Category Archives: politics

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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Things I discovered in 2008

By spider | Published: January 18, 2009

Even though life doesn’t exactly adhere to the calendar,  I can honestly say that 2008 did have a unique personality, different than any year I’ve experienced before. Here’s a look back at some of the new discoveries in my life that made a positive difference.

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Crowds of People Asking

By xtina | Published: December 10, 2008

Sometimes I think it is a curse to be aware. Consciousness can be a burden. If I were less aware then I think I might cringe less than I do. My life has been full of cringe lately. I know that being different from your average Joe is full of gopher holes and such, but [...]

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allegro maestoso

By xtina | Published: November 7, 2008

Each of my grandmothers endured many hardships that I will never have to face. One of these challenges is the burden of compulsory pregnancy. My grandmothers each had 7+ pregnancies resulting in 17 births. In most cases, the amount of time between births was less than 15 months, in some cases it was less than [...]

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The Ritual of Voting

By spider | Published: November 4, 2008

As I stood in the voting booth shortly before 8:00 this glorious November morning, between marking my ballot YEA or NAY to two of nearly 50 state and city referendums, I realized what a meaningful part of my life this periodic ritual of voting is to me. Every Vote Counts, or so we are reminded [...]

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The first thing that I’ll do

By xtina | Published: November 3, 2008

Children learn from watching their adults. They are watching and listening and creating a detailed profile of all the behaviors you exhibit, even the ones you may not be aware of. Many times Lucas has astounded me by asking “Mommy, why are you [doing this action] differently?” and I pause to consider my behavior and [...]

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I’ll be good tomorrow

By xtina | Published: November 2, 2008

One of the things that we are trying to teach the kidlet is the value of delayed gratification. The idea being that by learning this valuable lesson at a young age, he might be able to avoid some of the pitfalls that have tripped up Mom and Dad (fortunately not too bad – just some [...]

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Politico

By spider | Published: July 19, 2008

What have I been up to til now? Heretofore, my political activism has been sporadic. In college, I didn’t do much, if anything. I attended rallies (we were faced with a bunch of anti-immigrant state initiatives back then), and probably signed a few petitions. In 2000, I campaigned for Al Gore in the last month [...]

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Convening in Austin

By spider | Published: July 18, 2008

The Preamble For the 1.7 regular readers of this periodically forsaken blog, you may still have a vague recollection of an earlier era (may even have been when we still went by The Duologue!) when a significant portion of my blog entries (there were more then) mentioned national political issues. Lots of stuff about little [...]

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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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Popozao – I voted for Britney Spears

By xtina | Published: November 7, 2006

Another voting day has come and gone — the polls closed at 8. I am too uninterested to see what’s winning since I have little faith in my fellow Californians (no, not you!). So much stuff on this ballot was utter crap. The ballot here was heavy with a long list of judges for whom [...]

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