“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Much like your post office or your social security, your public higher education system is something that has served you well for generations. Much like your post office or your social security, your public higher education system has, as such, become a target of corporate colonization. Much like your post office or your social security, your public higher education has been facing generations of politically driven budget cuts while facing pernicious informational attacks pretending it’s dysfunctions are the cause of public ownership, transparency and community involvement (and of course, never the budget cuts). Much like your post office or your social security, we are in a multi-generational struggle to prevent the corporate transformation of public higher education from a public service into a private profit engine.
Manny Jalonschi
(Source: politicususa.com)
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
President Barack Obama
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage.
Special Collaborative Independence Day Note: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [human beings] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator [and simply by being alive] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [As in, the happiness of marrying whoever the fuck you want to. Gay Marriage is very Constitutional.] Namiste.
(Source: charlesbivona.com)
The world has evolved since that post-WWII orgy that spawned your destructive generation. This isn’t the 1980s. Gay marriage is happening. Gay rights are happening. Because it is a human rights issue. Every rational person knows this… Why don’t you?
Charles Bivona, “Carl Paladino: A Gay Intervention”
(Source: open.salon.com)
