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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | |
shetterly
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kit_kindred
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10:21p |
Grinch Night 2
Survived night two
long day
think we had two fights by 6:55 Am. And more continued throughout day. One of my students gave another a broken nose. Good times...
nasty headache all day-presumably caused my makeup/hair.
Made being the Grinch even more fun
Sound was a little better tonight
in other news, while one might think the being i nthe play with the Powers that be would provide them an opportunity to perhaps make me feel valued or like i'd get hired next week, such is not the case
still no love for the grinch |
timprov
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11:44p |
Post-Flickr walk.
Maybe it's just being really, really tired, but I'm actually pretty happy right now. Thought it was worth posting about.
Current Mood: boppin' along |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | |
shetterly
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shetterly
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1:06a |
Five impossible points in the Dalai Lama’s Peace Plan http://shetterly.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/five-impossible-points-in-the-dalai-lamas-peace-plan/ http://shetterly.wordpress.com/?p=2110 My apologies to those who are thoroughly bored by Tibet and the Dalai Lama. I keep getting questioned, so I do a little more research— I’m just a fool for facts.
So, what’s wrong with the Dalai Lama’s call for an autonomous Tibet? Well, if you read it fast, it’s lovely. From the Dalai Lama’s site, Five point Peace Plan:
This peace plan contains five basic components:
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Transformation of the whole of Tibet into a zone of peace;
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Abandonment of China’s population transfer policy which threatens the very existence of the Tibetans as a people;
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Respect for the Tibetan people’s fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms;
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Restoration and protection of Tibet’s natural environment and the abandonment of China’s use of Tibet for the production of nuclear weapons and dumping of nuclear waste;
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Commencement of earnest negotiations on the future status of Tibet and of relations between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples.
So, what does that mean?
1. I propose that the whole of Tibet, including the eastern provinces of Kham and Amdo, be transformed into a zone of “Ahimsa”, a Hindi term used to mean a state of peace and non-violence.
The establishment of such a peace zone would be in keeping with Tibet’s historical role as a peaceful and neutral Buddhist nation and buffer state separating the continent’s great powers.
This definition of “the whole of Tibet” is like the claim of Eretz Yisrael: history doesn’t support it. Historically, Tibet was an aggregate of competing slave-holding monasteries and fiefdoms that were part of the Chinese empire. In theory, the Dalai Lama was the head of Tibet, as the title given by his Mongol ruler indicates, but the other sects of Tibetan Buddhism were extremely independent. So it would be quite a coup for the Dalai Lama to be given all this land.
2. The population transfer of Chinese into Tibet… must be stopped.
That demand conflicts with Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
If you don’t see the problem, imagine someone descended from Old Mexico’s governors demanding that the US only allow people of Mexican heritage to live in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
3. Fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms must be respected in Tibet. The Tibetan people must once again be free to develop culturally, intellectually, economically and spiritually and to exercise basic democratic freedoms.
The “once again” is dishonest, since Tibet under the Dalai Lamas was a feudal state. I fully agree with the wish for democratic freedoms, but what he’s proposing isn’t a democracy. It appears to be a constitutional theocracy that’s independent from China in every way but name.
As for the lack of freedoms, by Chinese standards, Tibetans are treated well; see Tibet Today for China’s side of the story.
4. Serious efforts must be made to restore the natural environment in Tibet. Tibet should not be used for the production of nuclear weapons and the dumping of nuclear waste.
China is working to improve its environmental record, and it would be nice if all countries stopped producing nuclear weapons.
5. Negotiations on the future status of Tibet and the relationship between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples should be started in earnest.
This may be an example of the Dalai Lama’s famous sense of humor: if you want earnest negotiations, you need to begin with a viable plan. Instead, he asks for an ethnically-cleansed Tibet consisting of 25% of China’s territory with himself as the constitutional head of church and state. If I was China, I wouldn’t be in a hurry to waste my diplomats’ time.
