Translucent

Translucent: allowing light to pass through but scattering it as it does, to give diffuse images My ‘dar is useless here. It’s always attached to whatever culture you’re operating in, and this one is much harder to re-calibrate for. FOD¹s are as obscured as looking through a 100 year old window, where the glass has [...]

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A call to reason, through a different prism

One of my greatest frustrations with supposedly intelligent/educated/thoughtful people in America is that they usually lack the knowledge beyond their own subjective experience or desire to understand. History is a lost concept to so many, which gives rise to impatience and a failure to appreciate that time is a variable they actually do need to [...]

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Thoughts on fully expected Prop 8 ruling

How can they rule that way? It’s a very narrow ruling on the proposition’s legality, rather than on the Equal Protection clause. They also are not ruling on an amendment to the US constitution, only to the CA one. Since constitutions are living documents and can be changed by the electorate (in CA they don’t [...]

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Checkbook marchers

If anything good could come out of Prop 8′s passing, it would be the death of the moneyed “there in spirit” marchers, or more specifically their ethos. It is the coward’s way out to send off a check and go back to your dinner parties, glossing over that part of yourself that deserves equality, but [...]

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Where’s my outrage?

I never had any pretensions regarding marriage. I long ago decided it wasn’t for me, and  long have I been reconciled with it. So I don’t suffer the righteous indignation sweeping the nation, or at least my blood pressure does not rise, I did not quail in anger as results came in on November 4th, [...]

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No change…

Read to the bottom of the post. Thing is guys like me, and women and women who are lesbians, all of us have probably all felt like ground zero for these attacks for so long we probably brush it off. Or push it down into a corner where we can control the fear. You learn [...]

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