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[Friday
December 31st, 2010
10:53am] |
Detroit Annie, hitchhiking
by Judy Grahn
Her words pour out as if her throat were a broken
artery and her mind were cut-glass, carelessly handled.
You imagine her in a huge velvet hat with great
dangling black feathers,
but she shaves her head instead
and goes for three-day midnight walks.
Sometimes she goes down to the dock and dances
off the end of it, simply to prove her belief
that people who cannot walk on water
are phonies, or dead.
When she is cruel, she is very, very
cool and when she is kind she is lavish.
Fisherman think perhaps she's a fish, but they're all
fools. She figured out that the only way
to keep from being frozen was to
stay in motion, and long ago converted
most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she
smells danger, she spills herself all over,
like gasoline, and lights it.
She leaves the taste of salt and iron
under your tongue, but you dont mind
The common woman is as common
as the reddest wine
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| I hope I never forget this night |
[Wednesday
November 5th, 2008
4:41am] |
Tonight was amazing. I can't even properly articulate how incredible it was. That's partly to do with the fact that I'm on little sleep and (supposed to be) preparing for a chem midterm tomorrow, but also because of the immensity of... everything involved with this night.
We won Ohio. We won Iowa. We won Indiana. We won VIRGINIA! If I listed them all, you'd stop reading! I mean, that's amazing. The maps were transformed in this election. My faith in my country has never been so high. This is only a step, of course, but it's an important one. We chose progress today.
Also, I've never been so proud to attend Mount Holyoke. The energy here was incredible. There was crying, screaming (for hours!), and streaking on the green. A mob of us stormed over to the President of MHC's house chanting "Yes, we did!" and "Jojo!" (her nickname) and other anthems of the night. It was insane, wonderful, and exactly what I would have never experienced at my last college. I feel so blessed to be here right now.
I want to say so much more, but I am off to go finish reviewing chem and (with luck) get a bit of sleep. Thank you so much to everyone who voted Obama! You're exceptional.
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[Tuesday
March 18th, 2008
10:48pm] |
Silent protest on March 21st (Friday)
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[Saturday
February 9th, 2008
5:15am] |
Um.
I'm not even surprised, but... wtf?
I totally adore the commercial at the end though.
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[Wednesday
January 2nd, 2008
2:26am] |
This scares the crap out of me:
"The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility. Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government.
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion."
--Ron Paul (source)
And I don't think that this "powers to the states" thing would work. Didn't we already try that? *History class flashback*
I'm sure that that would work out GREAT for the pro-choicers in the south.
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[Saturday
July 9th, 2005
2:18pm] |
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