See also: A Message For Western Leaders
tibetfaq
Dalai Lama’s Five Point Peace Plan is Not Fooling Anyone
An essay by a Tibetan from Eastern Tibet
China’s view of Tibet
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words_dreamcafe
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12:51a |
Personality, Perception, and Political Prognosis http://dreamcafe.com/words/2008/05/09/personality-perception-and-political-prognosis/ I’ve been re-reading Trotsky’s three volume History of the Russian Revolution. In chapter IV and chapter VI he gets into the personality of the Czar and the Czarina in a discussion of how much of the personality of a leader is accidental, and how much is determined by circumstances: in particular, the circumstances of the leader of a class doomed to extinction. In this context, he makes some comparisons of the traits of Czar Nicholas II, Louis XVI, and Charles I, as well as of their respective wives. The similarities are striking.
No doubt, those who consider personality to be supra-historical will conclude that it was exactly these “accidental” characteristics that caused the fall of the monarchy in each case; I’ll leave that for the discussion, or for someone else. What I want to mention are some of the specifics.
In brief: A complete disconnection from their subjects, a general apathy, a tendency to surround themselves by mediocirty combined with a contempt for anyone competent. In all three cases, there are reports of light-mindedness, and indecision; of being easily swayed by those mediocrates (I just made that word up) with whom they associated. “Tranquility and ‘gaiety’ in difficult moments…deprived of imagination and creative force…envious hostility toward everything gifted and significant…lacking firmness of character…a passive, patient, but vindictive treachery…” And in the case of all three wives, an even deeper isolation from the masses, and a love of the trappings of power. “…scorned the people, could not endure the thought of concessions…”
Okay, so, here’s the thing: We aren’t going to know until the exposes begin to appear after his presidency is over, but insofar as we can know, do these things strike anyone as familiar? No, Bush’s wife never said, “Let them eat cake,”* but his mother made an awfully similar sounding comment about the Louisiana refugees in Texas after Katrina. Look at some of the hints of Bush’s personality that leak out occasionally, and tell me if they don’t seem terribly familiar.
*Yes, I know Marie Antoinette never actually said that. The point is, the story spread because in every-one’s perception at the time, saying that was exactly in character for her.
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Personality, Perception, and Political Prognosis
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| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
thnidu
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8:56p |
robotics ( hat-tip to kai)Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008) (3:29)And a response to it: BigDog Beta (early Big Dog quadruped robot testing) (1:45) Current Music: TV |
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endicottstudio
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7:49p |
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words_dreamcafe
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shetterly
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7:13p |
NED, Reporters Without Borders, plus NED’s involvement in Tibet http://shetterly.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/ned-reporters-without-borders-plus-neds-involvement-in-tibet-2/ Thinking about the National Endowment for Duplicity Democracy, I wondered if Ambrose Bierce had a definition for “democracy” in the Devil’s Dictionary. He seems to have missed it. But I think I know the definition in the Hierarchist’s Handbook: Greek, “people rule.” A political system in which the people vote to do what the rich want.
I always thought Reporters Without Borders was a wonderful thing, because, you know, free speech! free press! Alas, now I’ll have to be more critical. From Reporters Without Borders - SourceWatch:
Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF’s budget was primarily provided by “US organizations strictly linked with US foreign policy” (Thibodeau, La Presse).
Regarding NED and Tibet:
NED’s official list: NED Grants Program - China (Tibet)
“Democratic Imperialism”: Tibet, China, and the National Endowment for Democracy
China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp
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papersky
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3:56p |
Words: 1830
Total words: 55997
Files: 3
Tea: Spring tea
Music: There Double Concertos
RSI: feels fine, do exercises!
Reason for stopping: End of bit.
That was a very stressful bit. I'm having a cup of tea to calm down. It's a while since I've written something like that.
There's only one excuse for doing something this peculiar, and that's doing it really well. |
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shetterly
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5:43p |
the Masters of the Lie Award for the last 25 years http://shetterly.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/the-masters-of-the-lie-award-for-the-last-25-years/ Before I began researching Tibet, you could’ve asked me if the CIA worked through a lot of quasi-governmental organizations, and I would’ve nodded. But if you’d offered me a million dollars to name one, I would’ve gone away broke.
Now I have a name.
And, oh, Hillary Clinton was right when she spoke about the vast right-wing conspiracy, but what she left out was that the Clintons have served its agenda well.
