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| 11:04pm 15/07/2009 |
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If you havent seen this movie, you so need to rent it.
If you have seen it, isn't this one of the most amazing movies you have ever seen in your life? |
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| daily gratitudes |
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| 10:22pm 15/07/2009 |
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- real red bean ice cream: good vanilla ice cream with red bean paste on top
- a partner who knows i need to process things by talking them through, and lets me, even though its not how she processes
- being able to stand up and say what i believe in, even if it means confronting someone
- recognizing that i'm in the throes of growing pains associated with my new position
- my crazy former feral rescue cat head butting me while i'm writing this because SHE WANTS LOVE .... NOW!!!!
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| 08:29pm 15/07/2009 |
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mood:  tired
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We dropped ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) explodingcat off at the South Bend South Shore Line station around noon today. He called when he got to Chicago and he's probably getting to UIUC right around now. I know he has to check in, walk to a grocery store, and get settled, but I imagine I'll hear from him sooner or later.
Ronan took a late nap and is now rather crabby. *sigh* And I wonder what he'll do when Daddy isn't in bed tonight or tomorrow morning.
I didn't buy a bedrail. We don't use them for naps or when Ronan's in bed with just one of us, so I hope it's not an issue. The bed here is a queen, just like home, so I might not pick one up.
Whiskey occasionally walks through the house, looking for Tom. |
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| Student Academy Award GOLD winner: Best Documentary |
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| 06:11pm 15/07/2009 |
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The powerful documentary film "As We Forgive" (winner of the "student" filmmaker Oscar) airs on PBS starting today. It poses the question: Could you forgive a person who murdered your family?
Two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. Can true forgiveness be possible? Can survivors forgive the killers who destroyed their families and embrace them as friends and neighbors? Can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today?
In As We Forgive, narrator Mia Farrow explore these topics through the lives of four neighbors, once caught in opposite tides of a genocidal bloodbath, and their extraordinary journey from death to life through the process of forgiveness.
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| New at Reason: Michael Young on Liberalism in the Middle East |
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| 04:30pm 15/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/4LDsXKgf70I/134813.html  In his review of Joshua Muravchik's new book The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, Contributing Editor Michael Young notes that unlike President Barack Obama, Muravchik has no qualms about presuming that liberalism and democracy are best for everyone. The Next Founders offers admiring profiles of seven individuals who have thought and behaved as liberals in Middle Eastern societies where that kind of thing can be dangerous. The result, Young writes, is an engaging work of group portraiture that is especially welcome at a time when there is otherwise so little interest in making democracy an American priority overseas.
Read all about it here.
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| Meghan McCain: I Heart teh Gay, and "Joe the Plumber...is a dumbass" |
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| 04:21pm 15/07/2009 |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/R9H4iq9xBSc/134826.html Funny little Out.com profile of the former would-be first daughter and current Tweet-monster. Excerpt:
 Being free of a presidential campaign's constraints has liberated McCain to speak her mind, but the true impetus for her current gay rights activism was the passage of Proposition 8 in California. On election night last November, McCain was understandably consumed with the results of the presidential race and, like many, "assumed that Prop 8 wouldn't pass." The next morning, however, she woke up in an already sour mood made worse by her BGF (best gay friend) Josh "telling me that on top of everything else, Prop 8 passed." Like many others, McCain was swept up in a collective sense of grievance, quickly concluding that making the GOP more gay-friendly would be foremost among her priorities. (For the record, Meghan isn't the only member of the McCain clan to support gay marriage. "My mom was always for gay marriage, but I think me being so vocal about it has made her want to be more vocal about it," she says. "She texted me: 'Gay marriage passed in Maine!!'") [...]
 Shortly before McCain sat for this interview, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he complained about "queers" and declared, "I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children." Unprompted, McCain rails against the man her father's presidential campaign touted as an American everyman and made a showpiece in the weeks before the election. "Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing." [...]
"Homophobia is the last socially accepted prejudice," McCain says, repeating it for emphasis.
Whole thing here.
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