June 2011
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May 2011
Memorial Day: How America Screws Its Soldiers -... →
If you care about our men and women in uniform- really care about them, then you should want to end our ongoing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as soon as possible. We need to stop being okay with war and bring our brave men and women home where they belong.
They’e fought and suffered and died without a concrete goal for long enough. All the while, the rest of us have been going to the...
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A May Update
I should really take the time to write more. I enjoy it, I think I’m relatively good at it and often comes so easily as to be almost unfair.
Except when it doesn’t.
I’ve been busy over the past few weeks, both with work and with my podcast project, Past Forward. It’s been hard to sit down at a computer and type out anything. It’s baffling, because I spend a good...
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Bring Joel Home: Dogs Do Deserve Better →
This was written by a friend of mine who I’ve known since…gosh, since the third grade. Please give it a read and some of your time.
bringjoelhome:
I just spent 3 hours with Dr. Suzanne Fiala in her cozy office in West Seattle looking at pictures, reading documents, and talking about her very unfortunate situation. To be honest I had never met Suzanne in person until tonight. A...
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ThinkProgress » Cantor Says Congress Won’t Pay For... →
Wow, Eric Cantor is a universe-class douchebag.
BBC News - Rapture: Harold Camping issues new... →
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just shut up and go away.
Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being impregnated during... →
What the fuck, dude?
When are we going to start ostracizing people like this, who espouse views that any rational person would find disgusting and misguided?
If I compared rape to getting a flat tire in front of my friends or my family, I would hope that they would either set me straight or stop associating with me. Yet, this guy got elected to the state legislature. Go fucking figure.
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Our Concert Could Be Your Life : NPR →
Calling this “neat” would be a severe understatement.
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For the second episode of Past Forward, I sat down...
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The Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better... →
I wholeheartedly agree with this. In fact, even if I didn’t ride my bike as a commuter, I would agree with this.
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Macho Man vs. The Rapture
Most of you know by now that Macho Man Randy Savage died yesterday in a car crash in Florida. At first, I was sad. A giant figure from my childhood was gone.
Then I thought about his death in conjunction with the “Rapture” that is supposed to be happening across the world today. Early reports are that everything is sunshine and strawberries in the first parts of the world to...
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GOP invites preacher who advocates jailing gays to... →
Bradlee Dean - yet another person to add to my list of “People I Would Punch in the Face Without Hesitation if I Saw Them on the Street.” It’s getting to be a cumbersome list.
Fuck everything about this guy. To my Minnesota friends, feel free to invite him to shut the fuck up at any point and time.
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Nine Years
Sara and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary last week with a little weekend trip to a small island in the San Juans, north of Seattle. Despite the cloudy, cool, rainy weather, it was a nice getaway at a place that we have both come to love.
Nine years, man. Nine years…
And yet, it doesn’t feel like a weighty nine years. Marriage isn’t something that weighs on us like a...
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New invention turns building rooftops into wind... →
Very cool.
WTF: The Public Radio Show! | Maximum Fun →
As someone who loves both public radio and WTF, this is awesome!
Santorum: What does McCain know about torture? -... →
This man really does live up to the name “Santorum” as defined by Dan Savage. Go ahead, look it up after reading this, I think you’ll agree. (don’t look it up if you’re at work)
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That's So Hagen →
So, my good friend (and talented writer) Kelly Hagen has started up his own blog. It’s not as chock full of random video, images and goofy internet shit as mine is, but it does have some fine writin’ on it.
You should really jump on his bandwagon before there aren’t any seats left.
Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The... →
It’s a long read and it’s most certainly not uplifting in any way, but you should read this.
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For Profit Schooling
It’s a dangerous crossroads for our education system here in America. Many cities and communities across the nation are looking toward private companies running charter schools to take over the public education system that they have in place. Regardless of whether you think our public schools are broken or just need a fixing up, killing them off entirely is not the answer.
The very idea...
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