Wikipedia is a reasonable place to start: National Endowment for Democracy:
The National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, is a U.S. non-profit organization that was founded in 1983… It has been criticized by both right-wing and left-wing personalities of interferences in foreign regimes, and of being set up to legally continue the CIA’s prohibited activities of support to selected political parties abroad [1]. … “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA“ Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, said during a 1991 interview with the Washington Post [18]
But this is a subject where I’m not interested in objectivity. I want writers who are happy to point out NED’s shortcomings. The US’s ethical right wing hates it. From a 1993 Cato Institute article, Loose Cannon: The National Endowment for Democracy:
The buzzwords of the budget season have been “cut spending first.” We could, perhaps, begin with the National Endowment for Democracy. Its past is rife with scandals, financial and otherwise. It has absolutely no “hometown” constituency; not one member of Congress would face angry voters demanding to know why “their” program had been cut. Very few voters would even have heard of it. Moreover, NED is emblematic of inside-the-beltway political logrolling, the type of enterprise that Washington-weary and government wary voters–including the coveted Perot constituency–would love to see abolished.
See also National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx).
The US’s ethical left wing hates it just as much. From National Endowment for Democracy - SourceWatch
According to the New York Times: “The National Endowment for Democracy is a quasi-governmental foundation created by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to channel millions of Federal dollars into anti-Communist ‘private diplomacy.’” [2] … While NED remains accountable to the U.S. Congress and has to publish its disbursements, this doesn’t apply to the organizations that it in turn finances.
The most damning article that I’ve found is from Right Web | Profile | National Endowment for Democracy, which includes this:
Although the Democracy Program included business and USIA officials, its key movers were neoconservatives: Eugenia Kemble (sister of Penn Kemble), George Weigel (later with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a signatory of PNAC’s founding statement), Raymond Gastil of Freedom House, and Weinstein (member of neocon-led 1970s group the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and later president of the NED-funded Center for Democracy).
Gershman, the founding and current president of NED, was an organizer with the Socialist Party. As a member of a right-wing faction of the party known as Shachtmanites (followers of Trotskyist leader Max Shachtman), Gershman challenged Michael Harrington’s leadership of the Socialist Party in 1972. While Harrington was a vociferous opponent of the Vietnam War, the Shachtmanites supported the war and favored Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat George McGovern in the presidential election campaign that year.
After the Socialist Party split, Gershman—together with Rachelle Horowitz and Tom Kahn (both of whom worked with the CIA-funded International Affairs Department of the AFL-CIO)—founded the Social Democrats/USA (SD/USA). For many neoconservatives with Trotskyist backgrounds, SD/USA became their main point of entry into the struggles to break the control of the progressive “New Politics” faction of the Democratic Party. Although it had only a few dozen members and associates, SD/USA exercised major influence in the AFL-CIO and in shaping foreign policy objectives in the Reagan administration.
In the late 1970s a bipartisan group of foreign policy hawks concluded that a new system was needed to channel “political aid” to an international network of “free” trade unions, anti-leftist political parties, publishing houses, and civic groups that would promote U.S. foreign and military policies. A faction of neoconservatives associated with SD/USA and the AFL-CIO’s International Affairs took the lead in working with right-wing corporations and the U.S. government to address this need through the American Political Foundation, which received State Department funding to explore new avenues to offer U.S. government support for “domestic pluralistic forces in totalitarian countries” (Tom Barry and Deb Preusch, The Soft War: The Uses and Abuses of U.S. Economic Aid in Central America, p. 247).
To substitute for secret CIA financing of political and cultural organizations (which had been prohibited by Congress after revelations that the CIA was funding domestic academic and cultural organizations), neoconservatives and their labor partners advocated that Reagan establish a quasi-governmental organization to redirect USIA and USAID funds.
A good list of articles about NED: Exposing the National Endowment for Democracy ::: Articles by the International Endowment for Democracy:
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thnidu
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2:23p |
at home Today again I am at home. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dunkelpig's medical problem (previous f-locked posts) is still not resolved, and last evening she was in quite considerable pain. So this morning I and my Chinese sister, who is still visiting, took her to the ER again. D. looked closely at the Rx medication she was given last time, which made her sick, and discovered that while the CVS-printed label says "a capful", the manufacturer's instructions (partly pasted down under the CVS label) say to fill the cap up to the marked line, which is about 1/3 or 2/5 of the way up. In an hour or so, when I go down to CVS to pick up the colonoscopy-prep prescription, I will also take the bottle and some polite but pointed questions. Chinese sister is watching Jerry Springer. She enjoys that and many other TV shows, turned up fairly loud, which would make it completely impossible for me to do anything here downstairs at my desk and computer if it weren't for my earbuds. I am currently listening to Best of the Bothy Band, turned up pretty high, which almost drowns out the shouting. Current Music: Best of the Bothy Band |
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1:11p |
2008: First Hummingbird
Earlier this week, I hung the hummingbird feeder in its usual spot directly outside my office window. It's about two arm lengths from where I sit. A few seconds before I started this post, I heard and saw the first hummingbird of the season.
