
Black Helicopter
Posted on May 6, 2004 in Neighborhood
A faint wasp-shape, the color of a bluebottle, passed maybe a hundred, maybe two hundred feet over my head.
Post-Modernism vs. Democracy
Posted on May 5, 2004 in Anthropology Reading Social Justice Thinking
I agree that the motives of post-modernists are admirable, that they do rightly perceive biases that white male scientists often bring to the study of human behavior (in particular), and that there are other ways to knowledge; however, I do not like the way that they have opened the door to sloppy thinking and some very wrong takes on the nature of human life and the Universe that threaten to undermine and destroy all that our parents and grandparents struggled to establish for the good of all the children of this country of ours.
Certainties
Posted on May 5, 2004 in Attitudes Crosstalk
….it took ambivalence to be that way. I don’t think I want to return to that kind of open-mindedness.
10.5 and 200
Posted on May 5, 2004 in California Watch Childhood Folly Watch Global Warming
This fanciful idea of California falling into the sea trumps the public interest over the reality of the flooding of our lowlands all over the world.
Change
Posted on May 5, 2004 in Loneliness
Every day that I get to feeling better about myself, one more person leaves my life.
Viva Cinco de Mayo!
Posted on May 5, 2004 in Festivals
This year, as the United States embarks on its own adventure in the Middle East, I hope that we will remember Cinco de Mayo and grant to the Iraqis the same right to choose that we expect all Americans to enjoy.
Focus on the Family
Posted on May 4, 2004 in Citizenship Compassion Reading
Family is the beginning of compassion, not the limit.
Neither Pro-Life nor Pro-Choice: Merely for noncriminalization
Posted on May 4, 2004 in Abortion
I support the Woman above both ideologies.
To Mike Golby
Posted on May 4, 2004 in Courage & Activism Liberals & Progressives Occupation of Iraq Social Justice
It’s tiring as hell to do so and then hear that I am not doing enough, that because I am not hammering at this twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, I must be just “another American”.
Jeremiad against the Purblind
Posted on May 4, 2004 in Accountability Appeals and Goodwill Occupation of Iraq Rage & Annoyance
This peace that I see is dearly bought by others.
Choice and Depression
Posted on May 4, 2004 in Consuming Depression Liberty Reading
We dwell on what we don’t have or we become monsters who press to have all the choices available to them so that a “mistake” can be easily rectified by a different purchase.
