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Who’s Your Scapegoat?
For those who don’t know, there will be national and international protests of Proposition 8 tomorrow at 12:30pm Central. Visit Join the Impact for more information. North Texas events are taking place...
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Why Protest?
I know a lot of people who attended Proposition 8 protests last weekend. Time will tell how effective they were, but I think it would be helpful to remember what could or could not be accomplished by...
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How Do We Clean Up Political Discourse?
Well, we start by whittling down the pundits. OK, so it’s going to take more of a sea change than one radio program ending, but you have to admit that whatever “truth” lies in pundits’ claims that they...
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Who’s Not Getting It?
The parents at Rowlett High School who got Rent cancelled, that’s who. I mean, I don’t know whether the “it” is the importance of learning other perspectives (even if you disagree with them), the...
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Who Else Is Blogging?
I don’t have a lot of blogs linked to the side there, but I have a long list of political blogs to check out… you know, when I have time. But blogging is an artform of outliers. There are very few...
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Creating Change Tangent 1: Microcosms
[This is actually my third entry on Creating Change, but the second entry was far more personal than political and I did not share it as widely.] Are our desires microcosms for the politics, or are...
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Obama, DADT, and Lobbying the Radical Moderate
Point of clarification: it’s all a Democrat’s fault. Bill Clinton himself has admitted that his naive rush to “allow” gays in the military by instituting Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was a bad decision,...
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Ranty McRantenstein
[Contributor Post by johncleonard] Politics has been particularly upsetting lately. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t really want to write about it. Well, nothing particularly useful, anyway. So,...
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Best of 2013
I am by no means an exhaustive consumer of media, but this year had some gems that I feel compelled share. Simply put, this list comprises things I experienced that helped me grow & love better in...
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After the Victory Lap, Take a Moment for Hindsight
Please, please, please celebrate all weekend. Then next week, or the week after, or say the end of summer at the latest, come back and contemplate this: One of the secondary victories of today is that...
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Snapshot: Gender and Attraction
I was asked by a male-identified person about the lack of Y-chromosomes in my current polycule. What follows is the bulk of my response, posted here for posterity or whatever: My gender identity is...
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