Hey, at least I was ahead of the hummers this year. Some years, I only do it after I hear them buzzing around, looking, looking.
In other signs of spring, the first dandelion poked its head up through the concrete just outside my door. That was a couple of weeks ago, actually. A day later, I counted 52 dandelions on the hillside. Then there were hundreds and more. This week, they were joined and outnumbered by the violets. So pretty. It's a shame it's time to mow. I know from past experience that the job only gets harder. Not physically harder, well, okay, a bit. Mostly it's harder because the hillside quickly reverts to meadow and that's just too pretty to mow. I don't know exactly why I still do. Appearances and perceived resale value...and the sense that if I let it go that I'll eventually have to pay someone to reclaim the lawn since the job will quickly grow beyond me.
I've been utterly hammered with design and related projects this week. Overall, that's good, much though I would like a bit more flexibility it my schedule to get other things done, too. Or even to get all of the projects themselves done.
In five more days, I'll celebrate my 4th anniversary here. Time's passing quickly -- it seems more like two years than four. |
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shetterly
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joel_rosenberg
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8:24a |
The stopped clock is right, again. Does happen twice a day, after all. This time it's Larry Johnson: Hillary's only hope is that the super delegates will come to their senses and realize that Barack Obama's relationships with the corrupt Tony Rezko, the racist-wife stealing Jeremiah Wright, and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers will provide the Republicans with ammunition they have never had at hand to use against the Democrats' candidate. This is particularly true of that flag stomper, Bill Ayers....
Yup. But it's not just Hillary's only hope; the Democrats' only hope, this fall, is that enough Obama delegates -- whatever combination of pledge and super -- come to their senses. Before (or, at least, at) Denver.  We may now understand why Barack does not wear a flag lapel pin. He's afraid that Bill Ayers will stomp on him. In reality, it will be the relationship with Bill Ayers that will empower the Republicans to destroy the candidacy of Barack Obama.
This is not a question of whether or not the Republicans will use this material. They will. So what is there to find? That is the area of greatest danger for the Democrats. Obama has lied about his longstanding relationship with Bill Ayers. Why? What is he hiding?
That should, of course, have been "what else is he hiding?" But far be it for me to quibble. As I have pointed out before, 1995 was a critical year in the Obama/Ayers relationship. It was in 1995 that Barack was tabbed by Ayers to be the Chairman of the Annenberg Challenge (a failed $50 million project). That same year, Barack sat at a kitchen table with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Bill's wife, a plotted the ouster of Alice Palmer, who Obama took down in order to secure his place in the Illinois state senate. If the Super Delegates do not insist on a full and complete disclosure from Barack Obama about his ties to Bill Ayers, the Republicans will force the issue in the fall. It is one thing to have a name that sounds like the terrorist who attacked us on 9-11. But it is an entirely different matter to be close friends with an unrepentant terrorist who bombed U.S. Government buildings. There is no where to run. The relationship is genuine. This is a stonewall that will not stand.
Nor, for that matter, should it.
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9:16a |
Thud: ILE
Words: 1718
Total words: 54157
Files: 3
Tea: Jasmine
Music: NMPA
RSI: feels fine. But do exercises!
Reason for stopping: next bit is a long bit, better to have a break and get to it later.
