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 on Milosevic’s reign over Yugoslavia. via…...
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)
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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“Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg nails some elements of this gender/race oppression one- upsmanship dialogue which, if it was avoided by the candidates themselves, was seized upon with gusto (to much gnashing of teeth from your author), by partisan camps on many sides. From the New Yorker’s Talk of the...
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.