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On Planned Parenthood
Image via Wikipedia The Susan J. Komen foundation pulled its Planned Parenthood funding earlier this week (as I’m sure everyone reading this knows by now) and I am upset. Unfortunately, the controversy...
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Plinky Prompt: My last memorable Dream
Plinky asks about my dreams. I had weird dreams on Saturday night. Very weird dreams, and lots of them. The one that really got to me was the one where the murdered girl appeared on my doorstep. There...
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Soapbox
As you have most likely heard, there was a school shooting today. You might have also heard about the shooting at Clackamas Town Center in the Portland area on Tuesday. I have been trying to process...
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Thoughts on the Boston Marathon bombing
Bill Iffrig gets back up and finishes the race. Photo by John Tlumaki I was crushed yesterday when I heard the news about the bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. As a runner I couldn’t...
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“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than...
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scattered thoughts about the election
What. The Fuck. Did we really just elect a reality tv star with no political experience to speak of into the office of President of the United States? Even worse, that he has emboldened racists and...
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“Nevertheless, she persisted”
Last night on the Senate floor Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced by Senator Mitch McConnell as she tried to read the letter that Corretta Scott King wrote in 1986 criticizing Jeff Sessions and his...
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This is not normal
So I had my nice respite from the news yesterday but then in the evening after dinner I relaxed on the couch, opened Twitter, and saw this tweet from 45. It bothered me. Not because he seems overly...
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Neoliberalism
“I often think that Neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy. … it looks like water pipes leaking lead in Flint. It looks like foreclosed mortgages on homes that were built to collapse....
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Dystopia
I am completely sickened by what happened last night and today in Charlottesville. I still can’t believe that I saw images of white supremacists walking down the street, fully embracing Hitler and...
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Fight the Power
So this song popped up on my iTunes on my drive back to my office from a program at the other library up the Mountain. Seems appropriate after Trump’s incredible press conference this afternoon. Filed...
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Today my heart is with Barcelona
This morning as I was getting ready for work I saw the scarf I bought when I was there and it reminded me of this beautiful, amazing, vibrant city. I even entertained, for a moment, a thought about...
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