…did you think that if you had been in her situation there would have been hell to pay? It seems like a sympathetic enough reaction, does it not, to think that you are so enraged by what happened to her that you would, if you could, search heaven, hell and earth for these hospital personnel and teach them a thing or three?
Given that this is a queer blog, or that is it is a queer blog to the extent that the writer considers himself quite rather queer, it might seem odd that I have not said a whole lot about Proposition 8. Given also especially that I live in California and donated a little money to the No on 8 campaign and voted against it myself and did other assorted things to work against its passage, one might think I would have more to say.
Here are some reasons why I am not saying much.
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Posted in activism, politics, queer, transgender
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Also tagged Duanna Johnson, marriage rights, politics, proposition 8, queer, transgender, Transgender Day of Remembrance, violence
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So. Yeah. I am still stunned at how quickly the election seemed to be over last night, how soon McCain conceded–8:45pm Pacific Time–and I am still mightily relieved that the Republican/NeoCon/Religious Right has lost its stranglehold on the federal government. Perhaps now we can, as a nation, make our way towards being seen as rational, [...]
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Posted in activism, domestic policy, ethics, politics, queer
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Also tagged california, christianity, colonialism, homophobia, politics, queer rights, racism
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This post is a little late, but as I may or may not have made clear the other night, my administrative day runs from about 8pm till sometime after sunrise, so to me it is still the third, and this post still counts. To demonstrate, I will most likely post my fourth post later on [...]
ahhh. whatever other life forms there may be in this universe or in other universes, I hope they are able to experience something as unambiguously and uncomplicatedly Good as cool sparkling water. someone somewhere probably thinks the same thing about boiling ammonia. Because this is another post on the same topic but I want to [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged books, buddhism, culture, direct action, eternal return, ethics, exposure, four thoughts, irreparability, karma, nothing, philosophy, responsibility, spirituality
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I had meant to come back and finish the fourth thought last night but I ended up doing something else. what was it? oh. I shaved and showered. wo0t! I need to finish The Buddha at War because I think it might have some more interesting things to tell me. I just looked at the [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged books, buddhism, culture, direct action, eternal return, ethics, four thoughts, karma, nothing, philosophy, responsibility, spirituality
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So I got some sleep and some coffee and reread the third chapter of Sachs’ The Buddha at War (and that apostrophe at the end of Sachs indicating possession? that used to be grammatical. I was taught that with names ending in “s,” one could either add an apostrophe-s for possession or just the apostrophe. [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged books, buddhism, culture, direct action, eternal return, ethics, four thoughts, karma, nothing, philosophy, responsibility, spirituality
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I’m just going to spill out some percolating thoughts here in what might also turn out to be a blog post which might itself–the blog that is–turn out to be migrated to wordpress soon because I got robotospammed and had to turn off comments and that’s no way to run a blog but it has [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged buddhism, eternal return, ethics, four thoughts, karma, philosophy
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I was going to re-open my blog with some sort of heralding post that announced the re-opening of my blog etc and how I had no idea what I was going to make it “about” so I’ve decided not to make it about anything in particular but to be perhaps more rantish or more linear [...]
