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So, at the start of the month, one of my friends reminds me with their own post that being out is something continual. It’s not a new thing, some of us tend to be a little more invisible and have to work at our visibility. So I thought I would do the same. Only I […]

It hasn’t been a century since what is euphemistically called the “Mexican Repatriation”. Maybe a little less than eighty years since it ended. It is better described in modern terms as one of the ethnic cleansings the US has engaged in. We’re repeating it. No matter how soon we cut off what is happening now, […]

Listening to the radio as two experts discuss the rise in the suicide rate in the US. They’re dancing around some of the blunter, more obvious ways in which this rise comes to be. Or describing a downstream consequence. I also feel like I should tick off a bingo space for mention of smartphones and […]

The new president of the NRA is utterly delusional here: “They’re not activists—this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America. You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of […]

Current earworm is one that doesn’t exist in reality. It’s TMBG imitating Michal Stipe in a Fingertips style short. The lyrics entire are, “I haaaaate everything. I hate everythiiiing.” This sometimes comes up when my head replays some past embarrassment or current fear of embarrassment and then also reflexively tries to push it away. It’s […]

What is wisdom? What? What even is wisdom? And how? When where why?! … Written large or small… Maybe both? Wisdom is said by some to be knowing what the right action is at the right time, and in carrying out that action. In that sense, wisdom is more than experience. Experience is merely the […]

This makes a good case for more open immigration, but let’s also back this up a step. http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/immigration-worker-shortage-rotting-crops/ (This is by now, an older article. But it’s a good launching point for the discussion.) We have crop loss because we can’t get outside immigrant labor into the U.S. because of the ridiculously xenophobic immigration debate […]

So, here’s a vet walking the talk. Does so aloud for all to see and hear. And what’s the response from those opposed to that walk? Yeah… These are people pretty much proving his point. http://www.newsweek.com/man-viral-facebook-post-gun-control-harassment-abuse-853670 They’re the loudest people, they don’t represent all assault-style gun owners? I speculate. But… too bad, that. They represent […]