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May. 27th, 2012 05:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* In Egypt, voters are being given a choice between a Mubarak crony and a man who wants to impose Islamic law. Most Egyptians want neither. It's going to be ugly. Basically, there were too many splinter parties and fragmentation among the moderates wanting secular government. It's heartbreaking.
* Memorial Day speech by Joe Biden. Bring tissues: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#47572971
I never much liked Joe, but suddenly, I do.
* When I hear Mitt Romney out advocate cutting money for public schools, I get angry all over again. Imagine if just once, for say a decade, we decided to fund every school in the US the way we fund the public schools for the upper middle class. Imagine if we gave every child in the country the chance to do actual experiments in science class and the chance to reead modern, well written textbooks. Imagine if every student in every class had a chair and a desk. Imagine if the roof didn't leak and the pipes didn't clang, and there were enough lockers, pencils, and computers.
Sure, it wouldn't solve problems like the students in the poorer districts sometimes coming to school hungry, or was the case now and then with my kids where they didn't know where they were sleeping that night. Sure it won't solve the kid who can't concentrate because zir stepdad's out of jail and ze's scared for zir mother and sister's safety. Sure it wouldn't solve the concentration of kids with learning issues or limited English getting concentrated in certain skills in places with caps on funding for remediation, but it would be a big start to make sure every student got to go to a school that isn't crumbling, that has enough supplies, and enough teachers. Imagine how much better off we'd all be as a country if just once we didn't deliberately starve the schools with the most need of the funds we give freely to schools for the middle class.
Just saying.
* "The Black Church Isn't 'Uniquely Homophobic':' http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-church-isnt-that-is-uni.html
* It all helps: http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/43bb27607148012f2fdd00163e41dd5b
* Rm does a beautiful job of explaining how complex and how much variation there is in things like gender and desire: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/23760942814/ive-been-thinking-about-wade-unique-a-lot-lately-and
* The pain won today. I'm going to try one pill a day instead of two until my stomachache's stronger, I think.
* Marine Rob phoned from Anchorage. He's looking for work in the lower 48, and will be passing through here on his work search road trip. (New readers: Marine Rob is a Corvallis period friend, the last of them left. We append the "Marine" because there used also to be a Tank Rob and that saved confusion.)
* il-volpe suggested I try working with Rufus Wainwright's version of "Everybody Knows." The preliminary test looks good, and I'm thinking about looking into more Cohen covers in higher registers. Thanks to both il_volpe and jtrom for taking an interest.
* Gorgeous snake jewelry: http://ghost-plot.tumblr.com/post/23708880421/andigreyscale-0rgasms-holy-fuck-i-want-one
* Cake zoetropes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/5/26/pastry-in-motion-bonus-saturday-cool-stuff.html
* Memorial Day speech by Joe Biden. Bring tissues: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#47572971
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I never much liked Joe, but suddenly, I do.
* When I hear Mitt Romney out advocate cutting money for public schools, I get angry all over again. Imagine if just once, for say a decade, we decided to fund every school in the US the way we fund the public schools for the upper middle class. Imagine if we gave every child in the country the chance to do actual experiments in science class and the chance to reead modern, well written textbooks. Imagine if every student in every class had a chair and a desk. Imagine if the roof didn't leak and the pipes didn't clang, and there were enough lockers, pencils, and computers.
Sure, it wouldn't solve problems like the students in the poorer districts sometimes coming to school hungry, or was the case now and then with my kids where they didn't know where they were sleeping that night. Sure it won't solve the kid who can't concentrate because zir stepdad's out of jail and ze's scared for zir mother and sister's safety. Sure it wouldn't solve the concentration of kids with learning issues or limited English getting concentrated in certain skills in places with caps on funding for remediation, but it would be a big start to make sure every student got to go to a school that isn't crumbling, that has enough supplies, and enough teachers. Imagine how much better off we'd all be as a country if just once we didn't deliberately starve the schools with the most need of the funds we give freely to schools for the middle class.
Just saying.
* "The Black Church Isn't 'Uniquely Homophobic':' http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-church-isnt-that-is-uni.html
* It all helps: http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/43bb27607148012f2fdd00163e41dd5b
* Rm does a beautiful job of explaining how complex and how much variation there is in things like gender and desire: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/23760942814/ive-been-thinking-about-wade-unique-a-lot-lately-and
* The pain won today. I'm going to try one pill a day instead of two until my stomachache's stronger, I think.
* Marine Rob phoned from Anchorage. He's looking for work in the lower 48, and will be passing through here on his work search road trip. (New readers: Marine Rob is a Corvallis period friend, the last of them left. We append the "Marine" because there used also to be a Tank Rob and that saved confusion.)
* il-volpe suggested I try working with Rufus Wainwright's version of "Everybody Knows." The preliminary test looks good, and I'm thinking about looking into more Cohen covers in higher registers. Thanks to both il_volpe and jtrom for taking an interest.
* Gorgeous snake jewelry: http://ghost-plot.tumblr.com/post/23708880421/andigreyscale-0rgasms-holy-fuck-i-want-one
* Cake zoetropes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/5/26/pastry-in-motion-bonus-saturday-cool-stuff.html