Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

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especially this one (so far). I read Andrew Sullivan from time to time - he occasionally posts interesting things and I like the views from the windows. But not once – ever - do I forget that he thinks that whether I and those of my skin tone are a fully developed human beings, with fully developed brains and cognitive abilities is [...]

M. Lambrechts took this picture at a gay pride parade in Brussels 2009. This was a little kid of a gay couple coming to check those curious pins on his jacket. He pulled the punks jacket and the punk went sitting on his knees, when the 2 men called their kid back the punk got [...]

And does it brilliantly, I will add. I am still absorbing everything she said (I read it first on my phone), but she extends this story: A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew. Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months [...]

I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]

Booman put together this list and since I’m on a half-way political kick this week I thought a little good political news would be in order. This should have been a good “news” week for President Obama and the Democratic congress - and would have been (to the extent that anyone pays attention to legislation and stuff) if [...]

Yesterday I speculated that Shirley Sherrod, far from being just a random attempted “gotcha!”, was specifically targeted by the right wing for who she is. Married to Charles Sherrod, one of the SNCC organizers of the Albany Project, a Civil Rights activist herself, and both of them party to the recently settled – but not funded – Pigford case, a long-running court [...]

About every other month an older Mexican lady wanders door to door in my neighborhood selling whatever she has on hand – fresh picked fruit, tamales,  whatever. As far as I can tell she doesn’t speak a word of English, though she understands some, and her Spanish is way too fast for me to follow, [...]

I can’t view the video well, plus it’s easy for words to get lost, so here is a full transcript of what she said. I have removed the blockquotes because they make it more difficult for me, at least, to read and have instead cased Ms. Sherrod’s remarks in asterisks. It is obvious that someone [...]

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