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From Dr. King’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964:
I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
I refuse to accept the idea that the “is-ness” of man’s present [...]
Tillie Olsen documentary screens tonight in Oakland
2 Comments Published January 14th, 2008 in Go hetero ally go!, Miscellaney. San Francisco Chronicle photo of filmmaker Ann Hershey by Liz Hafalia
Documentary filmmaker Annie Hershey’s long-awaited film about the life and work of writer-activist Tillie Olsen will be making its Bay Area debut tonight, on what would have been Olsen’s ninety-sixth birhtday. She died on New Year’s Day a year ago.
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[Happy first night of Hanukka, people!]
Okay, maybe Ebeneezer Scrooge was a bit cranky. And of course I don’t condone his (pre-conversion) obsession with commerce over compassion. But the Grinch, Scrooge’s Seussian counterpart, had a point. Sure, he took it all a bit too far, making children cry and such. But here’s another way [...]
Flash: Coontz on marriage at the NYT op-ed page
0 Comments Published November 26th, 2007 in Miscellaney.Stephanie Coontz’ op-ed piece today in The New York Times, “Taking Marriage Private,” is very much worth a read (it’s short and to the point), and absolutely worth passing on to anyone who is a bit befuddled about the history and current limitations of that strange institution, marriage.
Some choice clips (all stuff that should be [...]
To be sung to the tune of “Sound of Music” (picked up at the “hills are alive” part).
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["The Thinkers" (at SF's Palace of the Legion of Honor) from pmeidinger's Flickr photostream.]
I didn’t understand the whole Thinking Blogger Award meme thing when I first got meme’d. Hell, I barely knew what a meme was. Two very different blogger gals (one from each coast) tagged me: the first was someone I hadn’t [...]
Don’t know about the lions, but this lamb is reading
2 Comments Published November 12th, 2007 in Miscellaney, Mostly a picture, Pops.A short holiday note to say that on Veteran’s Day (which it is here in the USA), I lament, as do so many, that anyone is ever a veteran of a war, and I take a long, deep breath in sober contemplation of all who are. And I thank the dieties that my own [...]
It’s that time again, that time being the Weblog Awards time, and as one who can’t credibly say she didn’t roll up her sleeves and get all muddy in it — really, it took me weeks to wash all the mud out of my clothes — much as I am of two (or three, or [...]
Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia. 
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