Why I hate Godwin's Law (extremism in the defense of moderation)
Buddydarhma's entry today made me smile. It got to recommended! And so I decided to stop avoiding dkos and try another diary entry. I love dkos because its in some ways a safe place to play and...
View Article8th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance...updated (sorry)
Every year, if you live in a major American city, there's probably a transgender day of remembrance. What, you ask, has that to do with me? Should I get in my car? Hide my kids? Send a small check?...
View ArticleWhat Does _Your_ Utopia Look Like? Flowers and Daisies on Six Planks...
We're all about makin' it happen, and maybe it will...but if you had fiat for ten minutes, what would you do? The rules are simple -- you can't change the constitution. You can't ship out all of the...
View ArticleAll Against All
When I was 16 (a long time ago) my grandfather walked me down to the bank to open a new account in the big, northwestern city where I lived. There were calendars from his business at the teller cages,...
View ArticleA Tentative Reason Everything Doesn’t Suck
Sad day all around. Molly Ivins dying in the middle of her newspaper campaign. Listening to Brzezinski, Our Man In Afghanistan, once upon a time, speaking (for the moment I listened) of negotiation...
View ArticleA Broken Windows Theory Of Tyranny (from hip)
Pretty much everyone who has lived in Manhattan or the boroughs at some point has heard of Broken Windows Theory; and for anyone who doesn't like Guliani's Times Square, it is a sanitizing, irritating...
View ArticleNot really a diary for fellow geeky kossaks...
...this isn't really a diary. It's a preperation for a diary, which is in turn the culmination -- or perhaps the beginning -- of something I've been thinking about for awhile. What are the software...
View ArticleDeath, Statistics and Compassion
Every diary. OK, I'll come back later. Almost every dairy! Virginia Tech! The necessity of gun control. The absurdity of gun control. Bush in Virginia. Bush speaking! Why am I reading this?...
View ArticleA late night thank you note...
I have mixed feelings about dkos. There’s a sense in which the medium is the message, and the medium is woefully constrained, the community artificial and distant. I’ve approached it, truth to tell,...
View Article"My Woods", With Pictures
We've all got someplace to go. When I was a kid, mine started a few houses down the street. This trail was mud then; there were garter snakes, and the smell of discarded compost. Now there is a...
View ArticleDial "d" for dkos
It was just another night in the browser; a few naked boys and girls, a story by a long dead Englishman, a mordant Dorothy Parker poem, and my client’s administrative site, which was supposed to be...
View Articleand you ain't there...
I've been reading a lot about outing lately. Today I read a long peice on how Condoleeza Rice might be gay. And on how Larry Craig is a hypocrite. On how this republican, or that republican, people...
View ArticlePlease Don't Forget Us: No Stripped ENDA (updated)
I just woke up. I'm having my first cup of coffee and browsing the news. For some time I've been glad to see ENDA moving forward. As a transsexual woman, it's been hugely important to me that my...
View ArticleTop Comments 9.29.07: Kind of September Edition
I think one could begin a book, starting on a Saturday afternoon in the last weekend of September, and with just that information evoke a particular smell and temperature and feel of the wind; add a...
View ArticleENDA Update: on hold, and let's lobby...
Recent days have seen some bruising and inevitably painful discussions about a trans inclusive or non-inclusive ENDA. Today saw an update. According to Gay.com, markup of the bill has been postponed...
View ArticleThree, no...Four Current ENDA Links, and Midnight Thoughts
I've spent way too many hours in the last few days arguing ENDA issues on here. I love that people have come forward to speak on this issue, I truly hate the anti-inclusion rhetoric out there, and...
View ArticleTop Comments 10.14.07: Pretty Pictures From Yesterday Edition
Not much to say on my end tonight. Larabee State Park. Thanks to the miracle of modern compression, it's just 170k for all four lovely pictures, a bargain on DSL and one short (ideally under a...
View ArticleClass and Labor: Real People Made That: Labor In China
It is so much easier to understand a story than a generalization, a tale with a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning of a young woman’s new job in Ghanzou, thrilled and hopeful, with money to...
View ArticleHey! Sarah!
I know it's been awhile since 7th grade speech class. It was really great to see you get up there in front of all those people and talk. Why, I remember back when you gave that eight minute oratory on...
View ArticleRace, Class and Gender: A Reflection on Prop 8
My first reaction, on reading the news about proposition 8, was to think of this diary, by our very own pico. I don't live in California anymore, and none of my "real world" friends got married...but...
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It's In The P-I (In Memoriam)
We've been watching this for a week, and today it happened: the Seattle Post Intelligencer, after 146 years of publication, has silenced its presses. There will be some sort of online effort; Hearst...
View ArticleTwo or Three Things I Know For Sure (with apologies to Dorothy Allison)
Ok, this is a rant. It is late and I do not feel like writing a diary. I am not feeling especially articulate. But I need to say this, and I need to say it now.
View ArticleA Proposal for The Medical Improvement of the United States
The jammed sewer of American oil production pouring into the gulf is surely tragedy and spectacle enough for anyone. One more essay on the subject is unlikely to add an iota to your understanding,...
View ArticleA Flying Story and Some Questions (with rude poll)
I totally sympathize with all the outrage about security scanners. For years now, we've been trading dignity for the appearance of security. Fear this! Fear that! Terrorists are coming! The right...
View ArticlePrivilege (a rant)
This is a reactive diary. I'm reacting to the excellent privilege checklist on the rec list, and the many (many) responses. I'm reacting to my own life and the way people exclude me. I'm reacting to...
View ArticleGet thee behind me, outrage.
Oh outrage, how thou dost tempt me.Public employees are the new welfare queens? Really, Governor Christie? Really?I just got off the phone with my mother. She taught for nearly 30 years. She’s from...
View ArticleThis Much Is Clear To Me
If you go away, and you want it to mean anything more than going away, you have to come back. I am an old, semi-decrepit student and the year is beginning and I can’t stay long now. But I needed to...
View ArticleBetter than the rec list: Thank you
I woke this morning to find that an anonymous benefactor had given me, with a short note (more on that in a bit) a lifetime gift subscription. Since I am a student at the moment and own one pair of...
View ArticleOrgies of Violence and Sentiment
Crying hypocrisy is a fool’s game. But amid our rolling in the tragedy in Colorado like dogs in poop, I’d like you to consider the idea that the problem may not be guns, or this particular tragedy....
View ArticleLook! Over There! Russians!
You already know what I'm going to say, right? The newspapers are full of Snowden's run. Weighty statements are being made by the president, by the secretary of state, and here on the orange, diary...
View ArticleOutrage, Shocks to the Conscience, and Truth
This will be a short diary, with little or no polish.I just woke up. It was a long night, with dreams of being lost in a giant parking garage searching for a friend I could only get intermittently on...
View ArticlePlease Stop.
I had to drive 200 miles yesterday in the downpour. Sheets of rain, high spray, the Skagit high against the banks, Lake Samish looking...large...even from the road. Listening to the NPR. Voice after...
View ArticleYour 10 Dollar Doritos Purchase, or It Gets Better
Some stuff just writes itself, and you have to put it somewhere. I'm fairly sure that Daily Kos is not entirely the right somewhere, but as I have very few somewheres right now and some of you might...
View Articlethe letter I've been meaning to write
Dear Mr. President,You are about my age. I tend to assume that means a person has seen about the same things happen in the world, heard the same songs and had some of the same experiences, but of...
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A short one: get the helicopter means...
So I saw this today: What did it mean, I thought? I assumed it was in reference to the helicopter crash, and culpability. I was wrong. I googled “get the helicopter” in quotes. It is this:me.me/…If...
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