You know how some people say The Lathe of Heaven is like Philip Dick? Which Dick in particular would you compare it to? |
mrissa
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6:55a |
Stuff. This week I have friends in from out of the country, and I have my grands and my Onie in from out of town, and it's my brother's birthday, my godson's birthday, and Mother's Day. Also I am doing PT three times a day, and you all know by now how that feels under this circumstance, and I'm trying to get some writing done and keep the house from completely falling apart. Also I have two medical appointments coming up (one PT, one totally routine allergist visit). Also markgritter has two conference-dealies to attend. And then we're going to California. So what I'm saying here is, if you don't hear from me when you expect you otherwise might, don't panic. It's just sort of being like that for awhile. |
thewordnerd
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6:34a |
Oh look, Nolan's pissed off about CAPTCHAs again... I wish I could get unpissed off about this, for lack of a better phrase, but it just never gets old with me. This morning I went to join del.icio.us. Hit a CAPTCHA, can't join. Several days ago I wanted to sign up with the Free Sound Project (I'm not doing them the courtesy of linking) so I could download sounds--why I need to join to download is beyond me. Couldn't, hit a CAPTCHA, sent their development team an email. No anti-CAPTCHA rhetoric, I've given up on trying to advocate non-discrimination on the web, just a two sentence message along the lines of "I'm blind and can't join your site. What is my next step to sign up if I can't use your form?" No response, days later. And if they respond in a few days apologizing for the delay and remarking how busy they were, well, all the more reason that CAPTCHAs can go suck it. IIRC their website even states something like "If you're visually impaired and can't complete this step, please contact us," and still I get fuck all in response. We're in theory not living in the dark ages. I should be able to join a website without a days-long delay or without your permission/help, and that I can't because of something as trivial as not being able to see makes me want to go on the warpath. Here's what really chafes when I think about CAPTCHAs. About a month ago, I totally replaced my automated spam-scanning solution with TMDA. Now, when you send me an email, you receive a politely-written automated message from me apologizing for the inconvenience, but asking you to simply hit your reply button, leave the subject line intact and send the message. Before your message is released to me, it's held in quarantine until you verify that you're a human being, and my definition of "human" has nothing to do with whether or not you can see or hear and everything to do with whether or not you can operate an email client and follow directions (I realize there are humans incapable of the former, but I probably want nothing to do with any incapable of the latter.) Interestingly enough, I've gotten no spam with this solution in place. That's right, if a spammer is really dead set on offering me penis/breast enlargement or several hundred page views per second, all they have to do is reply...and none do, because if they're having to reply to even a handful of emails, their economy of scale goes right out the window. Yet people who communicate with me seem to have no problem taking the 15 extra seconds to reply once, at which time their address is permanently whitelisted and they're never stuck replying again. See, the deal is even better, spammers need only reply once and they can continue using their address to spam me again and again. Yet I've not gotten a single spam[1] and no non-automated message from friends/family has ever been quarantined. So, here's my question. Why are we continuing to use this discriminatory "type the letters in this image or soundclip" crap on the web and justifying it by making it a necessary evil in the war against spam? Newsflash: blind and deaf people hate spam too. When I ask why we're not just using email addresses to verify humanity, I invariably get some line about "that doesn't prevent spammers from creating accounts in the database." I have some code I've written that as I write this journal entry is inserting a metric buttload of geographic data into a postgres database running on my cheap 1.5 GHz cellery processor. It's inserting thousands, possibly millions of records, and doing quite a bit of querying to ensure that it isn't inserting duplicates. My box isn't breaking a sweat, and neither will your web service even if a few thousand spammers create useless accounts which you can then go and delete anyway if they don't verify after seven days or so. It's absolutely ridiculous, and this happens to be a shitty week for it, since I've now been denied access to two different services, and it doesn't appear that the support staff for one cares enough to respond to a polite two-sentence email. They probably expect me to just ask my caregiver or some bullshit like that. 1. OK, one or two spams did get through, but that was my fault. I ran an automated script that whitelisted a bunch of addresses in my inbox such that anyone who contacted me recently didn't have to verify. It recursed into my junk folder and added all of those addresses as well. Once I caught that goof and removed all the spammers' addresses, I've gotten a total of zero(0) spams and have turned off spamassassin. Yes, I've repeated that point several times because it's worth repeating. No one is going to automate responses to your human verification emails unless you're a service on the order of Google, and even so, my google groups are pretty spam-free. And, look, this footnote has just continued the rant even further, this is how irate I am right now. |
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6:15a |
Prejudice, thy name is Steve http://dreamcafe.com/words/2008/05/09/prejudice-thy-name-is-steve/ He was big, looked to be between 45-50, had a typical Texas drawl and a rodeo belt buckle. He was in Reesa’s store buying a tatoo for his wife, and I was hanging around and keeping Reesa company. He looked at me as I walked in and said, “Do I know you from somewhere?” “Can’t think where,” I said. “You look familiar. Are you an actor?” “No, but I’m told I look a bit like Alan Rickman.” “Maybe that’s it.” He didn’t seem convinced.
