June 2008
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Links for June 19th
David Michael Bruno: 100 Thing Challenge - Wow is this attractive as I prepare to move my life over a great distance for the fourth time in as many years. There's a Christian angle to it, too. I could do this.
BBC: The_Death_Of_Yugoslavia_(1of6)_Enter_Nationalism.avi - Bookmarking for myself, as I watch these 6 parts from the BBC [...] -
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This is What Pride Means
This clip show of a day of same-sex weddings in West Hollywood made me cry. I am so, so, so, SO proud of my home state. I can’t contain it. I will do anything do defeat that ballot measure this fall. God, justice, equality, equal access, and love conquer all! (from Slate V)
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Music, Video
A Boy Named Sue
Such respect for this Shel Silverstein-penned song and particularly this 1969 recording, but funny that my mind’s eye forgot that all the prisoners at San Quentin would be white. “A Boy Named Sue”
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Commentary, Link
Of Glass Ceilings: Primary ‘08 in hindsight
“Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one; but it does not belittle the oppressions of gender to suggest that in America the oppressions of race have cut deeper. Clinton’s supporters would sometimes note that the Constitution did not extend the vote to women until a half century [...]
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Music, Video
In search of Summer Jams
Joy Division, not everyone’s go-to choice for sunshine, but we all need a moody dance number now and then.
