Category Archives: peace

Proud to be a Mutant

By spider | Published: January 20, 2009

Well here it is, after all this time. A great promise will be fulfilled today when Barack Obama takes the oath of office and is sworn in a as the President of the great nation. And the country is abuzz with the energy of change. Today, we are filled with hope, excitement, anticipation, and gratitude. [...]

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That about does it.

By spider | Published: December 30, 2008

One more year in the history books and what have I got to show for it? A few more wrinkles, a few *less* pounds (!!) and some wonderful memories. 2008  was a very quiet year for me. Very little in the way of dramatic developments or epic experiences. Lots of quiet nights and weekends. Lots [...]

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Into a world of dreams and nightmares

By xtina | Published: August 7, 2007

About 4 weeks ago, a writer named Theresa Duncan reportedly killed herself in New York. She had a blog of some acclaim that until her death she updated daily. Her death was not widely reported even by by NY and LA papers and blogs — she’d recently moved from Venice Beach to the East Village [...]

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By xtina | Published: May 4, 2007

Think you are free? Think again.

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Self Censorship in Modern Merka

By spider | Published: April 24, 2007

I was reading a (quite humorous) email from my uncle that went something like this: Whatever you two are smoking, please send me two tons as a sales starter package. I think that there is a lot more profit potential in whatever you are smoking than in converting ’58 Chevies into tri5s. I think that [...]

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Heartbreaking

By spider | Published: August 8, 2006

From a blogger living in Beirut, the sad tale of daily life in a land under attack from a foreign military. Neither political nor overly dramatic, it is, in the end, a heartbreaking story.

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By xtina | Published: July 31, 2006

“A border is an invitation to Cross.” -Guillermo Gomez Peña

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Fun with Infographics!

By spider | Published: July 21, 2006

From The Independent [via kottke], the answer to the question “Which countries support the immediate ceasefire in the Middle East demanded by the UN and which do not?

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The March of Freedom

By spider | Published: July 17, 2006

So we turned a corner, we were told, when Al-Qaida’s #1 man in Iraq was capture. And we turned a corner when the ‘unity’ government was installed. Bush’s recent ‘visit’ to Iraq was proof. Hmmm. Looks like maybe we turned a corner into the wrong neighboorhood. We have trained and equipped a largely Shiite internal [...]

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Do your part

By spider | Published: July 14, 2006
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advice for new mamas & papas

By xtina | Published: June 26, 2006

we’ll soon be celebrating the little one’s 21st month. overall things have gone swimmingly as each day he grows into a determined, independant individual. i feel pretty passionate about him in a way that grows with each new development. his whims are my entertainment and i feel so lucky that i love shopping for toys, [...]

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from the Dept. of Pre-Crime

By spider | Published: June 20, 2006

Is anyone surprised that our police state has a new, lower standard for taking military (or, you have to assume police) action? Here it is from the Dick‘s lips: “‘Suspicion, not evidence, [is] the new threshold for action.” Gee I fee safer already. Now this is reality – not science fiction, but nonetheless it really [...]

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