I didn’t ask if he read sf, or read at all. He just wasn’t the type.
After about half an hour, I got really disgusted with myself for believing there was a “type” who read, and thinking that a Texas drawl and a rodeo belt buckle meant he didn’t read. I went back out. “Uh, do you read?” “All the time.” “Science fiction and fantasy?” “Mostly science fiction. I thrive on it.” “Oh. Uh, I’m sorry. You may have been me on the back cover a book.” “Oh yeah? What have you written.” “Jhereg?” “No.” “To Reign in Hell?” “No.” “Dzur?” “Damn! You wrote Dzur? I’ve got that! It’s on my stack…”
So, yeah, anyway, I apologized for prejudging him, and he was very gracious about it, and we talked about favorite writers for a while. Cool guy, Texas drawl and rodeo belt buckle and all.
Let this be a lesson to me.
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Copyright © 2008 the Dream Cafe. All rights reserved.
Prejudice, thy name is Steve
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| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 |
kit_kindred
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11:13p |
Grinch Night After Action Report
We survived opening night
Went well enough
I got put into my costume and makeup about 3:30
Once I'm in, I'm in. No getting out. No eating. No drinking. No anything.
Suit and make up and hair painting all very very hot and headache inducing
Had some pictures taken-if they come out, they'll be posted.
Play ended about 8:30-9 PM
Its 11 PM
Just now finally degreened
Blech
Back at school at 6 AM. Then Play again.
As I sang on stage before the play today, "Its Not Easy Being Green" |
todfox
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11:31p |
an addenum
we just said this here...
"After all, a man with a shaven head looks like a baby, so anyone who likes them must be a pedophile." |
todfox
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10:22p |
What the fuck? (pubic shaving)
I am so tired of this lie -- that a woman's shaven vulva looks like a child's.
Time and time again you hear this from people who don't like to shave -- that the modern craze for pubic grooming is some deep-seated, pedophilic lust for children because it makes the area look identical to a child's.
This is just plain wrong.
Now I don't think anyone should feel forced to shave -- my own pubic region stays unshaven and usually, at least, untrimmed, which is also becoming rarer in men as it is in women. I have yet to hear complaints from a partner. I might consider it if I did. I think everyone should make this choice for themselves, based on -- polite! -- input from their lovers. I have been with women who shaved, as well as women who were hairy, just as I have been with women who did or did not shave other parts of their bodies such as their legs and armpits. None of the options are disgusting, all are erotic in their own way. A shaven cunt is pleasurable, just as is an unshaven one, even if the sensations are a little different.
But anyone who says a grown woman's balded private parts look like a kids has not been around children, nor actually studied an adult woman's body. The region changes during puberty in ways additional to the growth of hair, ways which are visible to those who care.
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thnidu
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10:35p |
Improvements Ista the house cat writes: The Woman is learning her place in this house.
I wanted to nap on her bed. It was, of course, the best place to nap at the time. Soft, warm, and with company: she was napping there already. So I curled up next to her.
Then I straightened myself out and stretched. Well, I needed more room there. She woke up.
She got up and left the bed to me. That is proper.
Current Mood:  sleepyCurrent Music: Chinese sister watching a hospital drama |
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7:24p |
Seekers seek Truth on a path of truths http://shetterly.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/seekers-walk-toward-truth-on-a-path-of-truths/ Sometimes I think the only religions you should heed are the ones that admit they’re jokes. I don’t know if Chris at Homo Sum had read my comments yesterday about being obsessed with truth when he quoted this:
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.
Fnord.
At the risk of taking a joke too seriously (which may be the mistake of all religions):
Maybe the Discordians have found a way to leave the grids. That’s the way of the holy fool. There’s more Truth in a Nasreddin tale than in most holy books.
But for those of us who are reality-based, here’s a truth: We may not need little-t truths to find the big-T truth, but lies about little-t truths keep many of us from the big-T truth. Seekers seek Truth on a path of truths.
Here’s another truth: If your spiritual leader lies, that leader has a truth for you: find another way.
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